It was particularly noteworthy – bordering on intrusive – in the original Race Driver: GRID, but in Autosport it’s been balanced admirably.
Not only do you get wonderful crumple physics, race-ending wheel amputation and a detailed explosion of glass shards as windscreens smash in slow-motion, you also get mechanical damage that affects the gameplay.
I’ve spoken about this plenty of times before, but old GRID did damage really, really well – far better than most modern titles ( Wreckfest and BeamNG.drive excepted, of course). There’s nothing quite like seeing that dot slow and stop on the track map. In a pack of otherwise faceless drivers, zoning in on your arch-nemesis is a fantastic feeling and makes the game so much more engaging… especially when you manage to squeeze them into a wall or punt them onto the grass.
GRID AUTOSPORT ANDROID CAR LIST DRIVERS
All the drivers are named and their positions are kept in the championship table, but it’s only your chosen rival that gets their name emblazoned above their car, giving you a clear target to focus on. RivalriesĬodemasters itself has since rediscovered the joys of rivalries in racing games, as recent F1 titles see you facing off against not only a chosen foe but your team-mate too.īut what really makes Autosport exciting is seeing the name of your rival appear above their car. I can well imagine it takes a lot of time to record and implement this ostensibly small feature, but the gains are clearly worth it for those who aren’t called Bort. Granted, in Autosport your rivals are silent – in the game’s stablemate predecessor DiRT 2 you were called by name by the narrator AND the other drivers as they goaded you and told you off for using them as the brakes – but the game is clearly better for its inclusion, making you feel part of the game world. It was a masterstroke back in the original Race Driver: GRID and it just never gets old. That Personal TouchĪs long as it’s on the list, GRID Autosport will address you by your actual name in menu screens and during races. So let’s see what the genre could still learn from this modern classic. When viewed through 2022’s eyes, however, GRID Autosport might have been on to something.
Upon its release, this career structure appeared diminutive, though the racing was clearly still excellent at its core. Mixing and matching disciplines is fine, or you can just play one tier to completion. You can choose from Touring Cars, single-seaters, endurance races, modded cars (including drifting) or street racing. Suddenly unsure of whether to offer one thing or another, GRID Autosport held up its fireproof gloved hands in surrender and just gave the player a simple, no-frills choice. Why did this happen? The usual story: a small but all-too-vocal backlash made positivity and self-belief appear to be a repellant. Just look at the difference between Colin McRae: DiRT 2 and DiRT 3 for evidence of that. By 2011, its racing games were suffering from an identity crisis, changing tack drastically as sunshine, attitude and personality were ripped from the design briefs, replaced with grittiness and solemnity. GRID Autosport represents the last flourish of ‘old’ GRID, and came at a strange time for Codemasters.
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