Is Race Driver: Grid Out?

[mikek75]

Just loaded the full game up, takes an age to install but the wait is well worthwhile! The handling seems to have imoroved from the demo, and there appears to be a lot of depth to the game. Well impressed, makes me proud to be British, LOL!

 

[Megasty]

Did you actually buy from CM and downloaded the game??

Yeah, the DL link was from a CM server. The game overall performs best with a G25 although driver game seem to be my forte anyway but the Tokyo drift races are completely fecked up. The sounds are screwed & the replays slow my pc to a crawl. I re-installed the game & the same thing happened. I guess they'll fix it with a patch.

 

[craigo]

will it work with my logitech momo?

 

[Megasty]

will it work with my logitech momo?

Yeah, I tried it with both the red & black versions, but the G25 is still the best by far

 

[Widjaja]

According to my brother , this game performs 100% better than DiRT due to the sound engine actually working properly, so no stutters during multi-car events.

I just wish they could implement this into DiRT as a patch.

BTW:-most us people in the southern hemisphere are having a moan about no V8Supercars this time round.

Personally I don't care due to the drifting in GRID.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

so this was the upgrade to toca race car driver?

if so a big boo to the game .. i prefer toca race car driver 3

 

[Widjaja]

so this was the upgrade to toca race car driver?

if so a big boo to the game .. i prefer toca race car driver 3

Yes this is the new Race Driver.
Just remembered the lack of tracks this time around and irritating commentary like DiRT.
No Bathurst.
Well at least codemasters has the sound coding right this time around and the damage modelling is supposed to be better than DiRT.

Ohwell back to COD4.

 

[newconroer]

You should have done that. I guess too many folks from the US did it & overloaded their servers. I was apart of the server destruction too The weird thing is that they are going to send me the copy of the game with the T-shirt but I don't care

The game is beautiful & I ran it completely maxed out @ 1920x1200. The physics realism of the cars are out of this world. You can keep a straight line with the car but if you don't brake at exactly when that annoying orange-to-red light in the map start flashing you'll be headed for spin city. I won't give too much away but the demolition derby is a joke. All you have to do is stay toward the rear & let the other cars destroy each other - no matter what difficulty you put it on

Erm, the demolition derby is a nice and fun alternative to whatever else it offers. You get to combine muscle, with body roll, with drifting and dare-devil driving. If anything, it's one thing they got right.

The rest of the game is eye candy and little else:

You have a typical novice to rookie to pro to etc. storyline.
You can't adjust car settings.
There's no qualifying sessions.
The game is WAY too easy.
The AI is 'bleh.'
The cars stick to the ground too well. You can take corners way beyond a realistic speed and get away with it.
The Japanese cars all seem to have extremely slick tires and have a tendancy to automatically start drifting; of which is also way too easy to do.
The online mode lacks AI cars...imagine that...what's new.

It looks good, it sounds ok, it leaves a lot to be desired though.

It's somewhere between a modern Need For Speed game, and GTR2 or Race 2007. Where it plays and looks better than the former, but handles and offers less than the latter.




If you want to 'test' how absurdly weak the game is: find someone who's really good at GTR2, stick them in GRID and watch that they adapt quickly and are pretty good, but probably have a tendancy to drive more realistic than yourself, and therefore you can beat them. Then pit yourself vs. them in GTR2, and they'll wipe the floor with you.


Though, at least Funcom has offered up a decent product for once.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

the game is pretty much slap on, slap off. From what I've observed so far it's really a game intended for console users. The game lacks very basic PC elements:
-mouse support for navigating menus
-One user said they will not support TrackIR as they did in Dirt
-Chat mode is not part of the lobby. It's some sort of slide in on screen display. A chime will infor, you when users are exiting/entering the server or texting.
-NO VOIP for online play
-Cannot chat while spectating a race
-GFW title that has no profile for the 360 wireless wheel for the PC
-NO dedicated servers
-Remapping of keys may not allow you to navigate the menu screens. Remember there is no mouse support

And we are just getting started here...

 

[xu^]

Who said it was a serious simulation ?

ive had more fun with Grid than i ever did with GTR2 ,yes it has its faults but playability isnt 1 of them as it isnt marketed as a Simulation ,more of an arcade/Sim which its completely different

obv if you tried Grid hoping for the latest Sim/GTR2 killer u picked the wrong game,Codemasters have never made proper "Sims" and probably never will, I for one find it a whole lot more fun to play than the GTR's ,GTL's ,GPL's.

No need to slate it cos it isnt a serious Sim game.

 

[selway89]

Ive been having a great time with the demo and my 360 pad. Only just got the pad so back playing Dirt and my races ar 10x better, but it has to be noted that grid does run smoother.

 

[newconroer]

Sure there is Xubidoo.

Why do developers create immersive worlds with high detailed 'realistc' visuals and sound, yet dish out unreaslitic physics?

It's why modern day 'war' FPS games are a laughing matter. COD4 looked pretty good, made you think 'oh shit, this might be the closest I ever get to real combat!' and then plays like utter ass and makes anyone who's handled a real assault rifle just hang their head in disbelief.

Leave the 'arcade' games for weaklings to the teenagers and console owners.

Gameplay has taken second seat too long because of this graphics race.



Games with little gameplay get boring fast; sorry not worth my $60. GTR2 wasn't 'fun' for you because you probably couldn't handle it.

Of course we should 'slate' it, because developers are lead by moronic corporate bozos who wouldn't know a good game if it bit their nuts off.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

It's down right sad when a game for the PC doesn't have mouse support or VOIP for online play. If it is a GFW why isn't that a mandatory requirement :shadedshu

 

[Megasty]

Erm, the demolition derby is a nice and fun alternative to whatever else it offers. You get to combine muscle, with body roll, with drifting and dare-devil driving. If anything, it's one thing they got right.

The rest of the game is eye candy and little else:

You have a typical novice to rookie to pro to etc. storyline.
You can't adjust car settings.
There's no qualifying sessions.
The game is WAY too easy.
The AI is 'bleh.'
The cars stick to the ground too well. You can take corners way beyond a realistic speed and get away with it.
The Japanese cars all seem to have extremely slick tires and have a tendancy to automatically start drifting; of which is also way too easy to do.
The online mode lacks AI cars...imagine that...what's new.

It looks good, it sounds ok, it leaves a lot to be desired though.

It's somewhere between a modern Need For Speed game, and GTR2 or Race 2007. Where it plays and looks better than the former, but handles and offers less than the latter.




If you want to 'test' how absurdly weak the game is: find someone who's really good at GTR2, stick them in GRID and watch that they adapt quickly and are pretty good, but probably have a tendancy to drive more realistic than yourself, and therefore you can beat them. Then pit yourself vs. them in GTR2, and they'll wipe the floor with you.


Though, at least Funcom has offered up a decent product for once.

The game is terribly easy, but then again so was GTR2 I can't play it on anything but Extreme. They made the drifting childsplay because of the silly combos, hell I managed a 2,000,000 just by going 90° in a u-curve. The toughest race is the Le Mans LPMS1 or whatever its suppose to be - but I do use a G25 which makes the darn crap even easier anyway

There was a bit of a learning period in GTR2 but there was none in this one. The AIs spin out too much & cause too many accident for normal street races - its like they don't know what the GD brakes are. But the demo derby is funny as hell when you see the idiots destroy each other in mid-air at the intersections

 

[xu^]

GTR 2 wasnt fun simply because it was Boring.. yes i can handle it thankyou ,typical response really,becasue i dont think its the dogs danglies it means i cant handle it/no good at it ? lol

you say why do developers include fancy gfx and whatnot then ruin it with unrealsitics physics, would you believe that more ppl prefer it that way than ultra realistic(and tbh no1 on here can say GTR2 is realistic as theyve never raced a GTR car) and imo rather boring.

granted the game has a lot of good points but so does Grid ,all i can say is if you think the game is so rubbish why are you wasting your time on a thread thats dedicated to Grid?
i dont go wasting my time on Sim forums trying to teel the players how rubbish there fav game is

Not every1 wants to spend a fortune on a steering wheel ,im quite happy tearing rnd the track using a gamepad,and so far its been a blast
I bought GTR2 on release but i havnt pld it all recently ,so its sitting on a shelf gathering dust.

Your probably in the minority as far as your opinion of Grid goes,that doesnt make it a bad game tho ,you just like something different thats all.

ive pld all of simbins games and while they are for the most part pretty good,i tend to get bored of them,not because they r 2 hard but they are so monotonous to play.

each to his own

 

[newconroer]

Xubidoo,

"You" was generally speaking.

Your comment about having realistic gameplay over realistic graphics is a bit hard to diagnose. The gaming community has been affected by the graphics race. Which is a huge issue. Yet there are many people who respect two positions:

1) Gameplay was important, and while visuals weren't impressive, you didn't care, because you were actually PLAYING and not just breezing through pretty looking stuff only to have it end in six or eight hours, because it was so poorly lacking gameplay elements of any noteworthy value.

2) Not everyone can be a Navy seal, a professional race car driver, a commander of a space fleet of ships, a warrior in Middle Earth etc. Part of playing the game is like reading a book, you take on that roll. However with a book, you're free to use the best 'computer' of all time, to render your sights and your sounds - the human brain. Games offer us less and less immersion because they don't have an appropriate balance of gameplay and graphics.

I don't understand why the two have become so exclusive.


As for wasting my time. I don't find commenting based on first-hand experience to be wasting time. If it helps others get an understanding of what or what not to expect in a product, then the goal is achieved.
Likewise, spouting a bunch of hype or only touching on the good points of a product is a sure way to mis-lead people. I could reverse the question on you.

You are right, I am in the minority, and that's a shame, because if my type were in the majority, we'd have fewer gaming titles, yet they'd be more enjoyabe, have greater longevity, and be closer to actually worth the money you paid for them. We'd also have less of a whiny, weak and wattered down gaming consumer base, whos demographics dictate the direction corporate bozos take software titles.


If Grid was half as difficult, half as flexible and half as in depth, it wouldn't be a worse off game; it wouldn't be any less fun.

It would simply be better.

Grid is just another example of a product released to sell well into an unfortunatley fast growing market and that is one of 'I want it to look and sound cool, so I feel I'm there, yet I don't want it to be difficult!'

 

[mikek75]

From what I've seen of GRID (only got it yesterday) I think its a cracking game. Note the use of the word "game", not "simulation"! I don't think its too easy at all, especially if you up the difficulty. Sure, the physics are leaning to the arcade side, but Simbins games are too unforgiving IMO. Modern tyres/suspension give much more grip than is "simulated" in GTR2. I knew what to expect from GRID from Codemasters previous titles, and therefore was not disappointed by any means. Its fast, furious fun. I'm a Heavy Goods Vehicle driver, and GRID is just what I need after a day of crawling along traffic congested roads.

 

[oli_ramsay]

How do you get USB controllers to work with this game? I swear I got it to work in the demo... Just can't remember what I did lol!

 

[Widjaja]

Everytime someone has to say it's not realistic.
V8 Supercars 3 wasn't realistic either which was made in 05'.

So when people buy a Codemasters game they should expect a fun arcade style experoence and not realistc handling simulation.

 

[Megasty]

I actually find the non-realistic car physics a bit refreshing. All I want is for the game to have a setting that's a little challenging & this game definitely has it in the extreme mode. Hell, I can wear myself out if I play on that for too long. I'm mostly 'old school' when it comes to racing games but these newer games with the super detailed cars, damage, scenery, etc. are really starting to catch my eye.

 

[Triprift]

For anyone whos interested its now available for 40 bucks on Steam

 

[tkpenalty]

What happened to the V8 Supercars

 

[Widjaja]

What happened to the V8 Supercars

This is it.
Racer Driver is now GRID.
There was a bit of a stink due to GRID replacing V8 Supercars.
I'm a bit disappointed there is no Bathurst.

 

[jbunch07]

anyone played this game?
im thinking about getting it but cant decide yet?
it looks nice though, graphically anyway...

 

[xu^]

anyone played this game?
im thinking about getting it but cant decide yet?
it looks nice though, graphically anyway...

For me Grid is the best race ive pld in the last couple of years tbh

but it depends if your on the sim side of things or the arcadey side.

if your after an out and out simulation then dont bother ,but if u liked other Codies games then buy it now,not had so much fun in ages playing a racer.