Race Driver One Renamed GRID, Platforms Listed

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Announced earlier this year as Race Driver One, Codemasters has renamed its upcoming on-road racing title GRID for North American audiences and Race Driver: GRID for those in Europe.

Due out on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in mid-2008, GRID has players racing through various real-life locales in the United States, Europe, and Japan while sustaining realistic damage to their vehicles. The latest evolution of Codemaster's TOCA Tour Driving and TOCA Race Driver franchises is being developed at Codemasters Studios by the team that handled the off-road rally effort Colin McRae: DiRT (PC, PS3, X360) and uses an enhanced version of DiRT's Neon game engine.

"This is not a game about collecting cars or spending all of your time in the front-end tuning suspension settings or designing liveries," noted chief game designer Ralph Fulton. "We want to make racing exciting again."

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    November 29, 2007 9:56 AM

    Sounds like a decent mash-up of TOCA and PGR. I like the sound of that, because the only PC racing game I have at the moment is NFS: MW.

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      November 29, 2007 9:59 AM

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        November 29, 2007 10:06 AM

        Richard Burns Rally

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          November 29, 2007 10:46 AM

          That one kept crashing in the main menu on my computer, even after the patch.

          I love racing games, I think consoles are much better suited for this genre. Playing with a controller and consistent framerates while sitting on a sofa or some comfy chair is just so nice.

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        November 29, 2007 10:46 AM

        GTR and GTR2 by simbin. Those games rival anything out there if you like sims.

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