You won’t be sharing them online nor will you have much creative freedom editing as you would in DIRT 5’s Playground mode, but you can tweak individual variables to your liking to create your own unique races to play by yourself or set up a lobby with other players. New to GRID is the addition of a Race Creator function, which lets you create your own custom races and play them online with other players. There’s a good amount of variety on offer here with event types for everyone, though with some minor progression gating that restricts you from certain categories without completing an event in a different category first, which some players may find annoying. Drift events make their long-awaited return in GRID Legends, in addition to new game mode types such as Electric and Multi-Class that see players racing in Electric Vehicles collecting boost around the track and competing in no holds barred races with cars of any type. But for a first attempt, Codemasters has crafted a decent campaign for players to enjoy that captures the racing documentary style and serves as an appetizer for players to experience before delving into the large variety GRID Legends has on offer with Career mode.Ĭareer is the heart of the GRID Legends experience, and while players might be disappointed with how short the campaign is, Career offers a substantial amount of content that throws you into a multitude of different car classes and disciplines in a huge lineup of locations. The Driven to Glory campaign is quite short, clocking in at around 5-6 hours to beat, so don’t expect incredible levels of storytelling here. Some cutscenes that blend real life with in-game can be quite jarring and immersion breaking, however the actors do a good job at making it feel like a believable, F1 style documentary – with a live action actor playing Nathan McKane capturing his cocky persona and Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education) delivering a fun-loving charismatic style as Valentin Manzi. You’ll play as ‘Driver 22’, an unknown in the racing world as you rise to the ranks from rookie to pro to the finale Gauntlet events representing the ever-struggling Senaca racing team.ĭriven to Glory is your typical underdog type story that does a decent job of telling a story between races of your teammates and a few of the on-track competitors you’ll forge rivalries with, giving it more personality and depth than just AI cars with names or a voice over the radio. The core focus of GRID Legends’ marketing was placed on its cinematic, Driven to Glory campaign a star-studded live action documentary of the last GRID World Championship season, told in a similar fashion to Netflix’s popular F1 Drive to Survive documentary series. Some environments do stand out more than others, with fictional circuits like the iconic Yokohama Docks being a visual treat to race around, while a day race around Brands Hatch can look admittingly dull. Races feel exciting to play with the added addition of reactive race music adding to the background thrill (despite weirdly being disabled in Career events during the writing of this review), coupled with beautiful, crisp 4K 60fps visuals on PlayStation 5, making vehicles and finer details stand out with extreme precision while zooming through a Dubai cityscape or across sun-soaked San Francisco streets. Oh, and curbs won’t spin you out anymore too! Cars feel smooth, reactive and grippy to drive, with each discipline having its own unique style, including Drift which is easy to pick up, exciting once you master and my most enjoyable thing to do in Legends. If you’ve played any Codemasters game you’d know their titles are revered for their solid driving mechanics, and that continues to be the case with GRID Legends – especially with some much-needed work from GRID 2019. Despite Codie’s signature solid gameplay quite literally driving the game, bizarre physics, lacklustre progression, disappointing multiplayer and a repetitive career were all pain points plaguing the reboot, on top of a lack of variety.įrom my early previews and now having spent roughly 20 hours with the final game, it’s clear Codies have taken that feedback to heart, and aimed to go above and beyond with GRID Legends – offering up a solid racing package with much needed gameplay improvements that not only addresses those areas but exceeds and excites. When Codemasters rebooted the GRID franchise after a half-decade hiatus back in the simple times of 2019, it was met with quite critical reception both from fans and critics alike, for a multitude of reasons.
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