12pm. It’s late and everyone is asleep in the house. Patterns of light create a fast moving kaleidoscope of colours that dance on quiet walls. “Waiting for players” is glowing beside the rev counter, it’s needle is lifeless on 0 RPM. Fingers lightly dance of the triggers, squeezing subconsciously as we wait for all players to join the room. Voices crackle in and out of the ear piece as the grid is finally filled. Red lights fill before winking out, 12 touring cars slingshot down the straight, three or four abreast before the inevitable brown trouser moment at turn one…..
The game is TOCA motorsport and it’s being played on the original Xbox, the year must be around 2002. Games such as this defined Xbox LIVE and for those joining the service like myself back then were in awe of how good, and how special it was to play against eleven like minded virtual drivers on the world’s most illustrious tracks. With the Caffeine driven DiRT series and the F1 franchise draining Codemasters resources, one would be forgiven for lamenting the loss of the TOCA heritage, but of course five years ago GRiD came hurtling onto our consoles and whilst not TOCA, it surely is it’s spiritual successor.
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I already have it on disc for 360 so you can still get on physical but those who didnt get on digital... you snooze you lose.
Indeed and if you are a PC gamer they were giving it away free recently so no excuse :D
Ugh, damn glad I bought that game with all the dlc when it was on sale. I almost didn't buy it. At least give us a heads up before removing the game? I can't just add to cart because I currently feel like playing the game at the time. Now I add to cart from the fear of it being d-listed without notice. Just like ACIII and TDU 2. I had Alpha Protocol on my wishlist and then that suddenly got removed silently and now it's too late!
GRID 2 is a fantastic racing title, with the first game in the series winning a BAFTA award back in 2009, and now, GRID 2 is free on Steam.
Last chance to get it, from next week it will be gone from steam store for good.
@Gwiz I'd have to assume this is due to licensing issues, since there's so many cars.
Great game, but I can only play if for 5 minutes before it crashes and I have to boot the game again. It's a widely known issue on Windows 10 with no fix and no expected update for it either.
The Humble Store is giving away free copies of GRID 2 + Bathurst & Spa Circuits DLC. The free game promotion runs from Thursday, March 14 at 1 PM Eastern until Sunday, March 17 at 1 PM Eastern (or while supplies last).
These humblebundle giveaway articles always take awhile to get approved on here, I already grabbed this game yesterday.
First free humble bundle game I've seen since IGN bought them out. They used to do it every month. Hopefully they start it again.
You can't be checking them very often then.
Grid 2, Insurgency, Deponia: The Complete Journey, A Story About My Uncle, Lego: The Hobbit and Lego: Lord of the Rings (twice each),Outcast: Second Contact, Sins of A Solar Empire: Rebellion, Meadow, The Ship: Murder Party, Braveland, Warhammer 4000: Space Marine, Guns of Icarus Alliance, Shadowrun Returns: Deluxe, Hacknet: Deluxe, 12 is better than 6, AI War: Fleet Command, Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition, Whispering Willows, Millenium: A New Hope, The Flame in the Flood, Satellite Reign, HackyZack, Spec Ops: The Line, The Darkness 2, F1 2015
These are all of the games I got for free from Humble Bundle in the last year.
im gonna pay $60 to play Grid Autosport on my Nintendo Switch, if i had the GPD Win 2 i coulda got this and had a similar experience for FREE
I wouldn't give it 9/10. It's a way too high score for a game like this. Considering it's pros and cons which are obvious, I would give it 7/10 max. If it was a $10 game then yep - it deserves 8/10 or even 8.5/10. But for $25 I want to see more cars, more real tracks so it won't get boring after a week of playing.
7/10 imo. they could have might as well called this game 'drift 2'.
all rwd drives handle the same(applies to fwd and the 4wd as well).
i guess i might be in the minority on this one but i miss the cockpit view.
It didn't have enough tracks as well