![]() It’s essentially a feast for both the eyes and ears at every turn (pun intended). Whether it’s hearing the cars and environments around you while in first-person mode as you’re driving as fast as you can or heading down a dark, rainy, and neon-lit road with a pack of cars behind you, this game is jaw-dropping at times. Stunning is a word that still doesn’t give this game justice. I will definitely check out your custom tracks though! Audio and Visuals ![]() I’m sure that there are going to be a bunch of players that are going to enjoy this but it just isn’t for me. It’s fun and there are a ton of little intricacies that you can play around with. Lastly, there’s the course creator mode though I’m personally not the kind of player that takes the time to interact with this normally. Here you can drop in and out of races extremely easily which is a ground-breaking feature that I wish more racing titles would implement. There’s also the online multiplayer aspect which is where I found myself spending my time when I wasn’t engaging in the game’s story. There are other various other things you can do besides the story mode such as the Career mode which allows you to participate in all kinds of different sets of racers as you try to level up and proceed to unlock even more competitions. I guess what I’m saying is that having either dynamic or even more scripted moments would’ve made all the difference as I totally enjoyed the Hollywoodness of what the story had to offer. Having a racer’s crash cause discourse in a race or a rival purposely trying to run you off of the road would’ve been even more exciting to add to the already exhilarating experience.ĭon’t get me wrong, over the course of the races you participate in, you will most definitely build up rivals in the game as you crash into them and such but it just never felt like anything more than a tag on the screen and an audio snippet of my manager telling me that “they’re going to be gunning for you” or something along those lines. Unfortunately, while the game sprinkles actual story-implemented events or situations into gameplay once in a while, they aren’t as satisfying or nearly as frequent as I had hoped for. As I said, this game is realistic enough to feel grounded though doesn’t give up the fun of it all just to be as painfully realistic as some of its competitors.įor me, what seems to be at the core of the Legends experience is its story which, for the most part, does a superb job at illustrating the competition that the racers have on and off of the track. I tend to have a real issue with racing sim games because I don’t have the time or energy to spend hours with a car before I can get used to it. I was blown away by the sheer vastness of just how many different types of racers, vehicle types, and race tracks Codemasters developed for this game.Ĭontrol over each vehicle is different yet it’ll only take you a few laps until you can finally start to get your zen with each one. Racing is exciting and invigorating with heart-pounding moments when combining some of the world’s fastest machines with the tightest and most intricate racing tracks available. ![]() ![]() Legends manages to hit the nail on the head in a couple of key areas though falls short on the one aspect that I was hungry to see come with the game, but more on that later. Going along with the television aesthetic, the whole story is told in a sort of documentary-style as you follow the team to the top. Instead of having over-the-top cheesy characters like with EA’s latest Need for Speed titles, this title opts for more grounded ones that still have obvious traits so that it maintains that prime-time TV feel. GRID Legends tells a pretty interesting story about an up-and-coming racing team hoping to make it big in the GRID Legends league. Luckily, EA and Codemasters’, GRID Legends manages to capture the spirit of the racing games I played as a kid but with the visual and audio finesse of a next-gen racing title, though with a couple of caveats here and there. There aren’t a lot of those middle-of-the-road type of racers where, while grounded in reality, offer a bit of mercy when it comes to just how real they want to be. Racing games these days usually fall into one of two camps they’re either very arcade-like or a heavy simulation.
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