GRID 2

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I waited years for Grid 2. Grid 1 was my favorite racing game on any system for it's mix of excellent gameplay and physics. Grid 2 is a big letdown. It's just your typical arcade racer. The story is very limiting and boring, as are the cars.

The graphics are nice, but the physics ruin the entire experience. The in-game commentator says it all... "Try to maintain your speed round this next corner by drifting." Uggh. You literally have to do what the game suggests and defy the laws of physics and motorsports to compete with the other cars. Thus, the entire point of this racing game is destroyed and the experience is disheartening and dull.

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Just to give some background I've been playing Codemasters games since Colin McRae Dirt and have almost always enjoyed them. I don't really play their games for an in-depth simulation experience; it's usually more like I have a little time to kill and want to have some fun flogging a car around a track or through a rally course.

I thought the original GRID was really fun and have been playing it again recently while waiting for this one to come out. I've had this game pre-ordered for months and was really looking forward to playing it...when I finally got hold of it I played it for a little over an hour before getting bored and finding something else to do.

So what's wrong with it you ask? It seems like the accounting department was calling most of the shots. They cut out the cockpit view saying that nobody used it and could spend their time better elsewhere. For starters it sounds like "95% of players never use it" is a number they just pulled out of thin air, and I don't really see where all of that time "better spent elsewhere" was spent. For a sequel to a game that came out five years ago, it doesn't feel really evolved beyond the original. Actually, considering the things they cut out, it's less of a game than the original.

All in all, it's not a bad game and there's nothing about it that's a deal-killer...but it does feel like it could have been a much better game than it is if more time and effort was put into making it.

Edit: This game actually gets worse as you progress through it; the shoddy physics engine makes driving every one of the more advanced cars nearly impossible. If cars actually handled the way this game portrays them, 100% of super-car owners would be dead.

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load times are way too long. had to skip over a event because it would not load in season two. graphics are nice but not really spectacular. i did like the different types of races it had. online play is good. all in all i'd say not a bad game, but would not recommend paying full price (I bought it pre-order) it's a 20 to 30 dollar game.

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The gaming is good but if you are really into hardcore racing, don't buy this you're better off with GT5 or GT6, the handling is kinda skirmish and sometimes the cars are too hard to control, but either way it's fun and exciting!!

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5 years ago, a few of my friends talked me into getting a ps3 to race with them on Grid 1. It is still the best racing game i have ever played and needless to say, I had VERY high expectations for this game. If you cant tell by the 2 stars I'm giving it, they were not even close to being met(Also after i hit 341 races online and nearly had completed the single player, a glitch in the game turned my SAVED DATA CORRUPTED AND CODEMASTERS IS NOT EVEN ATTEMPTING TO PATCH IT YET!!! This has happened to SEVERAL people so... im begging people to wait to buy or not even bother wasting money on it.)

Positives

-Its a Codemasters game.

-Graphics are amazing.(Wrecks are insane.)

-Decent selection of cars.

-Single player experience was not too short and not too long.

The first week I had the game I thoroughly enjoyed it. Online was competitive and fun with a decent amount of cars to customize(visual and 3 types of performance upgrades.. no tuning what so ever.) and a level system that goes up to 30. The game actually has the perfect money system in place to where the better you race, the more you level up and more cars you get(even if your not that good you still can level up at a decent rate) I also thought the addition of the Live Routes game-mode was excellent, even if it had repetitive sections, you still had no idea what was coming next and it evened the field up. Track selection is also a bonus here as there is a good amount to choose from. Oh and the best part of the game is probably the graphics/damage system. You can definitely see an upgrade to it since dirt showdown

Negatives

-NO COCKPIT VIEW

-No demo derby

-"Cutting Corner" system is incredibly annoying

-You have to drift... every... corner...

-No group vote to kick players online

-To much arcade, Not enough sim(first grid was perfect combination)

-Getting stuck in the loading screen(has happened at least 10 times)

-The First corner in every online race when collisions are on.

The second week is when everything started going down hill for me. It took me 30 minutes one day to get in a race without the host kicking me out because i was one or two levels above them(Most of the time I had even been in less races than them!).

There were several occasions where I would lose connections to codemasters servers and have to back out of the game and get back in it in order to play online. The story in the single player mode gets repetitive and boring(It is a racing game though so thats to expect). Offline split screen is a pain, you cant customize the player 2 car without going back to the main screen and doing it to one of your season cars. I'll also mention there are glitches like going under the track and getting frozen in load screens but im sure those will get patched eventually. My biggest complaint though is the one aforementioned above, about how on the ps3 version when your saved data gets to 967kb.. itll become corrupt and you'll LOSE EVERYTHING. From what I've read in forums it happens often and... the most amazing part about it is codemaster isnt doing anything to fix it.

So at this point your probably asking yourself, "If this game is so terrible, why did this guy bother playing it for a month?". I have been in a bit of denial about the whole thing cause I love codemaster's games since colin mcrae rally games on the ps1, and im sure ill be purchasing dirt 4, but I really hoped they would patch it and it took having my entire game deleted to realize I wasted $60 on it.