Race Driver Grid Demo available (Xbox360)

dirtydog · 10 May 2008 at 14:25

i-bert said:
I hated the handling at first,but then i was compairing it to forza and gt5p.But i soon realised i had more fun in 1 race on this than i did playing the boring GT5p.

This sums it up for me

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1Q6sxNJoY

Funny video

Nismo · 10 May 2008 at 14:28

i-bert said:
This sums it up for me

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1Q6sxNJoY

Makes it look awesome, shame it still sucks to play

Frapple · 10 May 2008 at 14:33

i-bert said:
I hated the handling at first,but then i was compairing it to forza and gt5p.But i soon realised i had more fun in 1 race on this than i did playing the boring GT5p.

This sums it up for me

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1Q6sxNJoY

rofl, is that what the crashes are really like in GT5? And what's up with the Micra lol

Just tried the demo on PC with 360 pad, picked up it straight away, assigned all the controls automatically and even has rumble.

I rent everything...this was already on the rental list. But will definitely buy it for PC as well.

SS-89 · 10 May 2008 at 15:47

loooool that youtube video was very funny.

beachBOYken · 10 May 2008 at 18:23

just played the ps3 demo , and i must admit i did not like it , i love racing games but the driving is way to responsive and i actually find it to fast?

ZG002 · 11 May 2008 at 00:24

Mista.Gee said:
Heres my thoughts.

Although this is a demo based opinion.

The drifting from what i've played of it so far will take some getting used to, certainly can feel the oversteer and understeer of the car infact best drift racing i've ever seen in any video game so far and is close to as realistic as you could possibly get.

Are you for real mate? Do you drive? Let alone ever drifted a car! its bloody dire. As has been said its all wrong tbh. Dirt was bad with the super braking on gravel or anything where you really dont have super braking. Now you have this stupid atempt at handling. You slow down to a certain speed and get on the gas in the bmw and it just kind of stops and spins from the center axis of the car! Inside view when drifting coming up to a corner the front of the car shifts about all over the place!

CM You really do need to step back and think about this! The package of this game looks good and sounds good.. But the one thing you must get right is the actual driving!

Crazy waste of a game

Ultra_Extreme said:
this is gonmna be the game to make me buy the wheel at long last

Dont seriously mate.. This will feel so bad with the wheel

Marcos · 11 May 2008 at 02:35

ZG002 said:
Are you for real mate? Do you drive? Let alone ever drifted a car! its bloody dire. As has been said its all wrong tbh. Dirt was bad with the super braking on gravel or anything where you really dont have super braking. Now you have this stupid atempt at handling. You slow down to a certain speed and get on the gas in the bmw and it just kind of stops and spins from the center axis of the car! Inside view when drifting coming up to a corner the front of the car shifts about all over the place! CM You really do need to step back and think about this! The package of this game looks good and sounds good.. But the one thing you must get right is the actual driving!

Crazy waste of a game

Dont seriously mate.. This will feel so bad with the wheel

This is my biggest problem with the way codemasters do these racing games, as soon as you go on the grass/gravel or try to floor it from a low speed it AUTOMATICALLY spins, it just triggers it, even if you can control it, it forces you to spin

which is just really lame

beachBOYken · 11 May 2008 at 09:40

the handling is rubbish , i prefered the old toca on the ps1,

dirtydog · 11 May 2008 at 10:35

Marcos said:
This is my biggest problem with the way codemasters do these racing games, as soon as you go on the grass/gravel or try to floor it from a low speed it AUTOMATICALLY spins, it just triggers it, even if you can control it, it forces you to spin

which is just really lame

Yeah they have had 'canned' spins for a long time now haven't they

Very feeble indeed.

ZG002 · 11 May 2008 at 10:42

I just dont get it. The package of eveything else is really good. They used to do half decent attemps at handling on the old toca's.. so why this? strange. Do you think they could attempt to fix it before release? or with a patch?

Nismo · 11 May 2008 at 10:49

ZG002 said:
Do you think they could attempt to fix it before release? or with a patch?

Release is before the end of the month so doubtful. In any case, they obviously think this is how the game should play, so it would take an overwhelming amount of flak for them to change the core handling code with a patch. Even then, I doubt they would do it.

I've actually found the game to be slightly more fun with all aids ON. Bit of a cop out, but for me it made it slightly more arcadey, rather than something that didn't seem to know what it was.

Memphis · 11 May 2008 at 10:58

Ultra_Extreme said:
this is gonmna be the game to make me buy the wheel at long last

Well that really says a lot tbh.

Oh and your signature breaks the rules. Only one line of text under an image.

Ultra_Extreme · 11 May 2008 at 11:07

Memphis said:
Well that really says a lot tbh.

Oh and your signature breaks the rules. Only one line of text under an image.

my image is smaller than yours

Nismo · 11 May 2008 at 11:26

Ultra_Extreme said:
my image is smaller than yours

From FAQ said:
You may also add 1 consecutive lines of normal or smaller text directly above or underneath the image with no spaces inbetween image and text.

?

Zefan!?

ZG002 · 11 May 2008 at 11:27

He didnt say it was too big. He just said its got two lines of text under it. Which is against the rules. But dude dont buy a wheel for this game. it will feel soo bad

salami1212 · 20 May 2008 at 23:48

dirtydog said:
Yeah they have had 'canned' spins for a long time now haven't they Very feeble indeed.

obviously if your going flat out, if you lightly touch the accelerator its fine

BlizzardX · 21 May 2008 at 07:16

Have peoples opinion on this changed at all? It seems slightly ironic that the PC games lot are loving this while the console lot aren't considering the massive amount of PC driving simulations compared to those on consoles...

Spunj99 · 21 May 2008 at 12:20

Nismo said:
I think the complete opposite, it suffers from the same problem as Dirt in that there is hardly any feeling to the cars, especially when braking.

Handling is very odd, and I wouldn't even call it arcadey, just poor :/

Graphics are nice (nothing more) but overall after the first play I'm very disappointed. The gravel traps are extremely annoying also, are they sheet ice or something?! Slightest hint of a tyre on there and it's an instant spin.

^ What he said.

Played a drift race and then the BMW race both on "Pro mode", in-car view, with all the AIDS off. Thought i was missing something so I tried the BMW race again...nope.

Certainly a pretty game but my god, what an awful handling model. :\

Zogger · 21 May 2008 at 13:03

BlizzardX said:
Have peoples opinion on this changed at all? It seems slightly ironic that the PC games lot are loving this while the console lot aren't considering the massive amount of PC driving simulations compared to those on consoles...

I think that's the thing, on the consoles there are plenty of other games of a similar target market - pgr4, gt5, forza2 etc whereas the pc has pretty much none of these semi-sim games, it's either full on sim or full on arcade on pc so there is less to live up to

NVIDIA_x64 · 21 May 2008 at 17:44

U r right ^^^ that last semi-sim game PC had was TDU :cool:

or maybe NFS PS

but that was a bit of a poss.

That is prob why PC gamers are loving GRID