If there's an accident on the track, your spotter will alert you over the radio, saying something like, "Whoa, someone spun out up ahead. Your business manager, spotter and teammate (who you'll hire later in the game) are constantly chattering at you, which at first makes for an immersive experience that gives the illusion of a real working race team. Pre-recorded dialogue is a big part of the Grid experience. Want your crew to call you "Dumptruck"? How about "Dude"? I went with the former for a few rounds, and it was funny every time I heard it.
If your parents hated you and gave you an odd name like, say, Talmadge, you're still in luck because Grid includes a list of nicknames you can choose instead. If you're lucky enough to have common name, pick your support staff will call you by that name throughout the game, praising you when you best the competition and expressing their disapproval when you slam your million-dollar prototype car into a guardrail.
#RACE DRIVER GRID THEME FULL#
After you enter your full name, the game asks you to choose a first name from a preset list. What Grid lacks in visual customization it makes up for in audio personalization. You'll probably never see a Master Chief-themed car at Le Mans, and you won't see it in Grid. To keep the races somewhat realistic looking, Codemasters had to limit the looks of the cars. For me, Grid includes just enough visual tweaking. If you've grown accustomed to the detailed livery creation system in Forza 2, you'll be underwhelmed by the design customization options in Grid. A few races later, you have the resources to create your own team, name it, brand it and choose your official colors and design, which will be applied to every car you acquire throughout the game. Finish that race and you're officially a freelance driver, hiring yourself out to the highest bidder in an effort to raise €60,000 toward a car of your own. It's into a Dodge Viper and up to 100 mph. You don't flip through a menu of cars and tracks. Once you create your character and give him or her a name and country of origin, the poor sap gets dumped directly on the track for a virgin race. Forward momentum is what Grid is all about. In Grid, as in DiRT, choosing an option feels like you're setting something in motion rather than simply clicking a button. You'll always see movement in the background, and titles shift slightly on-screen. Even in the menus, Grid is never quite static. The in-game cam works consistently well, whether you're zooming along a straightaway with a cockpit view or drifting around a hairpin in third-person. With such a great tool at my disposal, I found it disappointing that I could not save my races to my hard drive – not because I wanted to show off my driving skills, but rather because some of my wipeouts were so spectacular that I wanted to share them.Ĭodemasters paid close attention to the camera in Grid, and not just in replay. Although you can review your race as many times as you like immediately after it's over, it's gone forever once you exit the race. If you've never been one to view replays of your races in videogames, Grid's cam may just convert you. Whether you smoke the competition in a flawless GT1 race or crash magnificently in the streets of Shibuya, Grid's replay cam captures it all with intimacy and flair. Its best component is a cinematic replay camera that gives you an incomparable sense of the speed, sound and action on the racetrack. In addition to the standard driving views – cockpit, hood, bumper and two third-person – Grid has a full replay system that lets you pause, rewind, fast-forward and change views of your performance. From the opening montage, Grid sets a slick cinematic tone, and it's a theme that carries over strongly into the game itself. And it does it all with impeccable style. The result is an intense, highly focused experience that offers nearly everything a road racing game should – speed, drama, precision, competition, and a sense of hard-won progression.
#RACE DRIVER GRID THEME SKIN#
So they dusted off the DiRT's groundbreaking engine, renamed it Ego and used it as the framework for an entirely new project: Grid, an unabashedly racing-focused game that takes the skeleton of Codemasters' old TOCA/Pro Race Driver series, slips it into a high-tech skin and imbues it with a modern soul. The team behind the latter, Codemasters Racing Studio, thought there was room in the already crowded videogame racing market for yet another entry, a game that deftly straddles the line between arcade racer and hardcore simulation all wrapped up in a glitzy high-gloss package.
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