NFS's have the feeling of going through the streets at lightning speeds and braking from those speeds to a complete halt in 2 second,taking sharp 90 degree turns at such speeds with gravity working overtime to stop you from crashing into a building or some one's living room.
So here's where Codemaster's all new arcade-sim racer Race Driver: GRID comes into the picture. The last release of Colin McRae - DIRT has been known for its graphics. It's the same engine that's used here in GRID.
Each game mode has a distinct handling characterstics for the cars. If you thought you were good at NFS drifting, then you hav to try GRID.
Multiplayer works considerably well. The netcode is great and cars don't hover or juggle around the roads like other racing games. The real opponents can be annoying as you'll find yourself being boxed into barriers, and straight into walls on some narrower tracks. The tracks are well detailed and there is a good variety of them. There're race circuits, as well as street tracks to industrial Zones for drifting!
The replay is just spectacular with realistic camera motion. NFS has done away with cockpit views years ago, and is good to see it back in a racing title like GRID. There's a fair amount of detail in the car and it adds to the mood.
Dents, smashed corners, scraped patches of paint are quite normal. It's ammazing how much more refined GRID is than DIRT was. The game is absolutely gorgeous and is undoubtedly one of the best looking racers maybe even better than DIRT.
simply put, GRID is a fun arcade racer, garnishing with bits of simulation characteristics-it's more challenging than NFS for sure, and it's a proper racing game with focus on diligent driving and worying less about how flashy your car looks. Since its demo release a few weeks, there's been enthusiasm from simulation and arcade racing fans alike.
So lets hope a new game from the Bill Gates Microsoft Studio's too.and surely its review will also be placed here...


Developer: Ubisoft Montreal.
Publisher:Ubisoft.
Platforms: PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.