| GRID | 
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| From: Codemasters
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $50.49
You Save: $9.50 (16%)
Buy New/Used from $44.99
Avg. Customer Rating:   (26 reviews)
Sales Rank: 267
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 40206
Model: SGRIDP3US00
UPC: 767649402069
EAN: 0767649402069
ASIN: B00149V3CU
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
GRID is all about the race- that period from lights to flag, full of tension, pressure, noise, and action. GRID will take you to beautifully realized and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars, Grid will let you 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, you 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, each with their own atmosphere and events - play host 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.
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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: Read 21 more reviews...
 NO 2 PLAYER!!! August 25, 2008
You've already read other people's reviews and they are generally spot-on. However, they don't make it obvious that you can't have a friend over and play one-on-one. WTF? This is a COLOSSAL downgrade in my opinion. I can only play with people online or find a friend and drag him over and set him up on LAN play with his dedicated PS3/TV.
Great game, but you've been warned...
 Amazing Game August 24, 2008
At first, i was gonna get Burnout Paradise or GT 5 but some ppl recommended this game and i said what the heck lemme get. After playing the game i felt really happy bout it since its more real like not like GT 5 in which if you hit the fence your car doesnt get damaged or lose your speed.
And another great thing bout the game is that it has 3 different kinds of races like american cars, Japanese or Track races. I really recommend this game for all who are in favor of car games.
READ THIS August 19, 2008
If you are a racing game fan, then this game is a must have. A lot of people are comparing this to GT5, but I truely believe that you cannot compare the two games. Although the GT series games are freakin awesome, GRID is a heck of alot more nailbiting and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I think racing fans will enjoy playing this game because it still gives you a challenge and it is not a weak game. Winning a race is also so very very satisfying when you do win. Racing gamers MUST have this game in their library as well as Gran Turismo.
GRID August 17, 2008
I bought my PS3 and I chose 7 games to buy according to reviews that I read in the internet. GRID is definitely the most fun, beautiful and "fast" of them. Songs are great, graphics are awesome. You just put the game and you are always playing with great cars, good courses. You start racing for teams that lend you their cars, so the first races you play with Porsche, Lamborghini, 350Z, etc... So you begin playing with fast, beautiful and competitive cars. The crashes are awesome. It is my kind of game, I really loved it, you feel the speed, it is very realistic, . The other games I bought are awesome too, but some of them have too much videos in between, you play 5 minutes and watch a 10 min video. Anyway, I strongly recommend it. Have fun!
Great graphics, diverse, FUN!... but where's the tilt steering option?? August 16, 2008
Most other reviewers have said all there needs to be said. It's basically DIRT but less in-depth and more arcade-y, and all on paved roads (coulda called it PAVEMENT, but I guess they wanted to keep with the four-letter scheme!). Would have wished for more noticeable variation in handling between the vehicles (it is definitely there, but they basically all feel like oversized go-karts... which is not necessarily an awful thing, go-karts are FUN), and ability to tune or purchase upgrades, but as has been stated many times already, this is basically a game for people that just want to jump in, strap down, feel the exhilaration of (simulated) speed, and RACE! (without having to worry about team management too much)
But the main reason I deducted any stars is for the total lack of support of the six-axis tilt-sensitive steering option that made games like F1 Championship Edition so innovative and great (and is the main reason I chose to buy a PS3 over the XBOX360).
Overall, though, GRID is a diverse, exciting, beautifully rendered game with a little something for every racing fan. Highly recommended!!
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