Moscow in the snow or London in the rain, at night, are sensory overloads. Some of the new street circuits are dazzling too, reminiscent slightly of 2000’s Metropolis Street Racer but with more pizzaz.
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Throw in reverse track layouts, weather conditions, plus multi-class and Eliminator modes and you’ll never be lost for cocktail inspiration.
Not necessarily the number of vehicles or tracks, but the combinations and choice selections.Ĭlassic touring cars like a Renault Laguna, or late ‘90s GT1 cars like the Panoz Esperante, combined with electric open-wheelers or hypercars. If this is picked up by a fervent online community who just want to have a laugh, it could be the most clippable racing game in aeons.Īnother strength of GRID Legends is variety and it’s this feature that exemplifies the breadth. How about Suzuka, backwards, at night, in the snow with jump ramps and an Aston Martin Valkyrie. There is the ‘Race Creator’ too, however, where you can set up a combination of parameters in a more traditional lobby-style event.
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For the other drivers joining online, they earn miles and XP, but not career objectives. But only the lead player actually progresses their career. Seeing a friend join a race and starting up a party chat to talk away while still completing your career objectives is riotously good fun.Ĭlever technology that works with aplomb during the pre-release player numbers. In addition, should you select the option, any one of your friends can ‘hop in’ to your career races to help you out via the cross-platform EA account friends list. No matter what race you’re taking part in, you are still clocking the miles, earning XP and cash, in turn, counting to your single-player stats.
Sure, you can skip ahead to a new class of car and there’s always a way of progressing in some form, but for completionists, this is where online multiplayer comes into play. Except, sometimes car upgrades aren’t unlocked until you have driven it for a set number of miles and there’s no guarantee you’ll have ticked that box simply racing in the career. In order to advance, you not only achieve strong race results, but you must also manage car upgrades and sponsor objectives.Įarn credits, spend those credits on upgrades and then level up your car, ergo unlocking new tiers of events. That progress, however, isn’t quite as straightforward as the minimalist menu may have you convinced. Renault Clio Cups and Ginetta GT5s will be your staple diet for the opening hours before you progress to quicker machinery and sterner rivals. The career has taken a back seat during the pre-release hype for GRID Legends, but it’s the meat, or meat-free substitute, between the bread.Ī familiar tale of starting from the bottom, rising to the top. Not only did that have more on-track setups, but it also spent more time building the Aiden Jackson and Casper Akkerman characters through phone calls and emails – all notable by their absence here.Īs an aperitif though, Driven to Glory successfully manages to stimulate your appetite. Well-acted, a plot twist or two, but it didn’t grab me in the same way as, funnily enough, Codemasters’ stablemate, F1 2021’s Braking Point. Driven to Glory is meant to be a saccharine sweet explosion of flavour, bombastic should be its modus operandi. There are no pre-determined scenarios, which to a purist sounds attractive.īut the separate career mode is for that. While I enjoyed the characters and Nathan McKane’s machismo, apart from the opening salvo, every hands-on moment is either a straight-up race or time trial. The aim is to reach The Gauntlet, a knockout style event for the world’s best racing teams. You play through a near-seamless – when played on a device with a solid-state drive – mix of story and driving events, which does its best to enthral you. This is indicative of both the fictionalised team and GRID Legends itself. “It’s time for us to deliver,” explains the enigmatic head honcho. This is the Driven to Glory story mode, and it’s a new take on the GRID formula, where you are Driver 22 competing for the upcoming Seneca team led by Marcus Ado.
You’re then thrust into the race midway through and thus begins our journey through GRID Legends. They collide, with Seneca Racing’s driver Yume Tanaka out of the race, and Ravenwest’s Nathan McKane seemingly at fault. The game begins with a slick cutscene of two racers duking it out at new fictional race venue Strada Alpina.
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