Race Driver: GRID trailer revs up, impresses
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Apr 4th 2008 at 6:00PM }
Can the DS do "serious" racing games? As things stand, there are three such titles due this year on the handheld: Evolution GT, Trackmania DS, and Race Driver: GRID. Developer Codemasters showed off the latter earlier today, and you can color us impressed. Watch the trailer above and you'll see pure, white stallions emerging from magnificently rendered waves that this is already looking remarkably fluid -- and that's with eight cars on track at once and an array of weather effects.
It's an early lead for GRID then, though there's every chance that Trackmania's vaunted track creation mode could see it pull back in front.
[Via press release]
It's an early lead for GRID then, though there's every chance that Trackmania's vaunted track creation mode could see it pull back in front.
Gallery: Race Driver: GRID
[Via press release]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bergasa @ Apr 4th 2008 7:47PM
Wow, they really ripped off the Transformers Beast Machines intro song there.
Pajama_Man @ Apr 4th 2008 11:05PM
Holy Cakes you're right!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qwASKWFpzQM&feature=related
Velvet Kennedy @ Apr 5th 2008 7:19PM
The song is "Phat Planet" by Leftfield - from all the way back in 1999.
jsutcliffe @ Apr 4th 2008 8:09PM
Not sure if you can call Trackmania "serious"
Kefka @ Apr 4th 2008 9:23PM
Those really are some pretty graphics for the DS. And they seemed to be running at a decent rate...
I hope that was all unshopped in game footage, though!
Would suck if it was "FMV crappy enough to look like real graphics" :P