![]() The story begins with a serious crash, before rewinding 16 months to give you the lead-up to that incident. He’s been a staple of the Grid series, and finally seeing the person behind the name did make a difference to my emotional investment in the game. What is particularly nice for long-time fans is the promise of seeing the face of Ravenwest driver Nathan McKane for the first time. In real motorsport, team principals are getting almost as much air time as the drivers these days, and that looks to be reflected here in Grid Legends, which is cool. However, since that's getting on for two decades since it came out, a more modern comparison would be to imagine F1 2021 with its pit scenes and drivers at different stages of their careers, but with the added facet of your team owner’s personality. Instead, the focus was all about the story.ĭubbed ‘Driven to Glory’, this story mode does feel surprisingly like Codemasters' TOCA Race Driver 2’s career mode. In fact, in my preview build there was no option to spend any of that hard-earned (or just ‘earned’ if you use the rewind option all the time) cash just yet. It’s by no means a management sim, at least not in the six events of story mode that were available for us to play. ![]() But while your XP rises, your bank balance fluctuates depending on your team’s performance, with costs deducted against winnings after each event. Grid Legends also has a Kudos system of sorts, rewarding you with XP for performing drifts, drafts and maintaining the ideal racing line. There are multiple viewpoints, but all of them are playable and the game is easy to pick up without feeling simplistic. Racing is close as you trade paint through city streets, nudge supercars into piles of shipping containers at the docklands or leap over ramps by the Eiffel Tower in the ridiculous, leaning stadium trucks. Handling is a pleasing mix of realism and arcade accessibility, only now there’s less feeling of the engine bogging down on the exit of corners and the cars are less finicky when turning, so it’s more satisfying to play. Straight off, the game looks and feels very similar to that 2019 Grid reboot. It’s this story mode we’ve been given early access to, so let’s jump in. No Scotty, mind, but we suppose they have to save something for the sequel. This time, it’s going right back to Codemasters' TOCA Race Driver roots and adding in a full-fat story mode, complete with real actors. Codemasters’ Grid series continues its resurgence after 2019’s decent-but-slightly-neutered reboot.
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