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| From: Codemasters
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.98
You Save: $7.01 (35%)
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 2880
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: car_and_truck_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 40208
Model: SGRIDCDUS00
UPC: 767649402083
EAN: 0767649402083
ASIN: B0016O5G62
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Contains 3 distinct regions featuring US, Japan and Europe | | • | 3 distinct racing styles that include Muscle cars, city racing, drift racing, traditional circuit racing | | • | Progress and create your own race team, hire co-drivers, and attract real-life big sponsors | | • | 20 car grids, bigger than any other racing game, fully licensed cars and tracks, all fully damageable | | • | Slicker, sexier, presentation similar to a Hollywood film |
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Product Description
PROJECTION SCREEN
Amazon.com
GRID™ Is all about the race- that period from lights to flag; full of tension, pressure, noise, and action.
GRID will take players to beautifully realised and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars – new and classic, circuit and drift – players will compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete in challenging city-based competitions, through to road events and urban street races.
In Europe, race gamers will compete on the greatest official tracks in prestige Marques including Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani. Iconic cities across the U.S. – including San Francisco, Washington DC and Detroit and each with their own atmosphere and events – play hosts to diverse street races. Here, high-performance V8 muscle cars set the pace in aggressive closely fought pack competitions.
In the Far East, Japanese racing culture sets the tone where night races, including Drift racing, take drivers through neon illuminated cities and to outlying mountain roads. There is also the opportunity to compete in races that operate on the fringes of legality in the back streets and industrial areas of Yokohama. | Key Features
- IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RACE: Codemasters Studios' history of creating stellar racing titles, combined with AI and the ability of the EGO engine allow them to deliver GRID - a pure and cinematic race experience
- A GREATER, MORE DIVERSE, WORLD OF RACING: New and classic, track and street – conquer the greatest racetracks and then go beyond with road races and urban street competitions
- JUMP BEHIND THE WHEEL OF SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING CARS: Exotics, imports and beefy muscle cars are all available to race in hugely varied events with grids of up to twenty cars aggressively competing for the lead
- THREE DISTINCT RACING REGIONS: Europe, US and Japan are all beautifully designed, each with their own individual takes on racing: U.S.A – In thunderous V8 muscle cars, race diverse courses on city streets in flat out, door banging racing action; Japan – Reject traditional Western racing and drift over to Japan for action the fringes of legality in industrial areas and back streets from dusk 'till dawn; Europe – Race the famous tracks dominated by Le Mans in some of the most technologically advanced cars ever created such as the Ferrari F430 GT, Lamborghini Murcielago GTR, Aston Martin DBR9, Koenigsegg CCXR and Porsche 911 GT3-RSR
- EVERYTHING THAT COULD HAPPEN IN A RACE PROBABLY WILL: A GRID race tests a driver's skills at every turn -- crammed with high-impact moments such as, engine fires, tire blow outs, bump and runs, wild crashes involving flipping, spinning, and collisions with other cars and trackside objects
- ENHANCED EGO ENGINE DRIVES ALL NEW HIGH IMPACT CRASH DAMAGE AND SEQUENCES: Physics models will ensure that collisions and crashes yield the kind of spectacle that a Hollywood movie director would ask for. Slow motion will be used extensively to give replays the blockbuster treatment
- ONLINE RACING: Race your cars online in high-adrenaline multiplayer, multiple car events
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 43
 Gaming Hell! June 12, 2010
Phillip Taylor (HARLINGEN, TX, US)
This game is so buggy I'm embarassed to tell anybody I bought it. I've had to reinstall this game at least 15 times including at least 5 times in the past 24 hours alone. I suspect the Securom plays havoc with the game. Right now I finally got it to reinstall on the 5th try in the past 24 hours but its still not a perfect install. What prompted this was the executable just quit working suddeningly. This issue is well documented at the CodeMasters Forum site and other sites on the web. Now that I've got it installed the resolution is stuck at 800 x 600 with no way to change it in the graphic settings. Frame rate no longer shows up in graphic settings either. Those options just dissappeared. Again, this is no doubt the work of the Securom. Its as though my display options have been limited by the DRM to that of a DEMO game when I actually bought the full blown game new! My native resolution is 1920 x 1080 and I have played the game previously at that resolution with no problems. So the fact that it is stuck in 800 x 600 makes this game unplayable for me cause 800 x 600 is real ugly by comparison. All my other games work flawlessly at 1920 x 1080. That along with all the troubleshooting I've done (some 15 hours now) leaves no doubt that the problem lies with the game and probably Securom. For a while over the past 24 hours the Securom wouldn't even recognize my disk as legit even though it was bought new from Amazon. No Dameon Tools or any virtual imaging software of any type is installed on my machine. Don't expect any Tech Support from CodeMasters either they will just ignore your pleas for help. Now I have to reinstall my old Toca RaceCar Driver 3 just to have some car racing on my machine today. No, it's nowhere near as good as GRID is when it works but TOCA would be better than nothing right now. Needless to say, I'm done with CodeMasters. Not because the game is buggy, but because they refuse to lend any technical support.
 Bought this for my Fiance March 26, 2010
Danielle S. Navin
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not much of a gamer but my fiance really enjoys this game. He did have some difficulties with windows live and he couldn't save the game for a while but I think he got that figured out.
meh March 22, 2010
Jesse L. Nelson
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok so I spent some time playing GRID before I did my review of it. I got almost all the way to the highest circuit, which is global. Then I had to stop playing it because a few little annoyances. The big big annoyance is this high pitched sound which sounds almost like an airplane. I think it is supposed to be the sound of your tires at high speed. Its so loud that I can't hear my engine so I don't know when to shift unless I looked at the tach, but then I couldn't watch the road could I? The second annoyance is when the force feedback quits working randomly in the middle of the race. Sigh.
The game has great graphics. Game play is very fun. Physics are pretty bad, although better than need for speed shift. It has a bunch of really cool cars, but unfortunately, the poor physics makes them all drive like generic arcade race cars. I got really excited to see Nurburgring, but turns out its just the little GP course, not Nordschleife. Sigh.
The career mode is fun, build a team, win races, get sponsors, make money, and spend it on cars. Your can hire a teammate. He will run you off the road in the last lap and then call you dude though. Sigh. Really Codemasters, you couldn't figure out how to make your own teammate not run you off the road? I actually hire a really unskilled teammate so he will stay at the back and not sabotage my efforts.
The game could have overcame the generic physics if it has executed better on a few things. I own a force feedback racing wheel, and I found that I could race much better with the keyboard. That's not a good thing. Overall I don't think this is a very good driving game. Its a little better than need for speed shift, but thats not saying much. If you really want to race, GTR Evolution is still the best in my book.
Last of all, the annoying voice that is talking to you telling you to "push it", gets really annoying after the first few races. Once you have heard everything he has to say, it's time to shut him off. He adds nothing to the driving experience and neither does your teammate. If you get an American he will constantly be saying things like, "dude I'm like totally in 2nd place." Irritating.
Anyone who says this is a driving sim is full of crap. It's stuck in arcade mode permanently.
 one of the best March 11, 2010
M. Jones (usa)
Loved this game.
Very different from need for speed because of vehicular damage, but yet a vary vary sweet racing game, with some awesome cars and tracks, and some top notch competition.
 Great for the money February 21, 2010
Mark Twain (Provo, UT)
The graphics in this game are superb, but what many people dont understand before buying this game is that how good it is depends on how good your computer is. If you dont have a good graphics card or fast processor then dont bother. I dont understand why people complain about this game being too hard...? If the easy difficulty were any easier then it wouldnt be a game anymore! I beat the whole thing using my keypad- the way it was meant to be played; or with an xbox controller. It is not a simulation game, but is very entertaining
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