Product ReviewsGRID (Microsoft Xbox 360, 2008)

Grid is a heck of a classy arcade racing game!

Codemasters' Race Driver series has long put the emphasis on making the driver, not the cars, the stars of the show. Grid is the spiritual successor to this series, and though it still offers you the chance to travel the world as a racing driver, the emphasis is firmly back on the racing itself. Taking in a wide range of international venues and racing disciplines, Grid's career mode puts you in the shoes of a top racing driver. You'll freelance as a driver for other teams, form your own team, and negotiate sponsorship contracts so you can buy new vehicles. In addition, Grid has a highly accessible 12-player online mode, a new flashback feature to rewind the action after devastating crashes or costly mistakes, and a novel approach to trading vehicles. It may lack basic features such as adjustable weather and split-screen multiplayer, but Grid still has enough fresh ideas to make it a notable entry in the racing genre.

Grid splits its racing between three geographical locations, with Europe, the US, and Japan each presenting an assortment of racing styles. Europe features track-based racing, with famous locations such as the Nurburgring, Donington Park, and Le Mans on its roster. Europe also boasts a city track in Milan, but it's the US that is more focused on street racing with courses in Washington, San Francisco, Detroit, and more. Japan is clearly influenced by underground street racing and has short, winding tracks that are perfect for drifting around. Each of these locations demands different vehicles; Europe features touring and GT cars, the US has muscle cars such as Vipers and Mustangs, and in Japan you get to drive tricked-out Nissans and Subarus.

The main aim of the Grid World mode is to increase your reputation as a driver and earn money to buy new vehicles. You'll be paid for winning races, playing at harder difficulty levels, earning sponsor bonuses and being part of a winning team. As with many racing games, you need a selection of vehicle types to enter different racing events, and you can buy cars either brand-new or secondhand on eBay Motors. It's a rare example of in-game advertising done right: Some pre-owned motors run the risk of being too banged up, whereas others have proved themselves capable of winning races previously. One thing that Grid doesn't focus on is upgrading vehicle components; instead of buying new engines, you just sell your old banger and buy something better.Read full review...

GRID Burns Out It's Competition.

Pros:
The game plays really smoothly, textures and graphics are outstanding, game offers in car driving view complete with character shifting, realism is great and the difficulties actually offer a challenge, the tracks are great and fun. Easy but steep learning curve. Collisions are AMAZING and fun.

Cons:
Story mode isn't extensive as it could be. Not much to the bulk of the car itself. Won't find anything like Gran Turismo where you might be able to tweak things under the hood, the car feels unrealistic when at a complete stop and accelerating quickly your car will likely spin out VERY easily.

Rated Good, Not Excellent because it lacks an in-depth story and car customization, and handling feels unrealistic when at a complete stop only.Read full review...

Competes with Forza Very Well! Great Game!

The graphics are spectacular and the game overall looks amazing (from the fans cheering you on, to the cars, to the mind-bending tracks). It competes very well with Forza in the graphics category. But I think Grid offers better tracks.

If you play with a steering wheel, it is a lot funner! It makes the game 10x better than using the controller.

The game is a bit short for a racing game. I was expecting something long and drawn out like Forza, but Grid is a pretty short racing simulation. There is a lot you can do besides the career that might boost some more playing time, but head-to-head (same system) racing does not exist for Grid. However, if you have a buddy with an Xbox 360, you can hook up system link and battle your friends.

Forza and Grid are two completely different games. Forza is the ultimate, realistic, first-hand racing game that takes real-life racing and puts it in your hands. You have a bit more freedom in Grid in the sense that you get to take part in very fun drift events, togue races, and other popular auto culture that takes place today. Both games are great in different ways! Overall, here are the scores:

Graphics: 5/5
Playability: 5/5 (with steering wheel)
Playability: 4/5 (without steering wheel)
Story: 5/5
Length: 3/5
Ease: 5/5 (not a very big learning curve, just jump in and race; however, drifting will take a few days to perfect)
Sound: 5/5

It is worth $60 bucks. Lots to do, lots to learn, and will have fun on every single race (at a competitive difficulty level). If you liked Forza, you will probably like this game just as much, if not more.Read full review...

Great game, but no customizations on your car.

This game is not for the purists race gamers, if you want to play a race game with a good balance between the excitements of a race and don't want to bother about customizing your car, you will love this game.

Great graphics and sound, the playback feature can be very useful, the career mode is well designed it let's you drive faster cars at start, it's possible for you to drive different and faster cars through the "driver offer" races. I'm not a guy who wants to spend more time customizing the car for each track than racing, that's why I'm very pleased and satisfied with this game, but I think that some engine, transmission and tires upgrades would be welcome.

Playing online will be fun, except when you get piled every corner and the annoying fact that doesn't take too much to make cars slide around, one tap from an opposing car and you are spinning out of control, seems that your car loose all its traction when hit, doesn't matter how soft the hit is.

If you look for a good arcade of this genre, this game is a great choice.Read full review...

Xbox 360 Grid - TOCA Race Driver 4 PGR3 NFS Prostreet

I just expreienced the brown screen of death and have to start all over. I downloaded the Xbox update after reading what it patched. Apparently it didn't fix the well known problem of the game freezing in the middle of a race. Luckily there's no achievement for completing the 24 hours of LeMans.

Ok, this game is definately like the fast paced arcade style PGR's and NFS Prostreet. Those games are fun but I dislike starting from the rear with no pre qualify or practice sessions. So to get to the front you just have to effectively keep ramming every car. The cars also have major understeer. The trick to pointing the nose in the right direction is pulling the e-brake and keeping the revs high by downshifting hard while corning.

I initally played the demo and I kept wondering why the ghost car was drifting and pulling off insane lap times. Now that I know the physics of the game, it's kinda fun only because I like driving. After already obtaining 19 achievements in the first few hours, I think I'll keep playing. But I do get tired of the "ketchup" system. Extremely slow cars are left behind but somehow get a shot of nitrous to catch up. But what really keep me playing are the Touge events and drifting, and I heard the F3 racing is amazing.Read full review...

great game .. still play it !!

excellent game ! even though they is better games out there now ! over all it is great ! the graffics! the cars .. well so many to talk about .. you can adjust evertthing on the car from the ratio .. to braking .. over steer..and so on .what is really nice is that when you crash .. you can rewind that part of the race. you really have to learn to use the brakes and the ebrakes in this game .. a great game for all ages !! if you love car this is the game for you!!Read full review...

Good game, lots of fun

Grid is a good fun game for all ages. If you like challenging driving and racing games then Grid will definitely be a game for you.

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Grid: Worth the play if you love Race Car Driver!

Codemasters has done it again. This time they have made a great game adding to their series of Race Car Driver games. Let's review it and see just how much fun this game is. It is very well made, but all great games has its flaws, lucklily this one is very minimal.

Pros:
If you love Race Car Driver games made by Codemasters than you are sure to love this game. The graphics and gameplay are awesome. I am a fan of the Need for Speed games and I love to beable to customize my cars, but this is a nice change that you aren't necessarily able to "pimp" your ride. The game play is nice and doesn't get extremely repeatative. The online play is extremely fun and there is never a dull moment. There are plenty of people playing this game online so there are always games that you can join.

Cons:
As I stated above it is kind of disappointing that you can't customize your own vehicles, however this isn't a huge flaw and most Codemaster racing games are all built around this type of system. You buy the vehicle and race it, because when it comes down to it would u rather race your car more or just stare at a screen trying to decide which decal looks better? I ran into an issue during one race where even though I was driving the right direction it said I wasn't, I can't say its a flaw, it was more of a glitch because since then it has never occurred again during gameplay. I wish there was a split screen 2 player, but the graphics are pretty intensive that I can see why you need a whole screen to yourself.

Final Words:
In conclusion this is an excellent game, definitely worth the money and you won't be disappointed. I have reviewed many games and items on ebay and top 10,000 reviewer on ebay. You can trust my judgement. Bottom line, get the game its awesome, especially if you love racing games!Read full review...

Grid for 360

I decided to buy it because I love car games and cars in general. I'm really impressed by the graphics and the realism of how the cars handle. This is a racing game based off of track only with no free roaming of any sort. That was my only problem with it because I'm so used to the Need for Speed series and I was hoping for something along those lines to be in this game but it was misconceiving. You can only race on track and there's almost no customization at all. But overall I would say it's a fairly decent game because it is challenging and has many different cars which you can obtain throughout the game. I'd give renting it a shot first before you make a final decision to buy it.Read full review...

Exceeded expectations

I was worried about the lack of car choices and track choices, but the gameplay has left nothing wanting. The main choice is in game modes. There are so many modes and they are all so unique, and so good. I've been playing for probably 30 hours and still haven't tried them all. The career progression is very rewarding and fun. The actual racing is phenominal. I would recommend to anyone interested.

It takes a while to get used to the controls, but now other racers feel like they are lacking in physics and their damage systems feel 10 years out of date compared to grid and dirt. Great to play on Microsoft wireless racing wheel as well, I started setting new personal best laps when I got the wheel.Read full review...