No map is displayed, so it’s all about keeping an eye out for what is coming. These events take the track layout and dynamically alter the route you drive through, making it different each time you race in this event type. LiveRoutes is Codemasters newly implemented course changer and was one of the big bullet points in the game’s pre-release marketing. It’s like GRID 2 blows its load too early before coming to a finish in season five.Įven the newly advertised LiveRoutes feature doesn’t do much to compensate for the feeling of déjà vu. By the time season four comes around, the player has already seen every location and event type, and the only thing the game can do is switch the lights off for some nighttime racing. It would have been much better to have more locations from America featured, instead of the four featured – California, Miami, Chicago, and Indianapolis – with slight modifications to them. By the time I was getting to the end of season one, I was a little bored of racing in America, due to the sheer lack of different tracks. It’s fantastic that the game is throwing a varied amount of events at the player, but one problem I had was that you spend too long racing in the same location. Along the way you’ll also get to participate in elimination races and overtake challenges. For example, the first season is set in America and involves racing from point A to point B, but then you move to season three, which is set in Asia and includes events like Touge and Drifting. Little videos accompany the career mode to build this story up, but in reality, it’s nothing more than a piece of media – a fancy cover – to build the atmosphere and setting as the organisation gets larger throughout GRID 2’s five seasons.Īn assortment of events populate each season in GRID 2. How do you do this? By beating all the other rivals around the world. From there, you become the material to promote WSR across the world and are given the challenge to bring more people to the sport.
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In regards to GRID 2, it’s about one American billionaire called Patrick Callahan, who is launching a new franchise – World Series Racing (WSR) – and has noticed your dazzling skills in the game’s opening introduction race. Longtime fans of Codemasters’ racing games might remember the TOCA Race Driver series implementing the same idea. GRID 2 tries to bring a sort of story element to its career progression. Finally, we no longer have to wait, as GRID 2 is here, but it is a title that has some minor design flaws and also plays it safer than what its predecessor did back in 2008. Codemasters were seemingly ignoring the franchise in favour of pumping out Dirt games ( Dirt 2, Dirt 3 and Dirt: Showdown) and their recent wave of great F1 titles. It’s crazy to think that such a well-received game had to make its fans wait five years to get a sequel.
We must not forget that GRID was solely responsible for the fantastic idea of being able to rewind back a few seconds to correct a mistake in a race, thanks to its Flashback mechanic, which has made its way into other Codemasters racing games and even Microsoft’s Forza franchise. GRID was filled with variety and excitement, and it ended up being an addictive track race that looked gorgeous at its time of release. Looking back at the huge catalogue of racing games that came out in the 7 th generation of console gaming, I would say that Codemasters’ original GRID was certainly up there as one of my favourites.
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