The AI balance was also better in Driven to Glory than it was in the standard career events I raced in November. Preview: Grid Legends looks fast and gets in its own way But the build I was given smoothed things out nicely, and I felt like I was hitting my braking points and apexes more naturally. Or, I don’t know, I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed two months ago and once I saw the shifting effect, couldn’t unsee it. The jerkiness and the lurching as the third-person camera emphasizes each gear change seems to have been modulated. As to that, let me revise an earlier criticism I made of Grid Legends in a preview back in November. The story held my attention, but its enjoyment doesn’t supersede the racing action. And lurking out there is the Ravenwest team, the class of the field, seeking their sixth Grid World Series championship. Your teammate is Yume Tanaka, who is moderately cooperative but mostly aloof to you, the new kid on the block. The player is the second driver on team Seneca, a striving privateer outfit headed by Marcus Ado (Miles Yekinni). Ncuti Gatwa (Netflix’s Sex Education) is the biggest star, as the breezy antagonist Valentin Manzi, who races for up-and-coming rival team Voltz. Driven to Glory spans 36 races, most of which begin with a two- or three-minute full-motion cinematic shot in mixed reality, the method The Mandalorian made famous. The mode is a typical superstar-on-the-rise tale, with the player as the center of attention. That’s not to say the story is boring it’s just difficult to tease out what’s really eating the ensemble cast of characters in Driven to Glory. The Grid World Series, an intriguing, multi-class worldwide tour, gets the fly-on-the-wall documentary treatment similar to Drive to Survive, but this format works best when the viewer is familiar with the subjects going in. Drive to Survive is a story of rivalries, after all, and fans understand the baggage that the teams and the drivers bring to every race. The challenge before Grid Legends’ “Driven to Glory” is to pull off the same thing with a fictitious racing league where the viewer has no context or expectations outside the game. Last year, the racing game specialists delivered “Braking Point,” a story campaign for F1 2021 that, although it lacked much replay value, was genuinely engaging and hit the kind of story beats that make Drive to Survive successful. We should find out exactly when in 2022 tomorrow.Grid Legends, launching in February, will be Codemasters’ second crack at a Netflix-style narrative mode, capitalizing on the mainstream interest in F1 : Drive to Survive, whose fourth season should premiere soon. GRID Legends will arrive on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC in 2022. The game will star Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa and is even using the same virtual set tech as used in Disney+ series The Mandalorian. The same video should also turn into the reveal once it goes live. You can check out a brief teaser of that story in the trailer below. We’ll be treated to full live action FMV scenes between races, framed as a fly-on-the-wall documentary team capturing the drama of the GRID World Series. GRID Legends was first announced back in the summer, and will be a heavily story-focused affair. The event will be hosted by the game’s creative director Chris Smith and social and community team member Chris Groves. Codemasters has also promised to confirm the release date for the game. We’ll get to see the first gameplay, new locations, events, cars and new features. Codemasters has confirmed it’ll be giving us our best look yet at upcoming racer GRID Legends before the weekend.Ī tweet from the official GRID account confirmed the news, declaring the team will show off the racer tomorrow at 4pm UK time.
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