Why Should You Play Grid Legends!? (Criminally Underrated!) 

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A true racing gem that deserves to be praised. I understand for many is all about GT7, Forza, Assetto Corsa, F1, iRacing etc,..but I've been having lots of fun with this one lately mainly because of its simplicity which reminds me of classic gaming. This game wont force you to purchase or unlock anything if you dont want to. It already offers plenty, handles well, and looks the part. If you have friends to race with and a sim rig it gets even better.

This is one of the monthly on PS+ this month. Must give it a go.

One of the best racing titles for a good many years. Outplays even GT7 with it’s minimalist menu book ridiculous mode of play. If the Grid Legends devs included customisation & paint/decal/wraps it would outclass NFS which gets a mention in this video. Great camera options, I play 90% from the in-car driving seat position. Highly realistic as to real world driving. 10 out of 10 for Grid Legends 😊 Also, the drifting events in the original Race Driver Grid were superb, better than any racing game ever developed. Hopefully the next Grid title will be an improvement to what is already a great game.

The sense of speed in GRID Legends is an improvement too. When you're going fast, you'll feel it. I feel like GRID Legends just came at a bad time, nobody really gave it a chance. It's just very underrated.

I tried it it's arcady but it's the only racing game I didn't get bored after driving for 1 hour this game is so underrated

you are right, this was in my opinion, at least twice as better than 2019 Grid, with the driving being 2 and a half times better, I could not even play that first game, with all those baked in assists and inconsistent physics this one with assists off was actually playable to a degree, you could control your braking and turn ins, still the gearing is way to short to not just stick on semi auto. I liked the story unfortunately skipped like half the cut scenes by accident after the races by instinctively pressing x multiple to get past the XP tally screens another great video my dude, but seriously man, why did you make a million youtube ''shorts' out of your wanted dead review lol??? still cannot wait to play wanted dead keep on keeping on, you are an inspiration and always a fun watch

I have 3 of these GRID games now - Grid Autosport, Grid 2, and now Grid Legends. If you now throw in Shift 2 and Project Cars 3 which I also have, gives me quite allot of variety of great Arcade racing. I also play these games in VR with the Quest 3 - most of them I use VORPX to give me the 3D viewing while racing. Project Cars 3 is the only one that does a good true VR viewing. I use a Thrustmaster TMX wheel controller for all the games and works very well. There were 2 other GRID games but for some reason wasn't aware of them or were not listed on STEAM when I first bought Grid Autosport.. Besides all my great SIM racing games, these to me are also fun to jump in, select a track or event, and do the short races on. We shall see if the Saga continues and will there will be another GRID game in the future. Thanks for the video, take care.

I love Grid Legends! I have it due to getting it on ps+ (PS5) two months ago, but I've only played it today (08/07/2023). I have the standard edition, but I might get the deluxe edition upgrade and all the other dlc's soon! I still play FH4 and FH5 the most on my Xbox Series X!

One of the best, most approachable racers (especially for a sim style racer) I’ve played in a while. The story does a great job having you invested somewhat to your opponents, building your own storylines through gameplay. Played this just to test out about a week ago and haven’t put it down.

I like the actual driving better in grid than NFS. The first person in car view is great. I like the upgrades and progression better in nfs.

I would say this is the most underrated racing game. Being able to modify your car would be nice and more tuning options but it’s really a great game

A game I'm actually shocked you haven't talked about - Resident Evil 4 Remake. Question is why?

Great review for someone like me who isn't great at racing games. I like the difficulty options in the game.

Grid legends is such an underrated game, i expected grid 2019 but nicer looking and instead i got the best racer i have ever played with tons of customisation, car and track variety. the ai is fun as hell and very challenging and the race creator is the best thing codemasters has put into one of their games. the game looks and sounds gorgeous too and its racing is both accessible to newcomers and hardened pros thanks to its great difficulty settings and tweakable ajustments to how the cars behave. its a shame it will probably get delisted in a few years because i really think this is the best racer codemasters has made, even compared to the original grid and the DiRT trilogy, its a spotless gem in there lineup. the game and DLC is a bit expensive though lol and in terms of ranking this with the rest of the seires i would say that this is the best one for me, then grid 2, then racedriver grid and then grid 2019 (i never played autosport lmao)

I’m like 12 races into the campaign and I’m easily finishing them in 1st place and I’m not good at racing games…does the campaign get more challenging or should I turn the difficulty up?

I got this for free (ps+) after main story and earning my up to semi pro i bought the dlc which was really good, except for the Derby dlc. This game is beautiful. I enjoyed getting a relaxed pro mode game an moving away from NFS style racing. Great gameplay and the chessy story is golden lol Fantastic Game in

Great ArcadeSim racer, never gets boring, more entertaining and variety of cars/events, just minor flaws, no racer is perfect 8/10 👌

now 90% off on steam sale, i will give it a try, thank you for the video =)

Started playing this last night. I haven't had this much fun with a racing game since Forza Motorsport 4. Sleeper for sure.

One of my favorites 😍 it's more like a simulator than an arcade racer, the force feedback on a Fanatec DD wheel is AMAZING!!!! ❤

Legends is the best GRiD game after Race Driver GRiD 2007

Stranger and Grid are definitely underrated

Man I picked up Forza 5 and was bored within an hour. This looks way more my speed especially with the story elements. Appreciate you shedding some light on it. It's on Game Pass right now so I'll check it out

Your comments on the marketing side of this make me so, so sad... because they're true. I didn't even catch the existence of NFS: Heat until a couple of months back, and that was in itself because I forgot about 2022's Unbound until I came across a video titled "NFS Unbound: close to greatness" or something to that effect. Granted, the series had a whole bunch of duds in the meantime (the 2015 reboot, Payback) that I had the chance to try and never really liked, so I tuned out of NFS. But I got Unbound now and I haven't been this happy with NFS since at least Hot Pursuit (the Criterion one). Same with Grid Legends. I had this game on PC since Prime Gaming gave it away, but never bothered to even install it. But when Unbound hooked me up on racing games once more, I started to (re-)install several of them to check them out. Legends was one of the best surprises I had in this journey. How a racing game this good could be overlooked? It's almost criminal. PS Plus users should not miss it this month. Myself, I am so happy with this game that I even bought a physical copy regardless. Getting two digital copies for "free" (through subscriptions) felt like cheating. Codemasters deserves money for this, it's just fair.

Not only did EA not market this game properly, but they also released it between Elden Ring and Gran Turismo 7, another behemoth racing game (on PlayStation though). When I heard that EA bought Codemasters, I became really concerned and have prepared myself for the death of this studio. For those unaware, EA purchases studios that make good/great games and start messing with their development to make them more money, resulting in poor quality games, less sales and ultimately shutdown of the studio. I think EA bought Codemasters because they have the F1 license and it's an annual money-maker like FIFA. But before the acquisition, I was mostly unbothered with F1 series because none of the Codemasters games had any kind of malicious designs like overdone microtransactions, pushing people to buy more and for more price, etc. The issues were mostly either subjective or just poor design, nothing that'll make you think that you were exploited playing their games. No matter how good their games are, Codemasters almost always have a solid handling that feels predictable and connects you well to your car. Since I follow NFS a lot, I know that EA doesn't give the studios enough resources to make a game that lives up to the expectations of the past titles, they're treated as lower priority studios and often get pulled to assist bigger studios on bigger projects like Battlefield, which is why NFS fans kinda hate that series now. I fear that Codemasters will suffer the same fate of neglect and unreasonable expectations. Lastly, I have to rant about the story mode... I don't understand why people keep saying this story is bad, cheesy, over-the-top, or cliche. You have no idea what any of those are. You're playing a sim-cade racing game where you bump an opponent out of your way and get no penalties. You do that IRL and you're gonna get banned, so you can't expect rEaLiSm from the story, it's written in a way that accommodates YOUR actions in the fictional world. All the characters feel like they belong in the story and have reasons to do what they're doing, and the best part is that none of them are annoying, like we see in most modern games. This game had one of the best stories among the racing games released recently.

Agreed! Great game, highly underrated 💯

I believe I bought this game upon your recommendation a while back. Did you review this one earlier?

Look, I already have that game and I have played it before.

Very fun but the meta quest version stopped running. Would like to get money back and buy on steam instead then do vr with that. Vr is awesome

The game is really cool, but there's nobody playing online.

Looks like i am late to this party. I have just started playing this and cant find many online.

This game is the best racing game ever, the story mode took me about 3 hrs to complete but now im tuning cars and i like the way its not to technical to play, the graphics and game play is brilliant.

I just bought a PS5 and I bought Grid Legends as one of my games. I seen it was $10 new. I'm playing it now and I love this game. I just wish there was music in the races but I'd rather there be 0 music than bad music. Remember NFS Heat? That whole soundtrack in that game was some Latin salsa dancing music during the races.. It was horrible. Great game though I haven't touched a Gran Turismo game since PS3. Those racing games became SUPER boring to me. Never got the hype. It's a massive game but all the cars sound the same. Mustang sounds like a Civic. The racing felt incredibly slow compared to games like NFS.. Going 100mph feels 3x faster in NFS than going 200mph in Gran Turismo. I don't understand how that racing game is so slow but is rated the best. It's more like a RPG racer than a racing game to me. NFS remains my favorite but I like this Grid Legends.

Ime not great at arcade and sim games ,but i dont buy them for that reason, i buy them because there great fun, and at the end of the day, thats all that matters.😊

its a great game but i actuallyliked the car handling in 2019 better and none of these compare to the first two games

£6 at cex,and yes highly underTed

You own a driving wheel? These games are more fun with those

Joe: thanks for the review on this one. As an original TOCA 2 and TOCA 3, die-hard, i did have hope for this title. Unfortunately, i just cannot get past all the exaggerated bright colors and *fireworks.* Every lap, seriously? It's a shame, because i love the generous array of dash/interior camera perspectives offered. That said, did you ever play the 6th gen TOCA Race Driver titles? IMO, TOCA 2 & TOCA 3 hold up very well, and consequently rank in my all-time top 40 Xbox titles. Take care, Joe. Vinny

My fav Grid games are: the first one and Grid Autosport.... Something about this one felt off for me.... 😐

They gave this shit away for free it sucks so bad. I still will never play it.

What realism?😅

Worst racing game I have ever played. If you like to feel like a 5 year old again you should play it, if not save your money. Play anything else because this feels like it drives itself and so it kills the thrill... You want an arcade racer? Play Assetto Corsa with full TC and SC, the best "arcade" feeling you can get 👌

No, you play it..............ow wait you did

No, don't buy this shit. Playing a racing game with heavy/critical performance issues doesn't make any sense The performance are very bad on all platforms, next gen console in the specific. Don't listen the video author please

All games are simulators, arcades don't exist anymore.

I despise the majority of the gaming community and also the people that the first GRID is worth a damn and to hell with everything else in the series, trying to be adamant in bringing down the relevance of this awesome game like it's a damn witch hunt, and that is exactly what it is, a witch hunt for this game! I'm very glad there is people like you that care a lot of this game, as do I. It's still 2023, and i'm still playing it, to hell with all the anti-grid morons that say that they love the Original Race Driver GRID and everything else is dead to them, those people make me sick. If you love action packed automobile racers, then you need to play this game a hundred percent. Project Cars 3 is also an awesome GRID-like game too, it's not a sequel to PC2, but it's awesome as a NFS Shift-like or GRID-like game that everyone should give a try.

iv just down loaded it,,, whats the online community like ?