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Hit the credits and wondered if it was too soon for a second playthrough.

Getting more frags than i ever did in COD

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This game was great. Now the devs have stuffed about with the game and made it worse... Not what i paid for!!!

Best thing about this beta is that you can play the game for 45 minutes and see how amazingly bad it is without having to waste your money on it.

Cure for constipation 11/10

When I was looking at some information on this game, I found a quote from Codemasters in relation to the length of time it would take to complete Grid 2. This game is supposed to take more than 30 hours to complete.

“We’ve noticed a trend in recent years with some of the supposedly ‘big’ games that were actually six hours long, and we didn’t feel that was sufficient value for money for our fans at all. We wanted to make sure there was so much more for them to do.”

Normally I would complete a game prior to reviewing it, but in this instance I could not bring myself to do it. I will start with the cons first as this will give me some time to think of something good that this game has to offer.

Cons:

• Realism in this game has gone out the window. Codemasters pride themselves in the amount of effort they spend on realism in their F1 series. Unfortunately this is the only series that has remained true to its original. The original grid game was a lot of fun and on both the Xbox and PC version I have spent untold hours playing (mainly drifting) and hat a lot of fun. This game just doesn’t have the same appeal. Even The Colin McRae series died along with Colin Dirt 1 was the last of the series that was any good. Dirt 2 was supposed to be a homage to Colin McRae, but it was appalling.
  
  
• Drifting: DRIFTS ARE NOT POPPING THE HANDBRAKE AND DOING A LITTLE SLIDE ROUND THE CORNER. Grid was so much fun when it came to the drift challenges. There was nothing more satisfying than pulling off a linked chain of drifts for an entire lap and then watching the replay for that satisfaction. All you do in this game is pull the handbrake (or E-Brake) coming in to a corner, do a little slide, drive up to the next corner and repeat. You cannot keep drifts going in this game. For those of you that are looking at buying this game to relive those font memories of drifting around an entire track but with revised graphics, don’t bother. Just like me, you will be sorely disappointed.
  
  
• Your friendly AI team coordinator that is in your ear every race: Even if your mechanical knowledge is strictly limited to knowing where the fuel goes in to your car, you will find the commentators remarks cringe worthy. Unfortunately when he first introduced himself at the start of the game, something in the back of my mind was telling me that this game was not going to live up to its predecessor.
  
  
• It’s not fun: There are 2 types of games, ones that you look at the time and think; “gees, is that the time, I should have eaten 5 hours ago” and those that make you look at the clock like you are at work and are waiting impatiently for 5:00 so you can go home and do something FUN. Grid 2 falls in to the latter category.
  
  
• No cockpit view… Not that it matters in an arcade racer… But it was a real game it would need an in car view.

Pros Pro

• It looks pretty.

Codemasters should look at creating entire new games when they want to change from realism to arcade, instead of leeching off the popularity of their previous games and developing cruddy arcade racers. Basically, this game would be better if they didn’t call it Grid 2 and get everyone’s hopes up.

There’s an achievement to blow someone’s balls off at 100 meters… 10/10

If your entire gaming life does not evolve around; no scoping, noob tubing, running and gunning and you would like to play an adventure game with a dark side then you will enjoy this.

Its one of those games that you can kick back with a controller, play it and get some enjoyment out of it. The game does have an eerie feel to it, but nothing that’s going to ruin your trousers.

The cases are a little easy to solve. But I think the goal was to make a game that was fun to play and not something that you would get frustrated with and stop playing half way through.

Not normally one for hack & slash games, but I did find this game quite enjoyable. Graphics and gameplay are awesome. There was something quite satisfying about beating the crap out of hordes of enemies.

The only thing that struck me as a little odd was that the boss fights were way too easy. I remember (back in my day) when boss fights were challenging, really challenging, to the point that when you get to them there’s a slight feeling of dread at the beginning of every boss fight and a sigh of relief once you finally beat them. But in DMC you get to the stage that when you see a boss health bar you just see it as another monster that just takes a bit longer to dispatch.