Race Driver:GRID includes Lemans 24h race

[Mr.BMW]

After trying the BMW I stopped playing it. The Mustang was fine, but the BMW was too sensitive on the steering and it steered with the rear wheels.

Naturally I was racing the BMW - I was using the Microsoft steering wheel

I would break my wrists before being able to control that car :|

[Joss]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=142296&page=3

9/10 

[Mr.BMW]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=142296&page=3

9/10 

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I don't trust gaming sites, especially after that dibocal when the one editor got fired for giving Kane and Lynch to low of a score (They had a large paid-for ad campaign on the site he worked for)

[linco24]

That has to be a mis-print! There's no way that game can score so highly.

The demo I downloaded for the PS3 was shocking. The touring cars handle, well, nothing like anything with 4 wheels.

[Poddy]

I'm gonna go against the tide here and say that I actually really enjoyed Grid. Sure it may not be very realistic, but that's not really what Codemasters said they were aiming for. I prefer Sims over Arcade racing games any day, but that doesn't mean I don't like to just turn my brain off and smash some (very pretty) cars into walls/other cars/tyres/more walls. I keep playing the demo again and again, purely because it's fun, nothing more and nothing less. Sadly the Sim-Racing market is a somewhat niche one, and not everyone craves absolute realism, so I think 9/10 is a pretty reasonable score, and I'll definately be picking it up

[Jeffrey]

I tried the full version and I also quite enjoy it  . I play with a gamepad and TC on, which makes it driveable, and it will be the only racing I'll get in months

[MortenS]

I'm gonna go against the tide here and say that I actually really enjoyed Grid. Sure it may not be very realistic, but that's not really what Codemasters said they were aiming for. I prefer Sims over Arcade racing games any day, but that doesn't mean I don't like to just turn my brain off and smash some (very pretty) cars into walls/other cars/tyres/more walls. I keep playing the demo again and again, purely because it's fun, nothing more and nothing less. Sadly the Sim-Racing market is a somewhat niche one, and not everyone craves absolute realism, so I think 9/10 is a pretty reasonable score, and I'll definately be picking it up

I have the same general opinion, but I felt the handling of the BMW to be a bit handful for an average arcade gamer. In my opinion, you should be able to control it with digital controllers like keyboard or pad. I feel the BMW is to sensitive to be controlled with any of those, but that might be just a controller setup thingy.

[Mr.BMW]

I'm gonna go against the tide here and say that I actually really enjoyed Grid. Sure it may not be very realistic, but that's not really what Codemasters said they were aiming for. I prefer Sims over Arcade racing games any day, but that doesn't mean I don't like to just turn my brain off and smash some (very pretty) cars into walls/other cars/tyres/more walls. I keep playing the demo again and again, purely because it's fun, nothing more and nothing less. Sadly the Sim-Racing market is a somewhat niche one, and not everyone craves absolute realism, so I think 9/10 is a pretty reasonable score, and I'll definately be picking it up

I have the same general opinion, but I felt the handling of the BMW to be a bit handful for an average arcade gamer. In my opinion, you should be able to control it with digital controllers like keyboard or pad. I feel the BMW is to sensitive to be controlled with any of those, but that might be just a controller setup thingy.

No, it's the game. When I switched to Team Orange and whatever the one with the Rustang was, they were much easier to handle.

The BMW feels like it doesn't respond at first, then all of a sudden it will pull a complete 90o turn, then kick out the rear end. I was using a wheel for it and spent a good 20 minutes fooling around with the options.

[Joss]

http://www.trustedreviews.com/gaming/review/2008/06/08/Race-Driver-GRID/p1

Another 9/10.....this time from one of my most trusted sites (no pun intended) 

Obviously it's not a sim (in the same way GT games are not "driving simulators") but I enjoyed Toca 2 back in the day, so maybe this could be fun for a mindless blast about?

[Kerr]

I had a shot of it on the xbox and thought it was rather good.  It seemed completely different than it did on Pc when I downloaded the demo.   

[Kerr]

I had another shot of it on the xbox today and I'm really liking it. It was the BMW 3 series I was driving and I thought it was great fun.

It's no sim but the graphics and gameplay was good.

I was given a money off voucher from ebay, so I've bid on a copy for the PC to see how it is.

[Mr.BMW]

(in the same way GT games are not "driving simulators")

Thank god someone who has an ounce of common sense! We need to raise an army to once and for all to shut GT Fanboi's up.

[Tibernius]

(in the same way GT games are not "driving simulators")

Thank god someone who has an ounce of common sense! We need to raise an army to once and for all to shut GT Fanboi's up.

I was one...until I played Forza for the first time.

GT: "The Real Driving Simulator"

[Kerr]

Has anyone else bought this for their PC yet?

My ebay copy arrived today and to be honest it feels nothing like the xbox version I tried and liked.

Using my G25 it seemed a delay between me steering then something happening. I could not even drive in a straight line, constantly zig zagging all over the track.

I tried to make changes to the controller settings and it was getting no better. I can't drive in a straight line never mind take a corner.

Suddenly I remembered I had a joypad under my bed so I plugged that it.

It was no better!

What am I doing wrong? What setting do you use to make the car driveable?

[Kerr]

I take nobody else bought the game?

There is now a patch available from the racedriver grid website to fix some issues. It's 188MB.

I've downloaded and installed it but not yet tried it.