Grid legends ps5 review full#

It’s great to see more developers realising people like to play with their friends and represent their own “team”. There are plenty of modes and options within Grid Legends, and the fact you can build your team and take it online is excellent. The DualSense triggers offer some nice resistance, but it’s not best-in-class in that respect. The HDR lighting sings as it breaches through the Eiffel Tower, or any of the numerous landmarks you’ll be racing near, while the weather makes cockpit-cam a lesson in focus. Open world experiences like Forza Horizon 5 prove that massive maps can look wonderful, but with 4K visuals and a smooth 60 frames per second, Grid Legends looks the business on PlayStation 5. You’ll go from London to Paris, and it looks superb. You’ll level up not only your racer level, but also the discipline you’re taking part in as well, which genuinely feels like an enjoyable experience throughout. Sticking to a racing line will net you extra points, as will making jumps and generally doing well. Few games ever focus on the slower cars, so it’s an enjoyable thing to try out. There’s open wheeled racing, high-speed content galore, but also some nice options to take tight corners in vehicles where you rarely get about 80-90MPH, which is enjoyable in its own way. Online and on higher difficulties these become veritable stress-fests, as you desperately try to keep a lead, or stay in the chase so as not to be booted out of the race. I don’t think that’s the case rather, it’s the in-game brake assistance fighting with the player input, so I’d recommend choosing your pre-sets but still tweaking the level of help Grid Legends offers.Įlimination is a riot, with a timer ticking down until the back two racers are kicked out. On medium difficulty, some of the assists are a little overbearing, and can even create an experience where it feels as though the frame pacing is off. With the story dealt with, the racing can actually take centre stage, and there are lots of cars and modes that are genuinely great fun. You’ll climb the ranks and there will be drama and emotion, and again, it’s a nice attempt, but it won’t end up the thing that pulls you back to the game over and over. It’s a commendable effort to include so much story in a racer like Grid Legends, but after an initially decent opening, it just peters out into something that exists between races. It’s never outright bad, and I should say the actors do a decent enough job. It never veers all the way into full-on Need for Speed territory, only instead of that dreadful “too cool for school” attitude, it just ticks along, taking itself pretty seriously. There’s the veteran competition who doesn’t take kindly to newbies but warms to you eventually the charming yet scruffy mechanic who can fix anything with an engine the utter asshole from a different company who only cares about winning at all costs… I could go on, but you get the picture. He believes in people, and values them over their talents, and after a litany of failures with the fledgling Seneca Team, he discovers you, “Driver 22”. The manager of Seneca Racing is a nice guy.

Grid legends ps5 review full#

The story is high on emotion, and full of cliché. READ MORE: ‘Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney’ gave me an enduring love for character design.Interjecting full motion cut-scenes featuring actors in between enjoyable races that have you competing on tracks from brilliantly-realised high profile locations all over the world is an interesting idea, but it just comes across like a Ricky Gervais-style mockumentary, and I don’t think it means to.

I’m not sure Grid Legends, despite its best efforts, achieves it either. Any racing games have tried and arguably failed to deliver a coherent story that isn’t rife for ridicule.