Grid Review-Slim, Muscular Gorgeous Arcade Racer • iGamesNews.com

Fast-fire follow-up Grid Autosport made a decent attempt, although understandably a modest attempt to bring the series back to its roots. And now, five years later, we have this simple Munch grid. what exactly is it? Remake it? Restart? Or something else entirely? In fact, this is much simpler and more satisfying than any ambiguity implied by the name. In short, this is a return to this generation of elbow arcade racing that is almost non-existent, and it has a certain amount of skill and talent, and its studio has rediscovered its A game and much more. Grid in 2019 is a great thing.

However, you need to overcome some doubts before reaching a conclusion. Compared to the previous version, this feels like a slim thing. Maybe it's because the old bomber has been downgraded to the front end. After all, the original Grid's virtual garage is dazzling. This new garage is just full-featured and not very versatile. Calling it functional is also very generous-running through all levels of the event, across all racing levels, managing the team and recruiting drivers, for some incredible reasons you have to go all the way to the screen and separate from the career menu.

Maybe it's because there is relatively little activity-about 13 locations are provided here instead of the original 15-and the problem has become more serious as the professional model has been honed. To enter the Grid World Series and wait for the old rival Ravenwest, you have to pass four of the seven levels, and when you spend money on the car you need, progress usually slows down. Grid's seasonal delivery will not help either, as certain additional content will definitely make them feel less barren and they are waiting.

However, the numbers alone do not tell the whole story. When you get on track, what really matters is that this Grid will sing. It's not as eye-opening as the original version-as you would expect, a rewind feature is provided here, but today it's so common that it's easy to forget the game-changers at the time-but there is a feeling of exciting execution goals and Expertise. There is no doubt that this is an arcade racer, and like all the best arcade games, it requires so much experience for all of us and distills it into its true essence.

Just like any self-respecting arcade racer, it looks absolutely gorgeous-in fact so gorgeous that in sports it is almost as beautiful as the old-fashioned Codemasters' headshots. Grid's original aesthetic has never really aged, and this Grid has performed it firmly. Stepping on the throttle, the screen is filled with a lot of tire smoke and rattling engine sounds, almost smell Action-Stimulating and exhilarating castor and hot steel aroma. The cars themselves looked overly exaggerated and were plagued by bumps and scratches when they arrived-after a lap, they were so dirty as if they had been driving on the wet Nordschleife for 24 hours. All of this, and like any self-respecting arcade racer, it runs at 60fps on the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro.

The action itself is also unique, thanks to not only the AI ​​launching a battle-but also often looking for a battle. The Avengers system is touted as a major new feature of Grid. Although it cannot completely change the rules of the game, it will definitely bring a lot of fun. Rubbing with the AI ​​driver multiple times, they will be marked as you after, give them extra aggressiveness, and may inspire them to sprint, brake tweets and smoke as you approach the next corner. If you like, there are clean races-convincing and entertaining cars-but if you object, you will back down. That's enough to make Grid and its AI drivers truly sexy.

There is a lot of personality elsewhere too, and although Grid may not have the most extensive car or track list, everything here shows a certain taste. The most popular tracks are returned in the track list, such as the San Francisco street circuit, and bold and beautiful debuts, such as running around cities like Havana and Shanghai, while lesser-known real routes (such as Sydney Speedway and Zhejiang) Older devotees such as Hindi and Sepang were added. . Also happy to be free, which often works-fixes the old layout of Silverstone (meaning the glorious bridge corner (now the pedestrian walkway to the coffee shed on the sidewalk) is back), At the same time you can run backwards around Brands, and the result is brilliant.

The racing list also contrasts with enthusiast taste, prototypes, station wagons and pleasing GT mechanical depth. Grid's greatest revelation (and its greatest wealth) is their feelings, because the handling of this matter is sublime. Everything will be as you wish, only so. A GT3 car has been implanted and is amazingly fast. The performance and grip level of DPi is purely science fiction, and the driving feel of Group 5 cars is very welcome. The feel on the wheels is even great-winding the GT40 around a soaked Silverstone, you will need to tip your toes and use an active arm.

Grid itself is not a simulation game-if it is the simulation game you are after, maybe I would recommend the beautiful F1 2019 or Dirt Rally 2.0-but for its part, it is more suitable for motorsport than most other cars. Games with strict SIM card credentials. It may be ridiculous to see a GT3 racing on the narrow Chinese streets until you remember that real racing is often even more stupid, and Grid excels at reaching the essence of motorsport with economy, fashion and open arms to give all the power Player. So what exactly is this grid? It's a sophisticated arcade racer, and Codemasters does its best-and it's better.