Race Driver: GRID Review

Race Driver: GRID may not be the right choice for rally veterans, particularly those who have enjoyed earlier installments in Codemasters' CMR series or TOCA series. Although if you are into speed and supercars and a mix of arcade-style and realistic racing, do not skip this one. There's practically every racing event you can imagine. During these you may hop into fine-tuned Japanese sports-cars, Formula 1000 track cars, Detroit muscle cars and so on. The possibilities of customization are narrowed down, though that didn't bother me much.

Unfortunately, there isn't anything out of the ordinary to experience in the multiplayer. Fair enough, every racing event from the single-player mode may be played online in multiplayer. Still, number of modes you can enjoy with others is relatively small and for those who cannot or do not wish to play online, there isn't a split-screen mode on offer.

Despite some of its flaws, I cannot say that this is a bad game. If you want to experience a good racer and have been disappointed by recent failures like NFS: Pro Street and such, then I advise you to give this one a go. The single-player campaign is fun all the way and worthy of your time. Assuming you are prepared to look the other way when it comes to the aforementioned setbacks, GRID can provide many long hours of top-notch entertainment.