Codemasters - Grid 2 - 2013

[Brend]

I've totally left single player just now. Just not enough incentive for now. I know it picks up later though. 👍

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

Easy enough. The majority of the AI racers are as slow as anything although the top three or so put up a good fight. And it's still the typical Codies affair of "You won a race! Go through to the final!"... yeah. 👎

EDIT:

Oh, and the Atom: dat noise

And you say its a drifty pig, I might have to buy it online and give it a whirl.

The Atom is the only lightweight car I haven't bought yet.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

And you say its a drifty pig, I might have to buy it online and give it a whirl.

The Atom is the only lightweight car I haven't bought yet.

The devs must be laughing at us struggling to complete that challenge It's such an odd match-up - a heavy, overpowered Merc careering down a two-lane wide mountain pass. It was much fun

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

The devs must be laughing at us struggling to complete that challenge It's such an odd match-up - a heavy, overpowered Merc careering down a two-lane wide mountain pass. It was much fun

Oh, so its a touge or faceoff match? I can run my M5 down it with relative ease..

 

[The Stig Farmer]

Oh, so its a touge or faceoff match? I can run my M5 down it with relative ease..

No, just a time trial like all vehicle challenges.

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

No, just a time trial like all vehicle challenges.

Ah ok. Got ya now. Like I said, I haven't did any career past running that mustang around Indy in the beginning.

An impression of Grid 2 from a user on www.operationsports.com

Finally got my pre-order from Best Buy. Had to call them because my Indy DLC code never came - the reason I pre-ordered in the first place. However, ten minutes in I knew this was a fruitless choice. Although GRID2 features a few circuits, this game was not made for anything resembling a professional race series, let alone an oval. I would have been far better served by any of the other pre-order options or none at all.

I hated the feel of GRID and can at least say 2 is an improvement. While the original GRID struggled to find an identity someplace between its TOCA roots and its desire to usurp NFS from its arcade throne, GRID2 has no such issue. GRID2 has abandon all ties with its prestigest past and aimed ever so squarely at the saturated arcade racer market.

So what makes GRID2 stand apart in this crowded genre? Frankly nothing. It's pretty graphics are pasey this late in the console generation and the writing for its story driven career mode, the majority of the single player game, would be hard pressed to keep a 12 year old engaged. The handling is more on par with Ridge Racer, with a strong emphasis on drifting. In fact, the slightest tap of brakes will whip your car abruptly sideways leaving the idea of "brake zones" behind for GRID2s more sim oriented siblings.

Unlike Ridge Racer, contact is much more punishing. Not a huge drawback in single player but a travesty in multiplayer. MP is not about racing, its about surviving. Another drawback of the otherwise entertaining, be it generic, online experience is that Codemasters locked all the cars away - separate from whatever you have done in single player. That said, the emphasis on car collecting is downplayed on and offline. Well, maybe not downplayed as much as it just poorly executed. Long load times, bad cameras and ill conceived design choices make the "garage" experience almost as cumbersome as the ridiculous story that drives the single player.

Overall, GRID2 isn't a bad game, its just not a great game. Its a very average arcade racer that is still struggling to find a way to get noticed in a crowded genre. GRID2 is a by-the-numbers game designed by market studies rather than any single passionate developer. All of the tricks Codemasters has embraced to set GRID2 apart have only done so in a negative way.

 

[Nick Skyline]

Scratch that, imma now have 8,500,00 fans Season 4 is when it all gets big.

I'm all finished Career Mode, with EXACTLY 34,653,500 fans.

My first instinct after buying this game was to burst my way through Career Mode, and then go Online.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

I'm all finished Career Mode, with EXACTLY 34,653,500 fans.

My first instinct after buying this game was to burst my way through Career Mode, and then go Online.

Showoff

Same tactic here, at least this way I'll be entering online multiplayer with a load of experience under my belt and a good idea of the best cars in each class. 👍

 

[bakalhau]

This game certainly has a different feel from GRID 1 in a lot of aspects, but I think the racing itself is as good as it was in the first game. I still love all the racing details it has, like AI spinning out or battling it out with me. Plus the crashes are just as awesome as ever ^^ And the physics too. I couldn't believe it when I did a random huge jump in Cote d'Azur (at 1:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXWOLCgkbsw



I think this series lives off these little moments rather than the bigger picture You know for all its flaws, it is a fact this game makes me laugh and enjoy it like a lot of other sim racers don't, and in that regard it excels.

 

[Dan Hill]

Is there a way I can get the McLaren MP4-12C in the default colour scheme (orange with the number 59). I bought the Brands Hatch Edition of the game which included the McLaren pack but the car is currently set to my own liviery and can't see if I ever had it in the default liviery.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

Is there a way I can get the McLaren MP4-12C in the default colour scheme (orange with the number 59). I bought the Brands Hatch Edition of the game which included the McLaren pack but the car is currently set to my own liviery and can't see if I ever had it in the default liviery.

Every car has their default livery online, where you can choose between that and your own custom livery. Offline, then no, sorry, there's no way you can do that, unless you set it to its default vinyl in customisation and paint it a similar colour.

 

[C6.R]

I really don't know about this game.
Some says it's heaven, some say it's horrible.
Guess I'm gonna wait for a demo the be released to make my final decision!

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

I really don't know about this game.
Some says it's heaven, some say it's horrible.
Guess I'm gonna wait for a demo the be released to make my final decision!

And if a demo isn't released?

 

[RUstAuSi]

So, my first experience at online.

I've played career mode for a while now. I currently have about 3 million fans. I thought I'd take a break from that and start online.

Initially, it was okay. I knew I was going to get hit by a careless driver and spin out a few times, and I managed a 7th place for my first race. I gradually finished in higher positions each race and I managed to win my first race after about 30 minutes! Unfortunately, Grid 2 🤬 crashed as soon as I won that race and crossed the line, so those results were lost. It was so frustrating.

Apart from that, however, my first impressions are not as bad as I thought they would be. All I need to do is find cleaner racers, and I'll be sorted. I think I can win more races!

For anyone on PC/Steam: cRUstAuSi

 

[Rainbow Dash]

Easy enough. The majority of the AI racers are as slow as anything although the top three or so put up a good fight. And it's still the typical Codies affair of "You won a race! Go through to the final!"... yeah. 👎

I have the game on Very Hard & the whole pack of cars will regularly kick my ass if I pussy foot around... in the WSR events. The "top" drivers AI are always set to be hard so when you hit Season 3 it gets really tough.

Same tactic here, at least this way I'll be entering online multiplayer with a load of experience under my belt and a good idea of the best cars in each class. 👍

Too bad you can upgrade cars & cause them to go into the next tier so that knowledge isn't the most helpful. I have the Hot Hatch Alfa upgraded so it's still in Tier 1 but could totally take Tier 2 on.

 

[SlowInFastOut]

it definitely has it's moments online, love that california highway mountainous course, i've landed barrel rolls and kept on driving, also driven under people flying through the air off the mountains haha pretty exciting.

 

[STEVE182rs]

^ lol snap, i was online yesterday mountain course and there was just loads of golfs barrel rolling down the hill, was pure madness lol it was funny tho. After a lot of madness i did find a good group and have some great racing. Like any online racing game, its only as good as the people your racing.

 

[Silver-Sylph]

In my worst race to date i was in my Cruze at Okutama and i was going down the super steep downhill part where i clipped the mountain side and flipped and got hit by many other cars all the way down the tunnel where i finally got hit some more and continued to plummet down the mountain.

 

[wicken]

And if a demo isn't released?

They already said a while ago that they won't release a demo.

 

[m8h3r]

Why would they release a demo a week after the games actually released anyway?

 

[TheeFrogmanlego]

This game disappointed me content wise, it scraped 95% of the first games content.

 

[Fryto]

Online was terrible yesterday. Couldn't find a decent lobby and most of my PSN friends that have the game were playing SP.

Anyone up for some (clean ) racing today?
I should be on around:
9.30 pm CEST
8.30 pm BST
2.30 pm CST

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Has anyone else heard the duff engine noises since the update? Whenever I pass by something like a microphone, flags or trees it plays some random engine noises rather than the air "whoosh" that CM love so much. First I thought it was other cars, but I had a huge gap back and the track didn't loop at that point. Then I noticed in a vehicle challenge, and it was at random points as well so not just reverberations from my own car. Noise didn't change at all for the tunnel.

On top of this the engine will do some strange blips, gear changes and rev ranges occasionally (normally mid-corner). It's kind of ruining it for me at the moment in what would otherwise be a very good arcade racer.

 

[m8h3r]

Please don't tell me they've changed the noise in the tunnels. That was the only fun part of the big merc challenge.

Online was terrible yesterday. Couldn't find a decent lobby and most of my PSN friends that have the game were playing SP.

Anyone up for some (clean ) racing today?
I should be on around:
9.30 pm CEST
8.30 pm BST
2.30 pm CST

I'm in!

 

[C6.R]

And if a demo isn't released?

I think I would have to buy it than and hope for the best haha

 

[Fryto]

Has anyone else heard the duff engine noises since the update? Whenever I pass by something like a microphone, flags or trees it plays some random engine noises rather than the air "whoosh" that CM love so much. First I thought it was other cars, but I had a huge gap back and the track didn't loop at that point. Then I noticed in a vehicle challenge, and it was at random points as well so not just reverberations from my own car. Noise didn't change at all for the tunnel.

On top of this the engine will do some strange blips, gear changes and rev ranges occasionally (normally mid-corner). It's kind of ruining it for me at the moment in what would otherwise be a very good arcade racer.

Indeed, I noticed that as well. Since the update I noticed:
*Tunnels don't echo, even get more silent
*My car's engine noise is reflected too much when racing close to walls, making you think there is another car on your tail
*Other cars seem to "whoosh" by when there's no over- or underpass nearby.
*It also seems like they adjusted the HDR levels. I had set it to '2' originally which made it perfect. Now it seems overexposed again and I'm not able to get it any better

So they might have fixed some bugs, but screwed up some other things while they were at it...

 

[Pezzarinho17]

And it definitely wasn't like that before the update, correct? I wondered if it may have always been like that but had taken me a couple of days to realise. Didn't notice the HDR level change though, but I'm insensitive to graphics at a finer level.

 

[Fryto]

I'm quite positive for the engine noises at inappropriate places and the echo coming from walls.
For the tunnels, the echo has been pretty silent from the start, but the engine noise always kept more or less the same volume. Now it seems to be more silent in the tunnels than outside to me...

For the HDR, I might notice it because of my screen. I've had issues in some other games as well to get it look right. That's why I instantly noticed the change: as I was able to set it to look nice at the start, and now the image looks overexposed without me changing any settings in-game or on my screen...

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

I did a race yesterday and was going through a tunnel and it was just a blinding white light. I thought I had died.. anywho, I haven't had any problem with the tunnel noises.

 

[RX-7_FD3S]

This game disappointed me content wise, it scraped 95% of the first games content.

What ? What is similar ? Because everything I see is different, even the type of event is different from the first. Tracks are all different, cars as well. The starting cars are pretty much teh same and the BMW touring car is pretty close as well, otherwise nothing is the same.