Race Driver: Grid review - ColourShed
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Race Driver: Grid review
Platform: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Arcade, Nintendo DS
Release Year: 2008
Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Genre: Aracde/Simulation Racer
► Music (in order):
"Garage 2"
"Open the Box" by Geographer
"Replay 4"
"Stasis Attempt" by Max McFerren
"Ending Credits"
Race Driver: GRID Soundtrack composed by Ian Livingstone, Aaron Sapp, and Thomas J. Bergersen
► Gameplay, audio and images from:
Codemasters
EA Black Box
Electronic Arts
Naughty Dog
Polyphony Digital
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Turn 10 Studios
Xbox Game Studios
► RUclips video used:
"PC Longplay [523] Colin McRae Dirt (part 1 of 6)" by World of Longplays
• PC Longplay [523] Coli... 
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To this day I'm scared by how well-optimized the EGO engine is. Even my shittiest computers could run Codemasters' games.
To bad their greediness of dlc and taking content from a previous game they made and putting it back as dlc is stopping them from becoming better.
Just played it @ 165 fps locked with 110 fov. Amazing
It really is a fantastic engine. My PC is an absolute potato (anything PS3 equivalent or later is run on low/med), but I was stunned by how smoothly I was able to run GRID and the F1 games- not on ultra settings, but definitely on par with PS3 graphics plus a higher frame rate.
1.6 ghz pentium can run dirt 3 in 720p at 30fps (lowest)
Matt Slifka Specs?
Over a decade later, and it's still one of the best racing games ever made.
Couldnt agree more.
The damage model in this game is so satisfying. Way ahead of it's time.
And way better than almost anything that’s come out since. Sad to say because it’s been 12 years since this game released, but that’s just how racing games have turned out now. It’s way too expensive now to get the licensing for all that shit I guess.
@@MetalZeroFour Look up Wreckfest, if your fine with it being not real cars, its a game thats amazing
@@DevinEMILE I've got that game on my PS4 and PC! Been playing it since it came out on console and I had been previously following it for years. Definitely in my top 5 favorite games of all time
@@MetalZeroFour What about the Burnout series?
The DBZ_KING7 Those are cool! They’re just very arcadey, whereas GRID felt more realistic, and that’s just what I prefer. It immerses me more!
Best teammate in the game: Tom Rockford. If you win, he'll most likely be second right behind you.
tom is excellent early on in the game but after a while i found he just couldnt keep up anymore. i ended up swapping him for alex fletcher, who was really excellent for a long time. in the very later on events unfortunately he faltered a bit and would usually only finish middle-of-the-pack without my help, but at that point i was kinda attached to him since he was my homie for most of the game, so i couldnt bring myself to swap him out.
Haha yes
Tom FTW
TrentTheHedgie Tom is aggressive, especially when Ravenwest is in the event.
Since I usually go for the Japanese events, I picked Eiji Matzuke as my first teammate. He's mad at the Tuner events, even getting in front of me usually. But when he's not racing the Tuner cars, he's pretty awful (lol)
Racedriver GRID was and still is one of the most entertaining and complete racing games ever. It was an absolute masterpiece
Exactly. Time to revisit
Complete? Grid 2 has more and better tracks, looks 100x better, (but is Arcady as hell). Grid 1 doesn't even have SPA
... but it does have Spa
@@dannnsss8034 RACE DRIVER GRID has Spa Francorchamps bro. All the way till GRID LEGENDS.
@@jamthehuman 2023, Race Driver Grid still a true masterpiece.
4:25 They don't race in reverse because the asphalt becomes contoured in one direction over time
Driving the opposite way would eat up the tires.
Pretty Interesting
Also, the runoff areas are designed for driving in the normal direction, so the reverse layout will have little-to no runoff areas, making it very dangerous
The fact that the Orignal Grid looks better visually than the Reboot says a lot.
The fact the the Original Grid *PLAYS* better cathartically than the Reboot says a lot.
On the Xbox one version of the reboot I played, the input delay made it worthless
@@v4nd3l4yhomeboi5 GRID 2008 plays also whole lot better than F1 23.
@@drifter402 this also made Gran Turismo 7 an absolute joke.
This has been my favourite racer for nearly 13 years. It’s hazy sun-drenched look is a nice aesthetic, like watching the Sopranos. Game wise, the cars have a unique, weighty feel and your race coaches are more endearing than annoying. Fantastic game!
Protip: in LMP1 class, buying anything that's not the Audi just means you automatically lose, so don't bother.
I once tried the courage lmp1, and it works pretty well for a cheap start
I won a Le Mans with Creation once. Took a lot of sweat and swearing.
All you've gotta do is be a madman.
In the chicane directly before the finish line, I dont hit the brakes
Go to the outside and turn tight left
If done right, you'll carry all your speed and just barely miss the wall
it’s just like real life (back then)
Yeah !
For the hardware back in the day, DIRT 2007 one of the first really next-gen looking racers on X360/PS3. However the game is vastly more hardware intensive than the follow up: GRID. GRID was one of the most optimized games of all time.
Still better than the 2019 game.
@Hallison Michel If you can find it cheap, it's an alright game. Just not worth the full price. The original Grid had far more content and soul, but the 2019 game can be fun in small romps. Especially with the Mini.
@Hallison Michel If you care solely for the racing and the feel it gives you, its by no mean a bad game. The racing "feel" has always been a strength in Codemasters games.
The problem with the new game is how "empty" it is. The career mode is just a list put together with almost no structure, the teammates feel NOWHERE near as important as they did in the original game, content is a bit sparse here and there, and its another repeat of that awful "seasonal" DLC trend which usually consists of taking content from previous games and re-adding them but putting them behind a paywall.
Also the mutliplayer leaves a lot to be desired.
It left me with a bad taste and made me put off finishing the game for LPing it.
The cockpit camera was bugged for me, either it was too bright on day races or too dark on night races. That alone turned me off from the game...
Except that fucking piss yellow filter and the vaseline blur, that shit fucking puss me off.
@@zZiL341yRj736 If you have PC version, you can turn it off.
www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Race_Driver:_Grid#Disable_Bloom_.26_Blur_effects
Definitely my favorite Grid of the series, no doubt.
Can't agree more!
You are every where
OH MY GOD you again????
Midnight Club Still Cancelled Soz we meet again for the 100th time
You didn't put a pretentiously silly comment?
Vindicatiooon!
After playing Toca RD 3 for years, when I got Grid I really enjoyed the team building aspect of it. The teammates were a bit hit or miss, but you didn't mention how each teammate has their own specialty, such as touring car, tuner, etc. So asking an open wheeler driver to do a drift event (for example) would never go down well! It was more a case of either swapping out your teammate for each discipline, or picking a class and sticking it out until you've done all those events. Just another layer of depth to the team side of things!
Career mode is still the best in the GRID series IMO (can't say about 2019 as I haven't played it).
3:37 it's 12 minutes and can be changed in PC version with a simple edit to the database.
4:44 Mt Panorama is in one of DLCs, not officialy available in Windows version but all DLC can be added with a mod.
Grid 2019 is fun,but far worse than the original
The career mode in 2019 is actually shit
There is an option to set the Le Mans event to actual 24 hours if you feel tough enough
2019’s career mode is… uhh…
Best way I could describe it is: “What if the career mode was just a bunch of random objectives given to you without any explanation as to why that’s the case?”
@@sharl_leg none of the GRID games were good except the first one. the first one is probably one of the best sim-cade racing games ever made ever.... and probably ever will be made with how the industry is going
The Best Grid Game, Period
Me: *SETS A 50 LAP DEMOLITION DERBY WITH MALICIOUS INTENT*
Relatable. The derby was way more fun than it should have been, almost as fun as Wreckfest today !
To be honest I've been doing that and 1+ hour endurance races in the game after I beat it. Game is so good... But the PC version mine keep on studdering bad :c
*adds flying cars mode*
*epic wrecking intensifies*
With repulsor cheat 🤣
Hey ColourShed, I love that you make reviews from old games. Idk why so few are doing it, but I think it's better to review a game, when there isn't much "hype" for it anymore. I very liked the Idea with the team. It felt like you had a partner to climb the ladder. Please make more such good videos!
This is one of the only games I feel like you can play years after they were released and they still feel fresh, imo one of the best racing games ever
As a kid I loved that rewind option as I could do these massive cars collisions and still win the race at the end. I also was amaze, even years later, how good graphic was looking. Anyway so much good memories from that time. Music from the menu probably takes me to my favorite childhood days
This video was so beautiful, it caused me to colourshed a tear
Nobody talks about the AI. I never had a car blow a tire in front of me, spin out, or cause a major crash quite like this game. Fantastic action.
The damage model in the first grid is amazing
Grid is an amazing racing game
Something different from Forza and Gran Turismo
Much better than Forza and Gran Turismo in my opinion.
@@RedDeadRevolverunderstandable
I thought i was the only who reinstalled this game. I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE
multiplayer freestyle drift events were the absolute best. the loading screen stats were great too. so much nostalgia
I once had to wreck the other driver in the final race. it was a dirty move, but a win is a win. still a fun game to play though, hoping that it’s backwards compatible soon!
Was it Ravenwest?
Fuck those cheating bastards!
Not to mention the online mode in GRID was huge fun too ! Played it endlessly on 360 back in the day, made many good friends through GRID ... we've all grown up now. The feels man.
GRID is objectively the best arcade racer ever made, really don't understand how they couldnt just evolve this formula for their current games.
GRID still miles above even GT7 terms of damage model.
@@purwantiallan5089i don't think GT would want damage model, they gotta please the car manufacturer
I forgot GRID existed until this video. Thanks for the video! Great watch
Man I remember playing this game with my college mates. This was an incredible game. Completely hooked on it. Screw you Ravenwest!
Shioriko Mifune & Ayumu Uehara were the Ravenwest drivers in RACE DRIVER GRID.
"Forza is about collecting cars, Gran Turismo is about the sheer level of content"
You mean Gran Turismo is about the sheer level of cars you can collect?
Great review as always! Thanks for your amazing work!
Been looking to a review of this for a while and now that it's here I wasn't disappointed 👍
Great job on the review and it'll be interesting to see how you get on with the other GRID Games :)
amazing use of the PoP rewind feature sound effects and reduced-colour shots
Great video Spencer! 💙
A racing game that look mellow and depressing but yet professional and aggressive
Thanks so much for covering this Gem. Such a good video. Cheers!
The reason why real life races aren't done in reverse are mostly for safety reasons.
Since corners are taken in reverse, so does the angle of a potential crash change.
Most, if not all, circuits are designed in such a way to only support gravel pits and such from driving the circuit in one way. Driving in reverse would require a massive physical reconstruction, and putting down new gravel pits and other safety things. Some tracks even make it impossible to do so, due to public roads being in the way around the circuits, preventing the construction of new gravel pits. Or even roads of the circuit itself blocking the position of where a new gravel pit would have to be made.
Shame they could never recapture the magic of the first game with the sequels, The gameplay, visuals, cars, tracks, replays with that thumping matrix style music that made every race super intense.
I´ve been looking forward to this. One of the best racing games of all time, and one of my favourite reviewers! Keep it up!
Would love to see a review of TDU 2! Its my favourite racing game of all time and very different to what you have been reviewing so far :) Love all your videos
Finally this review came out. I had a feeling it was coming soon.
"At least have Mount Panorama"
Patch 1.2: am i a joke to you?
what wrong woth patch 1.2?
7:22 apart from a few drivers like tom rockford (for a while), the key to successful teammates is to keep swapping them based on their specialty for the most unlocked events of the same discipline/specialty; so like early in the game get gianni fazio since he doesnt charge for signing, race with him only in pro tuned (his specialty) till you win them all and then take on a different discipline only, at this point hire a new team mate that specializes in that discipline; this is how team progression was done in this game since you have 5-6 different disciplines for 2-3 types of cars (gt1, gt2, prototype, lmp1, lmp2, endurance) and a team mate that specializes in one of those disciplines will do badly in the others even though theyre pretty much the same type of cars
the rewind feature was a stroke of genius
I still remember doing the last race vs Ravenwest with the koenigsegg ccx, it took so many attempts, and I managed to win it only by wrecking the guy and racing alone
Nathan McKane is so annoying in this game 😢 😭
Fun fact: Bathurst actually is in Grid 1! It was originally made for an unfortunately-scrapped V8 Supercars DLC, but its still in the game through the Prestige DLC (I think)
I LOVE this game, fok that last race against the cheap Ravenwest though lol.
And the music, man, it has some great music.
Also, love the cheats you get after you finish it, specially repulsor field lol, too bad you didn't mention them.
On PC you can make your own custom paintjobs if you have the patience to modify some textures.
GRID is such a classic, was one of the first games i played where you could actually race in depth with Le Mans prototypes and Group C cars. also yeah the handling is insanely good
BTW You can actually race "24 hours" of le mans if you play it on race day (quick play) and set the timer to 24 hours (no pit stop) instead of 12 minutes. lol
V8 supercars were actually planned as a DLC for the game, but eventually got canned even if all the cars and Bathurst are still in the files on PC.
Im a sim racing fan, always been and will always be, but GRID is still to this day one of the game where i got the most fun while playing it. I remember not being able to put it down, i was literally addicted to it, even though it was an arcade racer, the intensity, the graphics and the immersion were years ahead of everything else on the market in my opinion. I also loved the cockpit view and the damage model, i truly loved this game, so much that its still in my top 10 of all time favorite racers even though its far from being a sim! I would love to get a remastered version of this game
There’s a magic to this game’s physics that are obviously arcade but there’s a definite reward for driving as if you were playing a simulation game taking proper racing lines and braking at optimal points as well as how much throttle you apply mid corner and exiting the corner. I feel as though it was designed to act similar to a simulation game but adjusted the system to make it (very) forgiving as if every car in the game would drive as they would in real life but exponentially better (acceleration, braking, handling, oversteer/understeer, etc). Phenomenal design and very fun to brand newcomers and veterans of the racing game genre. It’s up there in my top racing games of all time. Hell I think I enjoy it more than the critically acclaimed Most Wanted 2005 nfs game
Still playing it in 2021... Good game.
I didn't know I could get this nostalgic over a video game I haven't seen in a decade
This was the first modern racing game that really appealed to me when I was a kid and to this day it still remains my overall favorite. It's not realist, it has this dark aura I love so much but most people hate and doesn't feature as many cars as I wanted but has my favorite one (NSX) and to me this is more than enough. This game changed the way I saw racing games forever and is a spectacle of a title that I've played a lot on every platform. It represents the absolute peak for Codemasters and almost everything they developed afterwards wouldn't even get close to giving you the same feel the original Racedriver GRID always provides
"Legendary" is as much as I need to say about this game, immortal and a must-play for everyone that loves racing adrenaline at its finest
This is my favorite racing car game ever.
I think that the author of the video didn't mentioned what is, in my opinion, the most impressive thing in this game: the MUSIC...or better, the DYNAMIC MUSIC system !
Unfortunately this system is available in the game only during the head-to-head racing with Ravenwest once you finish a tier of challenges (there are only 10 in the whole game)...but is definitely worth experiencing! The faster you go, the more the volume pumps-up during those rare races. If you do an accident and you risk to loose concentration, the music goes quiter, waiting for you to catch up. Once you are closer to your adversary, the rhythm and basses kicks on harder and other instruments adds. It's something really exciting!!!
If you want to see what I'm talking about, you can check my channel, I have some videos in one of my playlists.
I hear you man, this is an ace game. Just wrote something about it myself. Shame the multiplayer servers are closed now.
I always loved to Grind this game and I even mod it to let you play All the Cars in every track/mode. It made more arcade and funny after your beat it countless times, but the thing that makes me come back to RD:Grid every single time to this Day is Drift. I just love it. You can make insane drifts and even it is very arcade, I feel i'm in control. Connecting every corner in 3 laps, making 20 million plus points is just Awesome and trying to make mountain drifts absolutely absurd speed is something that rewards more than almost any modern racing game : )
Thank for the "fresh" review !
I love this game I'm so glad ur reviewing it
Played it back when it was new and I really liked it back then. I did like the drifting and driving with the touring cars. The drawback is the bloody aggressive AI and all the broooooown.
Fun game and it is a lot more fun than Grid 2 and Autosport.
yeah the brown hurts
Autosport is better than this IMO, GRID 2 is the worst in the series though.
@@cheesyeurotrance95 The worst is 2019 GRID (less cars, less tracks, barely damage model, dead multiplayer, overpriced, bad career, no drift, no derby, no sponsors, no tunning, no public lobbies and much more fucked up things), Grid 2 was good besides this weird driving model. Grid 2019 shouldn't be called grid, it's just next boring arcade game with less content so it can't compete with Gran Turismo or Forza. I'm regretting buying this shit to these days.
You can remove the brown by editing a single true to false in the hardware config save file. After you do that, the game looks brand new.
A Le Mans race in this game is the greatest racing game experience i've ever had.
GRID 2 is alright, graphically it looks incredible but the physics are a little weird, it's very powerslidey so you get the most out of it by barreling into corners full speed like a monster which is a lot of fun, but i did miss the physics of the original.
I want a motorsport 4 review !
Great review of an amazing game. I played trough this one and the second part too. Hard to believe, but Intel was one of the sponsors of this series, and it runs surprisingly well on intel integrated VGA's. So in 2023 it runs decently on any PC, I recently played it on a laptop with an intel 4th gen i3 with no discrete GPU.
Have you ever thought about talking about Juiced?
I remember Juiced 2: HIN for the PS2 very fondly, but the PC version (and X360-PS3) are quite different and don't feel the same to me.
Love your videos!
I noticed this as well. I used to play it on my ps2. Since I don't have a ps2 any longer I played it on pc and it's totally something different compared to the ps2 versions. Ps2 games may be graphically inferior but are more superior when it comes to plain old fun and strategy
Had it for PS2 and Xbox 360, the newer gen consoles and PC had more features for ex the Veilside RX7 bodykit that the PS2 version did not have and better nitrous effects etc.
8:10 Allan McNish corner, same car..... gives me goosebumps
the first grid menu music is fire tho lol
Yeah !
I would really love if there’s a remastered version of this game! One of my favorite racing game ever!
Hey Mr. ColourShed, love your racing game reviews and would love to see you review Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift the video game, from 2006 on PS2. I remember it as being a fun street racing game with good graphics and physics for its time, with some great customization to boot. It seems to be forgotten about nowadays. I kind of view it as the NFS fast and furious game that never was. Hope you either remember, appreciate, or review it. cheers!
I remember loving this game and never stopping until I completed it 👍❤️
Honestly my only complaint about the game is the post processing filter. When using modifications that remove the brownish tint the game looks GORGEOUS.
I had this game back in 2009 I loved it
I have a ps3 that it's only game was grid for almost 2 years, I've played it even at a rf tv through an composite to rf converter and only had gray-scale, that was my first game that I've ever finished... I've bought other 2 games that weren't even near the quality of grid for me, needless to say that this game was part of my life at this point, and i think that i still need to play this game in a proper tv that have an HDMI input to relieve this awesome feeling of being the best driver in the game, oh and strangely enough i'm really good at drifting, don't know how but I'm unbeatable by the AI
4:45 Mount Panorama actually exists in this game through the Prestige DLC Pack.
Are you gonna review the other Grid games? And also the colin mcrae dirt games?
This is my favorite, and I played almost all the codemasters series starting from Toca 2
I dont know why but i enjoy older games and my friends think I’m weird bcuz I don’t care for the mainstream gaming ;/
Hey man you're not alone stay retro, your friends are the ones missing out. Many new games are also great but there's no reason not to also enjoy past classics alongside them.
I just downloaded this the other day and the damage physics is 100x better than 2019 version.
Same here man. Just got Daytona USA 1/2 via emulator on my PC and just playing the fuck out of em. Also my local arcade have San Francisco Rush 2049 and holy moly it's amazing. Just kept playing the game for hours and seem to be no one is interested in it... Hopefully it goes for sale. I was even shocked that game cabinet had a clutch pedals as well!
You ain't the only one I still play the maddens from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 era
You're not like other girls.
You can download the DLC patch for PC which include Mount Panorama and Mazda Furai. Also it doesnt hurt to remove the orange filter in the config files. 👍
This game reignited my love for racing sims, idk what it was but there was something about this game that kept me coming back for more, that AI was legit
Love this game! The open wheel car physics are great, such a thrill to ride them with a proper wheel...and it has LAN support on ps3!
Do you plan to review the rest of Grid games and Dirt series?
Have you ever had any requests to check out Tokyo Xtreme Racer series?
Grid and grid 2 ❤️❤️❤️
Love these 2 games so much !
I think I'm going to yoink your "hulkdigger" team color scheme for my copy of the game, it looks better than what I came up with.
I remember feeling sad about having to fire my crappy teammates because they all had their own accents and personalities and were generally pretty polite :')
Great review as usual, but I can't help but wonder where the Forza Motorsport 4 review is... You posted the FM3 review 8 months ago, and you have reviewed several racing games since. I hope it is in the pipelines as this is the most highly regarded Forza game to this day.
god this game was fucking amazing. those in-game voice tracks are burned into my brain forever lool
Such a shame you can't even buy it on steam anymore.
due to expired licences
glad i already got it on steam
@Hussy buy the game on a disk. I bought my one years ago and it is a disk.
@Hussy actually they do? I've bought a key like two weeks ago. Maybe its currently out of stock
If you can get a legit Steam key, or buy it from someone else who still has a gift copy, you can still download it from Steam.
Best menu music of any Codemasters game. With TOCA 2 being a close 2nd.
The intro song and main menu song are amazing. But the first grid is a masterpiece
this is one of my favorite racing games of all time. but im biased because i played it a lot as a kid lol
it's still the best game that gives the driving/racing feel the most to this day.
I would Say Grid is the Closest thing to perfect racing game that you'll ever get. I wish Grid 2008 had modding community. The game could use an ENB and some track mods with better drift physics.
When I played this for the first time... I was flying all over the place since I was not used to the fast paced physics of this game.
Edit: Finally completed the game, the physics became quite fun once i got used to them.
This game, NFS: Shift, and Flatout: UC, were the shit back then. I recently got a new laptop with a 120hz screen, and replay all these easy to run racers has been a pleasure.
Cant wait for Ford Racing 3 review
To be fair, the only Grid game I got into was Grid: Autosport. I was browsing through the in-game store and saw it. I enjoyed it the most. I only played Grid 2 on ps now for few days but never renewed it. I didn’t know TOCA was a thing before Grid. I’m on the fence on buying the reboot.
Don't waste your time and money, it's a snoozefest
My arguably favorite track racer. Nfs Prostreet and Gran Turismo 3 are close too
i downloaded 2019 grid with great expectations to only find myself downloading original grid again after a few hours in the game.
Yea the crash physics in that game is fucking dog shit compare to a game from 08.
Bathurst is actually in the first Grid however it was a DLC
You should really try DiRT Rally 1. For me it was the turning poing for rally games. It really proves how good is the EGO engine and how passionate Codemasters used to be. For me, one of the best games of this generation!
Loved this game. Great review