Grid

11:18am Tuesday 1st July 2008

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Game Review: Grid
PC
Age 7+
RRP £24.99

The latest racer from Codemasters is continuing what was once the magnificent TOCA series. Grid is just plain hard.

I use a Momo wheel from Logitech – one of the best out there, but finding a way past and away from the mental AI cars in Grid is nasty. And I have it on normal. Lord knows who can win on extreme.

Slamming the others out of the way seems to be the way to do it, which is a shame. There is massively improved damage modelling, but you have to question your team boss when he reassures you that the car has taken a knock but should be ok. While you are your ROOF! Huh?

So, this is not GTR2 then. But it's not pure arcade either, although seems a little closer than Tcoa Racedriver 3 was, and that was utterly brilliant.

Still no mouse support for the PC version which screams console yet again.

But it is the way this looks that causes the biggest mixed feeling. It does look stunning. Plenty of detail, but perhaps too much making it tough to actually see which way the road goes.

Learning all the tracks is part of it, but this is difficult.

You have the usual career mode, where you start small for other teams, win money and build up your own team. Nice.

There are lots of tight street circuits where it is impossible to pass clean within the usual three laps, so you resort to violence. No wonder there are so many bad drivers online.

There are some nicely placed tyres on some turns to stop wall riding too. Big tick for that, unless you hit them. Another weird thing, if you destroy the car, you can replay that same incident again and this time dodge it.

I have only just started my career, and have found it problematic right away.

But I shall persevere, and tweaking the steering wheel settings should help.

Drifting is included too – Pro Street anyone?