GRID review

Overall-9/10

Gameplay-8/10
Good
-great balance between realistic driving sim and arcade action
-realistic damage model and effect on your car performance
-improved car physics
-faster gui compared to DIRT, but still not good enough..
Fugly
-no mouse control in main menu

Visuals-9/10
Good
-Best looking racing game out there
-Massive improvement over last year DIRT engine
-day/night cycle for 24hr le mans
-crowd scream when a car hit the barricade!!
-Perform extremely well with current gen gpu with all the eye candy on
Fugly
-no adjustable motion blur magnitude
-8x msaa still cant remove all the jaggies at native resolution

When you think GRID is some low budget sequel to DIRT, you are wrong.Within a short period of 1 year, Codemaster tweak the core gameplay, upgraded visual engine and offer a experience vastly different from DIRT.The only resemblance is over-the-top GUI that loads rather sluggishly even though it has been reduced TREMENDOUSLY,but all i want is a clean,simple and lagfree gui for my main menu...The mouseless navigation is back too, which is rather irritating and make it feel like a cheap console port.
The gameplay this time round is a rather healthy balance between hardcore driving sim and arcade racing but concentrate on race tracks and cars only.The driving physics is fixed with no more "ice skiing" feeling and the crash looks less gravity defying.The car damage model is less exaggerated , so if you love rampaging with a roofless car in DIRT(eg. terminator 3), GRID isnt a game for you.
Since i dont think Burnout PC will be gold this year and the pathetic record for the annual NeedForSpeed these recent years, this may be the racing game of the year.So unless the only thing you do in gaming is gun down those pesky nazi or terrorist ,dont miss this.

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