By John Walker on April 25th, 2008 at 9:04 pm.
So it turns out that GRID is just another MarioKart clone. Sigh!
You can carpool with us any day, Gametrailers.
Ho ho, only joking Codies. Drift is to driving games as double-jumping is to platform games: ESSENTIAL. They do seem to be taking it very seriously. I don’t even care about driving games, and I find myself increasingly excited about getting to play this. And not just because they played a nice, swelling QOTSA riff throughout.
25/04/2008 at 21:17 derFeef says:
I was excited about this game, but with every new trailer released its getting more and more “normal” and it has too much Need For Speed in the blood veins.
I hope a decent racing sim is going to be released for PC anytime.
25/04/2008 at 21:27 Cigol says:
Just play the existing racing simulators – that’s what everyone else is doing. This was never going to be anything but a derivative of the need for speed style of gaming. It’s Codemasters after all, they stopped doing amalgamation’s of simulation and arcade after Colin McRae and Toca’s second iterations. Doesn’t interest me, it’s a pretty game but no doubt it’ll be skin deep.
25/04/2008 at 21:29 Chris Evans says:
Meh, I hate drifting.
25/04/2008 at 21:51 Smee says:
They mean “Powerslide”, surely? Bit of a jump from post-apocalyptic sci-fi mud racing to NFS-style street racing, but I can dig it.
25/04/2008 at 21:59 Rook says:
I’m sure that QOTSA track is on every codies video almost.
25/04/2008 at 22:05 John Walker says:
You grumpy non-drift-loving wrongheads!
25/04/2008 at 22:30 Chris R says:
What’s the name of that QOTSA Track?
25/04/2008 at 22:34 Janek says:
It’s an almost-unrecognisable remix of No One Knows.
But yes as people have said it’s looking awfully NFS. Albeit really damned pretty.
25/04/2008 at 22:38 brian says:
NFS:Most Cloned
25/04/2008 at 23:03 Alex says:
It’s the UNKLE remix of “No one knows”.
25/04/2008 at 23:28 Cycle says:
Double jumping in platform games is generally completely superfluous.
25/04/2008 at 23:57 MeestaNob! says:
I’m reading more negatives than positives about GRiD (hnngg) to be honest… certainly note enough to convince me it’s any more than just very pretty.
Awaiting reviews and opinions from actual gamers.
26/04/2008 at 01:22 Cian says:
I was somewhat surprised they’d use a track with a video as provocative as this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbWMrv6fht0
Probably telling that I watched this trailer for the riff rather than the other content. Drifting, theres really competitions for that?
26/04/2008 at 20:22 Pod says:
I like it when my cars strafe.
I just wish my tanks could do that in games.
26/04/2008 at 22:20 ysbreker says:
That’s not Qotsa. It’s U.N.K.L.E. Well ok it’s a remix of No one knows by U.N.K.L.E. It even says so in the credits! :)
Great song by the way
27/04/2008 at 19:32 nakke says:
Cian: I doubt that’s the real video though.
I really REALLY hope Codemasters have fixed their driving mechanics for this game.