This is a simple underdog story that will never shock the player with plot developments or twists, even if the featured performances are solid. The biggest disservice to the narrative is that the player is a nonfactor. Unfortunately, Grid Legends never digs deeper than that. To do so, Seneca must rely on a new, unproven driver and overtake Ravenwest, a scummy team with cocky drivers and owners. Unfortunately, Grid Legends wouldn’t make for a very good documentary.ĭriven to Glory follows the story of Seneca, a team in the fictional Grid World Series making a last-ditch effort to win a championship and keep the lights on. I could see games like Madden or FIFA successfully implementing a story mode like this. The documentary format is unique from most games and allows the gameplay and interviews to not get in each other’s way even though they are tied together. The idea of a sports or racing game’s narrative presenting itself as a documentary seems very promising. Unfortunately, Codemasters does not fully pull that off. characters, so it’s not too surprising that Codemasters wanted to go one step further and put faces and personalities to those names. Grid Legends will make players remember individual drivers with this system, even if they are faceless A.I. Grid Legends’ ace in the hole is that it does a fantastic job at making players feel like they earn their victories. The best moments in the campaign and the career mode were when I started at the back of the pack and had to fight my way to the front, dealing with the Nemesis system and commanding my teammate driver along the way. And for those interested, Grid Legends features robust cross-platform multiplayer that players can drop in and out of at any time. This makes the player have to account for aggressive driver tendencies from A.I., even though that’s an experience often reserved for multiplayer in racing games. driver, that driver will remember and get revenge by cutting the player off and being aggressive later in the race. If they are particularly aggressive toward an A.I. It features a Nemesis system ( not that one) that tracks whether the player gets a little too aggressive and is constantly bumping into and cutting off other drivers. It sounds good and plays fine, but there are very few things Grid Legends does better than any other racing game. And even if the player does mess up, there’s a handy flashbacks feature to rewind time up to three times in a race. Grid Legends is not as arcade-like as Forza Horizon, and it’s not an overly punishing simulation that will doom the player if they brake too hard at the wrong time. The standout race type is Elimination, a mode where the drivers in last place are disqualified at certain intervals, so players fight to be at the front of the pack for as long as possible. There are several different race types that players will experience over the Driven to Glory story campaign and the Career mode, where players complete races and sponsor challenges to earn currency and gain new abilities, stat boosts, and cars. Players looking for a standard racing game won’t have a bad time. These aren’t the highest-fidelity car models and there isn’t a vast open world to explore, but it isn’t ugly. There are over 100 tracks spread across the world and more than 100 cars of every type across notable brands to drive on them. Grid Legends features everything players have come to expect from a racing game. Grid Legends is simply an enjoyable, if underwhelming racing game overshadowed by the new Forza Horizon and Gran Turismo games it is being released between. While using this framing device for its narrative is innovative, the Driven to Glory storyline ultimately falls flat. Grid Legends is the culmination of that as its story mode is a live-action documentary about an underdog racing team. Developer Codemasters has always cared more about the story in its racing games than its competitors. The developers know the game is acceptable in these areas, so it tries to stand out with a unique approach to its narrative. From graphics to sound to gameplay, Grid Legends is perfectly adequate.
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