Race Driver GRID
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6.5% of people buy Race Driver GRID and Colin McRae: DiRT 2 ~ PC Games. DetailsRelease date
June 12th, 2008
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PC CD-ROM
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Top 1000
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Description
Race Driver: GRID will take players to beautifully realised and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars - new 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.
In Europe, race gamers will compete on the greatest official tracks in prestige Marques including Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani. Iconic cities across the U.S. - including San Francisco, Washington DC and Detroit and each with their own atmosphere and events - play hosts to diverse street races. Here, high-performance V8 muscle cars set the pace in aggressive closely fought pack competitions. 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. There is also the opportunity to compete in races that operate on the fringes of legality in the back streets and industrial areas of Yokohama. Features:
System Requirements:Minimum Requirements
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 3.0GHz or Athlon 64 3000+ Video Card: GeForce 6800 / Radeon X1300 or above Memory 1GB RAM. Hard Drive: 12.5 GB Hard Drive Space OS: Windows XP/Vista. (If running Windows Vista, SP1 is recommended) Recommended Requirements Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz or Athlon X2 3800+ Video Card: GeForce 8800 or Radeon X1950 Memory: 2 GB Hard Drive: 12.5 GB Hard Drive Space OS: Windows XP/Vista. (If running Windows Vista, SP1 is recommended) Related News
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"Great graphics, but really needs a wheel to play."
The graphics, and sounds are delicious, it is best played with a good speaker system turned up quite loud for best effect. The developers also made a great job on the physics, hence the crashes are almost more fun than the driving, the big thing for me however was that as I play with just the keyboard I found it just too difficult to handle the cars well enough to actually win many races even on the basic setting. Just touching the arrow keys to turn results in an oversteer. Perhaps I will hang on to the game until I get a wheel to get the most out of it, right now I can only give it a 3 at best unfortunately.
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"Very Good Game"
This game is fantastic. Physics is great, cars aren't bad, and the tracks are great.
However, online can get frustrating, as the cars can get destroyed quite easily, so you have to be careful not to hit anyone, otherwise people get very angry at you, and aims to destroy your car, making you sit out for the rest of the round!
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"Excelent wheel support"
Bleeding great game. excelent range of races, nice handling, nice damage, and its bleeding difficult at times. And despite some people claiming it doesnt support a wheel... they obviously havent used google.
out of the box, wheel support is a joke, but if you turn off driving aids - specificaly the one that tampers with understeer - you instantly get perfect steering on a wheel. (saying this with a logitech momo - meaning anyone with a g25 will have excelent support). excelent game, with an awesome range of races - it never gets dull and boring.
"Simply the best arcade racing game yet"
GRID is nothing fancy. It doesn't try to be the latest and greatest simulation. It doesn't try and use any flash, unrealistic arcade gimmicks, like blur, split-second, or mario kart! What it does do, is provide a solid and fun racing experience.
It's one innovation is "flashback". A feature which allows you to turn back time should you totally mess up a corner. This is an absolute god send! I can't even begin to remember the amount of times I've been leading a race to mess up on the very last corner. For those of you who are hardcore, this feature can be turned off, and most of the time it has limited use so you won't be rewinding for every small mistake you make. Overall it is by far the funnest racing game I have played in a long time. The pure sense of speed and power is enough to keep you smiling, especially in the faster cars. The tracks and races are short but sweet. Never long enough to bore you. The addition of a radio communications with the pit and a menu system that actually calls you by your real name is awesome! Throw in sponsorship and the ability to hire other drivers on your team, makes for one solid experience. Highly recommended.
"What Is The Difference Between Real Life And GRID?"
I'm not very much into race driving games as much as I like to shoot people and stuff. But when I bought Race Driver GRID I had my changed in a flash. Race Driver GRID has all the varieties of different types of racing. Track, Off-Road and Drifting. So there is something for every type of person. Along with these different types of racing is the realism in this game! If you crash it deals out real damage, when you drift you can actually control everything on the car AND you can actually destroy your car but don't worry it does give you a chance to rewind up until a certain point and try again. Also one thing you have to have with realism is the Graphics and the Graphics are a big fat 11/10. So if you have a nice beastly Graphics card and even if not you will still get taken for the ride of your life!
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