Product Description

As the all-new racing experience from Codemasters Studios, creators of Colin McRae: DiRTâ¢, Race Driver: GRID is all about the race. Every moment from the adrenalin rush at the start lights to the elation at the chequered flag

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1271 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters Limited
• Released on: 2008-08-08
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .29 pounds

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As the all-new racing experience from Codemasters Studios, creators of Colin McRae: DiRT™, Race Driver: GRID is all about the race. Every moment from the adrenalin rush at the start lights to the elation at the chequered flag – the tension, pressure, noise, and action.

Featuring only the most powerful race cars – current and classic, circuit and drift – players will compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete in challenging city-based competitions, through to road events and urban street races.

With races crammed with action and incident, high-impact moments will come at you thick and fast, one right after another: engine blows, tyre blow outs, tight overtaking, accidents, opponent cars flipping, spinning, collisions with other cars and trackside objects.

From humble beginnings, earning a few thousand dollars a season, build a feared and respected racing team with a multi-million dollar income and complete at dramatic race locations and dominate a multi-disciplined world of racing.

In Europe, race prestige Marques, including Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani, on the greatest official race circuits. Enter street competitions and race high-performance V8 muscle cars through iconic U.S. cities including San Francisco, Washington DC and Detroit. In the Far East, Japanese racing culture sets the tone where night races, including Drift racing, take drivers through neon illuminated cities and to outlying mountain roads.

As the antithesis of the box-ticking, plodding single-player race game, Race Driver: GRID delivers a diverse career mode in a persistent world of racing that provides each player with a unique experience as their team writes itself into racing folklore.

Customer Reviews

GRID is a solid and polished racing game for the DS
I`ve played rather a lot of driving games in my life. My favourites now are Gran Turisimo 5 -prologue (PS3), Colin McRea Dirt (Xbox360), and Mario kart for Wii and DS. Thats so far for my tastes in racing games, so the reader will know as to what I compare GRID with.
GRID for the DS is the follow-up to RaceDriver: Create and Race. This first game was good, but had several bif flaws: the cars were too slow on the wheel, the cpu-opponents were all too difficult. And even though graphics were very good on the cars, the background was boring, flat, blocky, and one could hardely see far enough ahead to take curves smoothly (unless you learned the course perfectly).
In GRID a lot of improvements have been done and the result is a very impressive non-cartoon driving game. It plays like a blending of a car-sim and an arcade racer; physics feel fine, really realistic for a portable driving game, but is easy to get into. Opponent-cars are not extremely hard to beat early in the game. Also they are not all a tiny field "up ahead", they are spread over the entire course giving players possibility for improving ranks more "little by little", than in Race Drver 1.
Graphics are very impressive for the DS. Car-3D-models are detailed and looks good. There are lightning-effects on them also, so as light and shade shifting as the car turns around, and also frontlight-effects on night-levels. Background is a huge improvement from RaceDriver, with lots of buildings, trees and signs along the courses. There are 37 tracks to explore, and also a track-designer where you can within a certain area create your own courses. This with great variation, making the game last for long time. One can also use selfmade tracks with singlecard and multicard game-sharing. When you race against a human opponent, the other cars will be cpu-driven.
The cars you choose from are licensed sports cars, and they have made the game to play very well with all 4 views: 2 views from behind the car, and two from within.
Sound is not very good though. Sound-effects are ok; your typical engine-noise, and tyres whining. If you use headphones there is stereo-effects when cars pass you by. Backgroundmusic are boring rythm-music repeating itself over and over), but thankfully you can adjust level of sound and music from 0 to full.

Summary game review:

GRAPHICS: 4.7/5.0
SOUND: 3.2/5.0
PLAYABILITY: 4.5/5.0
LASTABILITY: 4.8/5.0

OVERALL: 4.6/5.0

Closing comment: If you`ve got a DS, and want a solid non-cartoon driving game, look no further; this is quality.
If they make a third racedriver for the DS, I hope they improve background music (back in the eighties, on the Commodore 64 there were lots of brilliant music, so they`ve got no hardware-excuse), and I also hope they make bakground -graphics a little more arcade-like (everybody likes to race in idyllic scenery! Car-glam someone?).

Great (serious) racer for the DS!!!
I bought this game at the weekend and got to say i agree with the other reviewer here, it's a fantastic little racer and i'm not disappointed one bit.
My girlfriend owns the DS, and i just wanted a game that was a bit more 'serious' for once and not cartoony or involved cooking, stroking dogs or training my brain. I wanted something i could just pick up and play, a racer and adult game play.
I have to say that this game is great, considering its on the DS, Codemasters have done a good job of squeezing everything they could onto the little cartridge! The graphics are more like a PS1 game, the racing itself is good and there's an incredible amount of depth to the game considering. The top screen holds the action, whilst the bottom shows the top down circuit view and car damage, and yes you can damage your engine, tyres and handling.
The circuits themselves whilst obviously not up to console detail, hold enough to make you feel like you're on a racing circuit and also move along at quite a fair old rate, there is also enough difference between car models to notice when you're in a GT or a BMW.
Races involve the 3 main regions, America, Europe and Japan and there are several tracks in each location. Bung in a great map/circuit creation utility and you have quite a lot to keep you going. Some of the maps you creat can be quite intricate, with straights, curves, scenery.
Also it has wifi multiplay so you can play online (if you can find a competitor) and also across a DS single shared game network for up to 4 players.
A great game, underrated and probably missed by a lot of people, but if like me you're fed up with the dross on the DS and want a bit more of a proper 'game', like racing and just want to pick up and play then this is the game for you. 9 out of 10 for Codemasters!

Best racing game for the DS that you can get
I have pretty much all of the racing games that you can get for the DS and this is the best by far in gameplay, graphics, control, AI etc. GET THIS GAME NOW, and you won't want to play any other racers for thbe DS ever again. This is great for beginners and experts equally. I lOVE IT and so will youj - give it a try.