Date played: July 27th
Platform: PC
Session fun rating: 10/10
I just fucking love racing games. It's easily one of my favorite genres and unfortunately, there aren't that many great games in this genre in recent years. Codemasters is one of the few companies that still makes a real effort to make good, modern racing games.
I played a large chunk of Grid 2, making it through a lot of events in the third season. The tracks are all in Asia, featuring Honk Kong, Dubai and a few other places. Dubai is a very cool location for racing where many of the tracks are set around high rise construction sites.
There are three new event types here as well. Touge is a weird, one on one race with two rounds. The cool thing here is that if you gain a 5 second lead, you win by default. Also, you are disqualified if any contact is made between the two cars. Checkpoint races are straight out of an old arcade game. The objective is to travel the most distance in the allotted time. Driving through checkpoints adds time. It's a nice change of pace, but it feels out of place in this game. Finally, there is also a drift event. I only played one of them which was extremely short, but it was fun. The objective is to amass points by doing big drifts.
Platform: PC
Session fun rating: 10/10
I just fucking love racing games. It's easily one of my favorite genres and unfortunately, there aren't that many great games in this genre in recent years. Codemasters is one of the few companies that still makes a real effort to make good, modern racing games.
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| I love racing even more when it's this gorgeous |
There are three new event types here as well. Touge is a weird, one on one race with two rounds. The cool thing here is that if you gain a 5 second lead, you win by default. Also, you are disqualified if any contact is made between the two cars. Checkpoint races are straight out of an old arcade game. The objective is to travel the most distance in the allotted time. Driving through checkpoints adds time. It's a nice change of pace, but it feels out of place in this game. Finally, there is also a drift event. I only played one of them which was extremely short, but it was fun. The objective is to amass points by doing big drifts.
