Codemasters - Grid 2 - 2013
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Looks alot like Grid 1 (Driving wise)
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If you go to an actual arcade (if they still exist) to play a racing game, do you use a pad or a wheel? I thought Grid handled acceptably well with a wheel (on PC, anyway) which is more than can be said for F1 2011 which just got confused whenever the frame rate went above 60.
Also there is such a thing as good arcade handling and bad arcade handling, so not everyone who is criticising the game is wishing it was a sim and not an arcade thing. Besides, with Assetto Corsa, Project CARS and rFactor 2 I don't think the sim crowd really has time for another sim anyway.
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The funny thing is there are a lot of sim racers who don't even like the cockpit view when they're using a wheel anyway! Personally, though, I do. However if the physics are good (for an arcade racer) and the wheel works well enough, I'd consider picking it up. If it drives like TDU 2, which has absolutely bugger all feedback, forget it!
Oh, and it would have to work on triples. There, I said it.
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Well, this is what they meant by broader audience, I suppose. Apart from the touring cars and some previously shown open-wheelers, this game looks horrendous.
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I agree. I m really struggling to find the identity of this game - it looks too boring to drive to be an arcade racer, yet it is too far away from reality to be even called simcade.
Most of all, looking at the gameplay videos, it leaves me totally unimpressed. Just about the only thing I like is the atmosphere and the look of the tracks, disregarding the stoopid bloom of course. Everything else just leaves me totally cold.
PS: Not only no cockpit view, also no rearview mirror? Only that arrow thingie?
Most of all, looking at the gameplay videos, it leaves me totally unimpressed. Just about the only thing I like is the atmosphere and the look of the tracks, disregarding the stoopid bloom of course. Everything else just leaves me totally cold.
PS: Not only no cockpit view, also no rearview mirror? Only that arrow thingie?
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Sounds fun
I'll say now I haven't had a chance to watch the gameplay. 
I impulse-preordered (O_o) on the basis that this will have that sense of fun I got with DiRT 3 and Showdown. Fingers crossed.
I never said it wouldn't be fun but just that it's easy to see how it GENERALLY handles based on videos. Of course you need to play it to get a true idea but from that video you can easily see it's not even close to being a sim. I know they said it never would be one but obviously there is a scale between full on arcade and full on sim and this is obviously much closer to the former.
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Looks like an updated version of Grid 1.
Did I? Where did I imply that? I enjoy pretty much any racing game, full arcade or full sim but that doesn't mean I can't be disappointed that this particular game has gone further towards the arcade style when I'd prefer it went the other way, back to how the old ToCA games were. They were never full sim either but they were much closer than GRID and now GRID 2 are.
It just seems a shame that there are basically only THREE general racing games on PS3 that try to be anything close to a sim. GT and the Eutechnyx Ferrari/Supercar challenge games, although I never liked the handling on those. Other than that though, everything else is strongly or mildly arcade and that disappoints me. I suppose there is Ferrari Challenge as well that is sort of sim, make that four. I don't count the Shift games, they were arcade dressed as sims. There are the F1 games of course but they're not general games.
It's honestly partially why I think GT5 has sold so well, what are the direct alternatives?
I'll probably still buy and enjoy this but not at full price.
A sequel looks like an updated version of the first game. Who'd have thought it.
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A sequel looks like an updated version of the first game. Who'd have thought it.
Looks like almost an entirely different game to me.
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I'm really quite surprised that no one else has posted this up. It focuses on the European cars and which tracks from that region will be in the game.
Grid 2 in Europe
Also Mr 'I'm so goddam awesome' has toned his act down a bit
Grid 2 in Europe
Also Mr 'I'm so goddam awesome' has toned his act down a bit
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And just like that, we now have:
Subaru BRZ
Volkswagen Golf GTI
Mercedes SLS GT3
McLaren F1 GT
Not sure if those were already included in some sort of list, but first time I've seen all of them in a Grid 2 trailer.
Subaru BRZ
Volkswagen Golf GTI
Mercedes SLS GT3
McLaren F1 GT
Not sure if those were already included in some sort of list, but first time I've seen all of them in a Grid 2 trailer.
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Downhill Dino
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F1 GTR. 
That is all.
But actually, that video didn't look too good. The graphics don't look all that great. What happened Codemasters? You're good at this.
That is all. But actually, that video didn't look too good. The graphics don't look all that great. What happened Codemasters? You're good at this.
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Unfortunately Not.F1 GTR.
They forgot rear wing because as you can see in this photo, the McLaren F1 GTR has a huge one.
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