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GRID Autosport is a good game, and I do recommend giving it a shot, most especially if you liked the original GRID and wished it would be remade to current standards both graphically and in aspects of gameplay. It is a vast improvement in that regard.

HOWEVER...

Anyone who enjoyed GRID 2 may find this game far less appealing in your initial experience. If you play the series from the beginning (GRID, GRID 2, GRID Autosport), it will actually feel like the game has physically backpedaled in many aspects. Much of what was seemingly fixed going from GRID to GRID 2 has reappeared or at least half-resurfaced in some instances.

Categories for race types and the cars that can take part in them are once again scattered, leaving you with less choices per race, and your one prized car that you really like driving is thus ineligible for all but the events it's explicitly allowed in.

The overall handling of the vehicles is slower, heavier, sacrificing that arcade-y agility that GRID 2 vehicles had in favor of what's SUPPOSED to be a more simulation feel, but really just feels like an overall nerf to handling to reduce lap times. I found myself competing more with my own car than with my opponents.

That being said, Grid Autosport is still worth the purchase, as it has many elements from both games - tracks, vehicles, aond so on - and will pluck familiar chords for anyone who has played either one.

The visuals are delightful (if a bit indifferent compared to GRID 2 - slightly polished, at best), the AI is less stupid than previous games (GRID especially), and they did bring back the team elements for certain events. More importantly, they also introduced a lot of the original GRID's strengths into the online campaign, so the multiplayer no longer feels haphazardly tacked on.

It is by no means a perfect game, and I will confess here and now that I think GRID 2 is better than Autosport, but that's more my preference than anything, and I will still actively be playing both.

Autosport can be summarized as a GRID 1 remake to GRID 2's standards. If that's what you're looking for, look no further. If not, wait for it to go on sale, or see if a friend will let you play - or even just watch them.



Editing to switch my recommendation to no, because I'm still frustrated at how GRID 2 brought so much joy in its skillset, how my cars could handle like a pro figure skater and just feel like a total dream to drive, where Autosport... didn't change much, but they took away the ice skates without really changing the rink or skaters' performance.

Everything handles exactly how it feels like it should until the moment you try any maneuvers from GRID 2, where you just lose all sense of momentum shift and glide into a wall as if your tires hadn't turned even slightly, let alone got set sideways with varying levels of throttle saying "Go -that- way!"

And, yes, that frustrates me enough to regret buying this.