Last year Codemasters teamed up with Collin McRae to create DiRT, a racing game that was a great success. Combining fun races with stunning visuals, DiRT was worthy in any racing fans collection. It's been a year, and during that time Codemasters has been working on its next next-gen racer-Grid. Using the graphical engine powering DiRT and yet again putting the emphasis on the actual racing, rather than the cars or customization elements found in games like Forza 2 or Need for Speed, Grid tackles it's rivals head on and delivers one of the best racing games on the system. As it says on the back of the box, 'Racing just got exiting again.' -(The ...  Read the complete review

Indeed, Race Drive GRID from British developer Codemasters is now almost 5 years old (how time flies!) but after all this time this game still has one hell of a reputation about it as a racing game. Yes we have so many great racing games available for the Xbox 360 (Forza 4, F1, DIRT, PGR 4 etc etc), but Grid's amazing arcade style and challenging career mode still puts it right up there at the very top of the ''top racing games of all time'' leaderboard. The game starts with you starting out as a newcomer, a rookie, a novice whatever you want to call yourself competing in a one off race to get you right into the game. Pretty much after you fill out your ...  Read the complete review

Until a friend lent this to me to play, I confess I had never heard of Grid. Described as a racing game such as Gran Turismo but with damage, it sounded intriguing and I thought I would give it a go. And I can honestly say it really isn't that bad of a game! Basically, you start off as a nobody, buy a basic car and begin to race for one of the big Teams. As soon as you have got a few races under your belt, you then get a chance to form your own team and choose the decals and colours all cars in your garage will sport. From there, the game is split into seasons where you have to race on tracks all across the world, finishing first so that you can buy more cars ...  Read the complete review

Codemasters have really outdone themselves with this game. The races focus on several different disciplines, including: Drift, Touge, Muscle, Formula 3 and Prototype. The main single player campaign dubbed 'grid world' allows you to race and master the above disciplines. One of the new features you'll probably have heard of is the flashback feature. This allows you to rewind during a race up to 10 seconds before, say, a crash. This gives you a second chance (and a third, fourth, fifth, tops). I found this feature useful, and I really liked not having to restart a le mans just because of one mistake.... or 5. Oh yeah, after each season (each one lasts about ...  Read the complete review

The release of Race Driver GRiD follows Colin McRae DiRT after its 2007 release on to the HD consoles as Codemasters look to freshen up their long established racing franchises (TOCA and Colin McRae Rally) In a very similar way to DiRT, (just with tarmac instead of mud) Codemasters have broadened the appeal of the game with an emphasis on multiple disciplines, they are basically European circuit racing, American street racing and Japanese Drift events. Like DiRT, its to the credit of Codemasters that they've managed to cram so much in. There really is an awful lot. The game's career mode has a similar pyramid structure to Dirt's with three distinct paths for ...  Read the complete review