Codemasters Studios to shift race gaming to a higher gear with Race Driver: GRID.

Race Driver: GRID confirmed as official title for intense new racing experience coming mid 2008 from the creators of Colin McRae: DiRT and Race Driver series.

Codemasters(R) today announced Race Driver: GRID(tm) as the full and official title for the game introduced under the working title of Race Driver One. Race Driver: GRID is the new racing experience from Codemasters Studios, creators of Colin McRae: DiRT(tm) and the Race Driver(tm) series, and is set to deliver a step-change in the racing genre.

Coming mid 2008, Race Driver: GRID is set to capture every moment from the starting grid to the chequered flag and concentrate those moments into an intense and dramatic race experience. Race Driver: GRID is being developed for the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft(R), the PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows(R).

"Race Driver: GRID is all about the race." said Gavin Raeburn, Executive Producer at Codemasters Studios. "The next iteration of our DiRT engine combined with a decade of experience in developing driving games enables us to put the player at the centre of the action like never before. Damage, packed grids, intelligent opposition and unprecedented race day atmosphere will combine to deliver an experience like no other.

Says Ralph Fulton, Chief Game Designer. "GRID focuses on everything that happens between the start grid and the chequered flag: the drama, the rivalries, the aggression and the crashes. This is not a game about collecting cars or spending all of your time in the front-end tuning suspension settings or designing liveries. We want to make racing exciting again."

Race Driver: GRID will take players to beautifully realised and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars - new and classic, circuit and drift - players will compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete in challenging city-based competitions, through to road events and urban street races.

In Europe, race gamers will compete on the greatest official tracks in prestige Marques including Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani.

Iconic cities across the U.S. - including San Francisco, Washington DC and Detroit and each with their own atmosphere and events - play hosts to diverse street races. Here, high-performance V8 muscle cars set the pace in aggressive closely fought pack competitions.

In the Far East, Japanese racing culture sets the tone where night races, including Drift racing, take drivers through neon illuminated cities and to outlying mountain roads. There is also the opportunity to compete in races that operate on the fringes of legality in the back streets and industrial areas of Yokohama.

Race Driver: GRID is coming mid 2008 for the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 system and Games for Windows. To register for future driver briefings and get a place on the grid, be sure to visit www.codemasters.co.uk/grid

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sauce: Kotaku and Gamersyde

I have to say the game looks gewd and hopefully this time the frame rate would be stable at 30fps (60fps would be awsome but i think it wont happen )

So macha, gonna get this one or not?

This post has been edited by gnome: May 9 2008, 06:49 PM

Oooo got AE86 Coupe.... and Tanaka's Scooby... hmmm what they got D1 mode and license now?

This post has been edited by MK84: Nov 30 2007, 12:11 PM

Got damage effect?

The graphics looks nice, but no damage effect no fun leh. Maybe better then forza 2.

I think it will have damage because the previous race driver game also got (iirc)

nampak macam PGR je...huhuhu...

racing game...
of coz im in...

except NFS series...
...and Juice series....

Wow the graphics looks quite realistic. Hope this doesn't turn out to be yet another nfs 'carbon' copy

Codemasters' Neon engine was developed with damage in mind. If you liked the damage model in DiRT, there's every possibility that this one will be more realistic.

I hope it won't be boring like PGR 3...

PGR3 online = teh best!

Especially when you tapau-ing the host

As long as it's not too lengthy as Dirt, this game is going to be on my list for sure

lengthy okay what

At least got more meat...although I can say that the meat in Dirt was quite a lot...

Hahaha, exactly!

All this meat talk makes me hungry. Luckily my mom cook rendang daging today

OMG!! the graphics damn mad!! the drifting ....hope can beat RR6 maybe same par with RR6 also can.

apa racing game pun saya beli ..btw this one continue from toca race driver 1 ,2 and 3 aH ? remember playing on the pc last time..LAG like sheeet..( i got low spec pc )

the graphics looks damn chun hmm.. if they focus more on 'racing' then will we able to tune the car ? maybe shifting the power of the scooby from awd to rwd ? should be able to tune abit gua..

our local boys at codemasters KL is doing a big portion of the art for the game.

Kudos to Codemasters Malaysia peeps!
Well, judging from the screenshot itself, it felt like PGR met DiRT.

looks like PGR with Dirt also to me... haha...
i hope that i won be that alike coz no point to buy...
like the racing track, the weather that they put in.