Race Driver Grid

[RB Will]

http://www.racedrivergrid.com/#/home/ 

I was wondering when the next Toca kinda game was coming but this one looks a bit Need For Speedy shall I not get my hopes up?

[stephen300o]

Seem to have gone a long way from there sim roots, there've gone all "Need for Gotham".

[Mr_Yogi]

Yeah it is a shame, TOCA Touring Cars and TOCA Touring Cars 2 were great in there day, as was Colin McRea Rally. It's just a shame they haven't seemed to progress like other games since the arival of Gran Turismo

Even the last version of Race Driver and CM:Dirt still used the weird central pivot physics that the original games used way back in 96-7 or whenever.

Edited by Mr_Yogi on Friday 29th February 11:38

[RB Will]

the handling is the thing that has disappointed me most about all codemasters games I have ever bought. Maybe we have just been spoilt by Forza but I was so annoyed with the way the cars moved on Colin McRae Dirt that a played for 5 mins then went back to forza for about a month.

[Andeh]

Mr_Yogi said:

Yeah it is a shame, TOCA Touring Cars and TOCA Touring Cars 2 were great in there day, as was Colin McRea Rally. It's just a shame they haven't seemed to progress like other games since the arival of Gran Turismo

Even the last version of Race Driver and CM:Dirt still used the weird central pivot physics that the original games used way back in 96-7 or whenever.

Edited by Mr_Yogi on Friday 29th February 11:38

Those weird central pivot physics in DiRT are ruining the game for me. Everything else is fantastic. The graphics, the sound and the cars are all excellent...but those physics

[skylinecrazy]

this game will be only beaten by GT5...... looks class, going through a racing career is really interesting

[scooby wrx sti]

Andeh said:

Mr_Yogi said:

Yeah it is a shame, TOCA Touring Cars and TOCA Touring Cars 2 were great in there day, as was Colin McRea Rally. It's just a shame they haven't seemed to progress like other games since the arival of Gran Turismo

Even the last version of Race Driver and CM:Dirt still used the weird central pivot physics that the original games used way back in 96-7 or whenever.

Edited by Mr_Yogi on Friday 29th February 11:38

Those weird central pivot physics in DiRT are ruining the game for me. Everything else is fantastic. The graphics, the sound and the cars are all excellent...but those physics

if you think dirt's physic's are bad try saga rally

[Civpilot]

skylinecrazy said:

this game will be only beaten by GT5...... looks class, going through a racing career is really interesting

Well for me it's got to beat Forza Motorsport 2 first... which itself easily beats every other console game on the market for a handling model. Then there is the totally comprehensive tuning side of things.

Race driver grid has a battle on its hands, thats for sure. At the moment the graphics look very "pretty" but as previously mentioned, they seem to be very "Need for Speed" rather than realistic.

[stephen300o]

Civpilot said:

skylinecrazy said:

this game will be only beaten by GT5...... looks class, going through a racing career is really interesting

Well for me it's got to beat Forza Motorsport 2 first... which itself easily beats every other console game on the market for a handling model. Then there is the totally comprehensive tuning side of things.

Race driver grid has a battle on its hands, thats for sure. At the moment the graphics look very "pretty" but as previously mentioned, they seem to be very "Need for Speed" rather than realistic.

Also they have included "drifting" so proper physics are bound to have been compromised.

[Mattygooner]

Not impressed with anything Codemasters has brought out since CM2 / Toca.

Forza has the console physics to a tee, just look at the in game schematics to see how much it is calculating in real time. Now all it needs is a decent steering wheel and it would be perfect.

[RB Will]

scooby wrx sti said:

if you think dirt's physic's are bad try saga rally

yeah but sega is supposed to have a dodgy arcade feel to it, they always have and I have liked all of the sega games, have the new one on xbox too and was much less disappointed with it than I was with Colin. Sega met my expectations Colin just let me down. I think so far the best rally sim is Richard Burns, its a lot harder than others but I think the physics are most realistic.

[johnph]

RB Will said:

scooby wrx sti said:

if you think dirt's physic's are bad try saga rally

yeah but sega is supposed to have a dodgy arcade feel to it, they always have and I have liked all of the sega games, have the new one on xbox too and was much less disappointed with it than I was with Colin. Sega met my expectations Colin just let me down. I think so far the best rally sim is Richard Burns, its a lot harder than others but I think the physics are most realistic.

Not everybody wants something as realistic as rFactor or Richard Burns Rally. Colin McRae Rally struck a nice balance between realism and playability, remember that with console games it has to be playable with a controller as well as a steering wheel.

Race Driver 3 on the PS2 had the right idea, a realistic but manageable default handling and the option of highly realistic handling. GT5 Prologue has a similar option.

btw - I am just as disappointed with Codemasters with what they've done to the Race Driver series.

Edited by johnph on Monday 3rd March 13:00

[skylinecrazy]

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/911/911448p1.html

Lots of new cars coming shortly.

[The_Jackal]

Anyone racing on Grid on Xbox Live tonight?
My GT is TheJackal GN fel free to add me. I'm up for Forza2 as well.

[Tycho]

I swapped GT5 Prologue for this a few days ago. Maybe it isn't the best in terms of physics etc but it has that vital ingredient that GT5 currently lacks.... Excitement.

I found GT5 about as exciting as watching paint dry but when the full game is out I will get that as I think once the online play is sorted in GT5 then they will complement each other quite well.