Product Description

GRID is all about 40 of the most incredible race cars ever created with the finest AI.  GRID is about revolutionary damage to vehicles and environments that affect your race and blow your mind.  GRID is about the most complete replay packages, letting you relive the moments of your glory or destruction in jaw-dropping hi-res slow-motion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2941 in Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters
• Model: SGRIDDSUS00
• Released on: 2008-08-05
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .63" h x 4.97" w x 5.73" l, .25 pounds

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

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

A wonderful and enjoyable racer for the DS
When it comes to street racing games for the DS, you don't have an awful lot of choices. Other than the Need for Speed series, there isn't much that's worth playing on the DS in this department, but thankfully, Grid manages to provide street racing gamers a pretty good time. Offering a decent amount of races, events, and options; Grid mixes elements of arcade racing with simulation as well, providing a pretty good experience. There's a great selection of licensed cars to pick from as well, and despite some occasionally odd graphical hiccups, they all look great for a DS game. In fact, Grid as a whole looks pretty good, with the surrounding areas looking fairly detailed. What really makes Grid worthwhile though is the robust track creator, which also allows you to share created tracks with friends via the DS' Wi-Fi capability. Multiplayer racing is a blast as well, offering a good amount of options and varieties. The only drawbacks to Grid includes the fact that the game as a whole just isn't all that hard once you get the hang of it. Not to mention that the game doesn't really have a great sense of speed to it, as you often feel as if you're not going as fast as you should be. Flaws aside though, Grid is a surprisingly wonderful racing game that DS owners should definitely check out whether they're into street racers or not, and as far as third-party published racing games for the DS go, you can't really do much better than what you find here.

Driving through the GRID
GRID is an interesting game. It is a wonderful racing game that really shows what the DS is capable of. It allows for damage and the effects on how the car handles, and even allows you to tweak the cars performance some. It will not be mistaken for a game like Gran Turismo, since the depth is no where near that title. (C'mon, it's meant as a more arcade-style racer, you know that is why you would buy a title like this.) I am quite satisfied with it, since the arcadey type controls make driving the car easier then the drift-style cars of GT or any of Namco/Bandai's Ridge Racer titles. Overall, it is worth the money at $20, and even would have been worth it at 25 or 30. Overall, fun title.

Grid-DS
Kids and adults like the game. Its worth buying if you like this sort of thing.