After going through GRID, GRID2 and GRID: Autosport (just a few hours) it's time to write some review about them, lets start with this one.
So I'm absolutely going to rate 10/10 for this game, it's the best racing game I've ever played. Codmasters made a good balance between a racing simulator and a normal arcade driving game. It's easy to get start with like the NFS franchise, but a little more difficult than that because you'd find out that driving flat out will ruin your car. And by this way, it makes you to race with skills. You'll learn to brake before corners, you'll learn to drive in efficient racing lines, you'll learn to avoid contact with your compe*****s to matain the performance of your car. This is a game where you'll achieve your dream of being a pro race driver. By the way NFS makes it possible for you to drive fancy cars, go outlaws and feel good, it's great too.
Another thing to make you feel like a pro was the 24h Le Mans. They compact the real time 24h into 12min in the career mode, and made a day and night shift for it, which looked so great. Besides this compact version of 24h you can choose for 24min to even real time 24h in race day mode. And you can test drive any of your car. Just driving in Nürburgring, trying to go a perfect run and improving the lap time is a great fun for me.
GRID has the best cockpit view out of the two. Why two? Because GRID2 doesn't have a cockpit view, I'd leave that to the review of GRID2. So there were so many datails in the cockpit, and it's live, the dashboard and the gear changing signal are really doing what they should be doing. It feels just like drving in a real race car. And the damage had a lot of details too, the damges are taken by parts. Steering, suspension and so on, and the lead to different problem in your driving.
And actually there are downsides in this game. Your team mate was acting like a retard. If it drives badly it'll be staying in the back of the pack through out the race and get your team beaten by Ravenwest. But if he's driving great, like Tom Rockford (the best I found in the game) you may find, he'll bump you, block you and spin you out. Maybe codemasters thought those bots were driving ♥♥♥♥ so they sent you a "team mate" to disturb you and make things more challenging. Yeah, by spinning me out and pull me straight from the 1st place down to the last but one (crashed) in the last one minute of Le Mans. I should have fired him.
Your team mate was a retard, but wait, there's a bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the track. Every first corner of the track, if you're the last of the pack, trust me, that takes more than skills to get out of there in one piece. And after the first corner, you still got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to pass on the way. They care nothing about your lines. For example if you go parallel with one car through the corner and you're the inside one and inccidently you're on his line, he 'll definitely crash on you to get on his line. Two results for this, you spin out and he goes out, or the two cars stick together and disabling the turning of each other then head for the wall. I can remember in one race, going clockwise in Okutama, GRID position in 7th, and the first corner made me freak out.
But this game is still great, for a race drving gamer or for those who want to change a flavor from arcade drving game to a race simulator. And it's not expensive, really worth buying.