Today Bandai Namco Games America and Codemasters announced that the next racing game in the award-winning Grid series will be Grid Autosport, set to ship on June 24th in the Americas for the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, Windows PC from Steam and for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system.
Grid Autosport will bring alive the experience of becoming a professional racing driver in a new world of contemporary and classic motorsport. Drawing in spirit from classic Codemasters titles such as the Toca series, developed in conjunction with community feedback and retaining the core GRID focus of ‘being all about the race’, gamers will experience a world of breadth, of depth, of intensity and of course, of the excitement that only racing cars can deliver.
Racing alongside a teammate, players must overcome key rivals and satisfy team sponsors in ferocious races where every pass and position counts. In GRID Autosport’s huge career mode, gamers will specialize in their favorite racing discipline or conquer them all; players will feel the aggression of the pack in Touring Cars, manage tire wear and race into the night in Endurance events, race Open-Wheel cars with precision, show car control in Tuner events and react on-the-fly in Street races.
Each unique category features series dedicated to different classes, including Touring Cars, Hypercars, Endurance GT Cars, Prototypes, Single-Seaters, Super Modified vehicles, Drift cars and many, many more. The drift events are set to be exhilarating with enough thrills to satisfy even the most diehard drifting fans. Back in the real world, the drifting events may inspire people to build their own drifting machines using a 240sx shell as a platform to work on from the ground up. Bursting with content, Grid Autosport features over 100 routes across 22 incredible locations and the world’s most exciting contemporary and classic high-performance racing cars to collect, tune and upgrade.
Grid Autosport’s features and tone have been shaped through consultation with the Grid community, professional racing drivers and the experts from UK based AutoSport magazine. This includes the return of an in-car view and the most authentic handling in a Grid game yet.
Multiplayer racing is extended by RaceNet, Codemasters’ free million member strong online community portal, which will deliver new challenges every week starting at the launch of the game and sees the introduction of all-new RaceNet Racing Clubs for online, clan-style team competition. Party modes, Demolition Derby and competitive split-screen modes all complement the game’s extensive career mode and expansive core online game.
Grid Autosport delivers the most amount of content in the series yet and a truly authentic motorsport feel, but does not lose sight of what makes a GRID game a GRID game – it’s all about the race. In developing Grid Autosport, Codemasters consulted extensively with the Grid Community, professional racing drivers and the racing experts from UK based AutoSport magazine.
“The design philosophy behind Grid Autosport was to create a really focussed racing game,” said James Nicholls, Chief Games Designer, Grid Autosport. “We’ve jettisoned anything that doesn’t support the on-track competition and we’ve chosen a selection of cars and tracks that will give players a range of different racing experiences.
That variety is crucial. There are five very distinct ways to race – this isn’t a game where basically every race is the same and the cars and tracks change. You need to adjust your tactics and learn different techniques to succeed in each racing discipline and each car has its own character too.
Our AI will act and react in different ways depending not just on how you race, but the style of racing you are competing in and that’s vital in authentically capturing the feel of say, Touring Cars compared to Open-Wheel Racing.”
Grid Autosport will be available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the Americas on June 24th, 2014.
Official Website: http://www.gridgame.com
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