S2G - Grid 2

Grid 2

Release Date: 28-May-2013

Save System: Autosave at race completion.

Genre

RPG	[ ]	Racing (Simulation)	[✓]	Racing (Arcade)	[✓]	Puzzle	[ ]
Open World	[ ]	Fighting/Combat	[ ]	Action	[ ]	Survival	[ ]
First Person	[ ]	Third Person	[ ]	Shooter	[ ]	Horror	[ ]
Wrestling	[ ]	Sports	[ ]	Stealth	[ ]	Turn Based	[ ]

Download Save Files (PC)

File Size: 37 KB
Extract the downloaded rar file using Winrar or 7-Zip.
Paste the files in Windows Drive > ProgramData > Steam > *yoursteamid* >
Progress: All events 1st [95 on Normal, 69 on Easy, 2 on Very Easy]

Review

+ Plenty of race types - There are about 10 types of events in Grid 2, each one providing different racing experience.

+ Overtake events are fun. You get points to overtake traffic and also build a combo which breaks if you bump into anything. A suggestion for this event type use road cam.

+ Limited Rewinds - Forces you to strategise and use carefully.

+ Niether arcade nor simulation, instead a mix of both.

- Poor AI - Your opponents are either too easy to catch or sometimes they go into ultimate perfection mode not letting you catch up at all. This applies to first few positions but for more on higher difficulties. At normal or above and like many other racing games you either get to first position in first few turns or die trying for the rest of the race.

- Handling - It is very easy to drift in Grid 2, you can even get into drift without pressing any brakes. This affects in two ways first that drift events are way too easy. I easily managed twice or thrice the score of best opponent in almost all drift events. Secondly in other events cars are pain to handle. Staying away from walls and opponents is far from easy. These drifty cars easily spin out forcing you to completely rely on the rewinds. At beginning you may somehow manage it but in final two seasons when faster cars are given it could get real messy. Playing at a difficulty level lower then you usually select in racing games may help you.

- Forcing drift cars for normal race events - Cars are categorized into 3 types.
i. Grip, maintaining control over these cars is easy. They are fun to drive.
ii. Balanced, these cars drift a lot but you can still control them with some skill.
iii. Drift, these should be only used for drift events but the ridiculous thing is that these cars are forced upon you in regular events. This is where handling problem is felt the most.

- Touge events - Or I should say the most annoying event in Grid 2. Touge events are similar to NFS Carbon's pink slip events. A one on one race where you win either by taking lead of 5seconds or crossing the finish line first. If you make contact with opponent car you will be disqualified. Acceptable, but this shouldn't mean no matter who crashes into who you are the one to be disqualified. Here are few examples of how you can or can't get DQed in touge events.
i. You get hit from behind - DQed and yes if you hit opponent from behind still you get DQed.
ii. You start a drift at corner, your opponent chooses to go straight through you - DQed.
iii. You crash your car and opponent is negligent enough to brake and avoide collison - DQed. No you don't even get a chance to use your rewinds.
iv. Trading paint wont cause any DQ. Luckily there are very few touge events in the whole game.

- Poor implementation of difficulty settings - At times hard difficulty is a walk in park on other even easy seems unmanageable.

- Brutal opponents - There is no realism in the way other cars behave in a race. They stick to their race line and consider you invisible. At corners they take unrealistic sharp turns taking out anyone in their way.

- No Assists, not even racing line - Arcade racing games usually don't give option of racing line because you don't need one. Handling is easier in arcade games and precision is not required thus serving all kinds of gamers. Sims however give you racing lines and optional assists so that novice players can also enjoy while experienced players can raise up the difficulty or turn assists off. Well Grid 2 decided to give difficult handling, require precision in races and also choose to provide no assists or racing line. I am sorry but not everyone is a pro in gaming. Advice to casual gamers, stay away from Grid 2. This game is a perfect example why one should try the demo before getting the game itself.

- Other minor problems
i. Once you press rewind button there is no going back. You can't cancel it. Also you can't strategise you can't play/pause it to see the best place to resume your race.
ii. Irritating narrator - Keeps on saying the obious things and that too over and over again.
iii. No damage info of your car.
iv. No cockpit view cam.
v. In overtake events you can easily see opponent car bumping into every traffic car, there is no way they can score what they are shown to be scoring.
vi. For most of the events you are allowed to choose between 1 or 2 cars only.
vii. If you exit the race before finishing it you are considered to have lost and placed last. This obiously doesn't matter except if you don't like bad statistics where your average finish position will be reduced. So you can't even change your car without being called a looser.

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