The initial track, for instance, is filled with curves and tight corners that seem to emphasis drifting, but I often careened around corners too quickly, not being able to compensate for the next turn. ![]() There seems to be more emphasis on drifting than standard road and track racing, but while the track design in Grid 2 seems to favor arcade-style handling from the vehicles, there's a lot of initial trial and error that goes into making the drift system work well. Grid 2 still tries to ride the fence between sim and arcade style without excelling at either. The PC version of the game is the way to go if you're concerned about how good the game looks, but if you're primarily a console gamer, the Xbox 360 iteration stacks up well to the PS3, making either option viable. The version up for review is on the Xbox 360, but a quick comparison between this and the PS3 version didn't reveal any major differences beyond some very negligible variations in image quality. Grid 2 was recently released for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. I was pretty surprised to hear that a follow-up was planned, especially considering how much time had passed since the initial release. While the title enjoyed some popularity when it released, the positive word of mouth seemed to drop off quickly. In retrospect, Grid didn't do anything wrong, but it didn't do enough to set itself apart from other titles, and it also tried to blend realistic racing with arcade style controls. ![]() The original Grid did well with critics and players, but while it was a competent racer, there wasn't a whole lot that was remarkable about it in comparison to the best titles in the racing genre. One title that I don't hear mentioned in the same breath is Grid, which was developed by Codemasters and released five years ago. ![]() The racing genre is filled with a lot of stellar examples from the past eight years, with titles like Burnout Paradise, DiRT 3, Forza 3 and 4, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. We all have lists of our favorite first-person shooters, RPGs, fighters, etc. As this console generation slowly begins to wind down, we start to think about the best games in various genres.
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