Grid Legends

GRID Legends is the best the franchise has been in quite some time. The new story mode is engaging, fun and varied, the driving model feels precise yet accessible, and the amount of content and replay value is high enough to come back for weeks or months. It may not have the highest of production values in every aspect, and there are various (fortunately relatively rare) technical hiccups to fix in future updates, or maybe in the day one patch already. Yet, Codemasters’ new racer is a truly great experience on the track, with drama that renders nearly every race a memorable and exciting ride. ...

With GRID Legends, Codemasters has delivered one of the most generous and inclusive racing games of recent years. Though while its moment-to-moment action is pretty much second to none, its career mode just doesn’t quite get its hooks in you like it should. Throw in limited multiplayer offerings, and you have a racing game that’s great but not spectacular. If you want to fling cars around a whole load of city-based tracks and gleefully trade paint with your competitors, this is the racing game for you. Just don’t go in expecting to get all that invested in your career exploits.

GRID Legends misses a few opportunities to be truly excellent, but still exceeds the limitations of its predecessor to become arguably the best GRID game yet.

With Grid Legends, Codemasters has taken a different tack to try and make a racing game that has broad market appeal. Besides the traditional career path that is standard with racing game, Grid Legends has added a Story Mode. In this narrative branch of the game, you play as Driver 22, a rookie driver, looking to make your mark in racing. An opportunity arises when one a racing team loses one of their drivers. This team is struggling though. They’ve not had much success in their previous seasons and are on the brink of failure. The owner, drivers, and crew have everything riding on attaining s...

Grid Legends is a more than capable racer but not quite up to par with Codemasters' previous games.

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GRID Legends finds itself in a bit of a tough spot. Launching a racing game in close proximity to any competition can be a bit dicey, but Codemaster’s latest entry in the GRID series is releasing just a mere week ahead of Polyphony’s much-anticipated Gran Turismo 7. Considering the near nine-year gap since the last properly numbered Gran Turismo game, hype levels are understandably sky high; can GRID Legends rise above the noise and prove its own worth?

Although its addition of plot and characters doesn’t quite work the racing action is as thrilling as ever, with a huge diversity of vehicles and the compelling handling fans have come to expect from the series.

Codemasters and EA made a risky decision to release GRID Legends just one week ahead of Gran Turismo 7. It turns out they prepared some strong arguments against this gargantuan rival, but is it enough to avoid a road disaster?

“Grid Legends' Driven to Glory story misses more than it hits, but this is an otherwise solid, if unambitious, racing game.”

GRID Legends builds on the foundations of the 2019 reboot, improving the driving experience in certain areas, adding a big new story mode, and throwing more variables and variety into the mix. There's enjoyable, pulpy action racing to be had here, but some of the fundamental weaknesses from the last game remain, and as the racing game community increasingly looks toward sim racing, it feels like this franchise is in need of another reinvention.