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It's not helped, either, by Grid's season pass where some of the extra content that would make this feel less barren is surely waiting. To get to the Grid World Series, where old enemies Ravenwest await, you'll have to work through four of the seven tiers, your progress often slowed as you grind out cash for a required car. Maybe it's because there's a relative dearth of events - some 13 locations are on offer here, as opposed to the original's 15 - with the problem exacerbated by the grind of the career mode.
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To call it functional is generous, too - play through the lattice of events, split across various motorsport tiers, and to manage your team and recruit drivers you'll have to head all the way out to a screen that's, for some unfathomable reason, kept separate from the career menu. After all the dazzle of the original Grid's virtual garage this new one is merely functional, and it doesn't offer up much either. Maybe it's because the old bombast has been toned down for the front-end. Compared to its predecessor, this can feel like a slim thing. There are a few misgivings to overcome before you find yourself at that conclusion, though. There are moments, when you're racing under Shanghai neon, where this Grid gives off serious Ridge Racer Type 4 vibes, and this particular arcade racer is good enough that it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Namco's classic. This is, quite simply, a return to the kind of elbows-out arcade racing that's been almost entirely absent this generation, and it's delivered with a level of finesse and flair of a studio that's rediscovered its A-game and a little more besides. What, exactly, is it? A remake? A reboot? Or something else entirely? In fact, it's something much more straightforward, and much more satisfying than any of the murkiness around that name might suggest. And now, five years later we have this, the plainly monikered Grid.
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Quick-fire follow-up Grid Autosport made a decent if understandably modest attempt to return the series to its roots.
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Availability: Out October 11th on PC, Xbox One and PS4.This, though, was a more fantastical take on motorsport, with a few extra bulges under the bonnet and an American twang that only became even more pronounced with 2013's disappointing sequel - a sort of Michael Bay does motorsport affair that never really seemed sure of what exactly it wanted to be. The name does it no favours at all. Back when the first Grid launched, it had the Race Driver appendage, marking it out as a successor of sorts to Codemasters' long-running, much-loved series, itself with foundations in the even more beloved brace of TOCA games for the original PlayStation. A masterly racer that gets to the very essence of motorsport's magic.