Regardless of what happens towards the end of this story, from what we’ve seen already, it’s already laps ahead.īut I should say, the tale alone hasn’t fully convinced me yet. Who am I kidding, even a five-year-old could write a better script than The Crew, thankfully. Get it wrong, and you could end up with something like that other Netflix motorsport show – Kevin James’ turgid The Crew. However, wanting to replicate it within a video game and actually pulling it off are two very different things. Using tracing paper over the top of the Netflix show is no bad thing, after all, the positive feedback for that style of programming is largely unanimous. “What really brings people in is not just the driving, but the relationships between the characters and the teams.” My sister has never been into F1, but I finally got her into it by watching Drive to Survive. “Once we’d got, we started to think about how we were going to show this story. We realised everyone was watching Drive to Survive. The similarities are stark, the copying unabashed. GRID Legends Creative Director Chris Smith stated on the Traxion.GG Podcast recently: What we do see is the introduction of journalist talking heads doing their level best to impersonate Jennie Gow and Will Buxton from Netflix’s behind-the-scenes Formula 1 show Drive to Survive. There is some impressive talent involved in the creation of this story, such as acclaimed actor Ncuti Gatwa, but at this early stage, his character isn’t central to the story just yet.
To be clear, this sits alongside a much longer career mode, race creator and online options, the developers envisioning you play through this first before diving into the rest of the game. Think of it as an aperitif before a delicious meal. The final release version of the story is said to last between eight and ten hours depending on difficulty and final tweaks. Imitation is the sincerest form of flatteryįor this hands-on preview, we were able to play through the first six events of Driven to Glory using a gamepad and a pre-release, not complete, version of the new game.
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You play as the faceless ‘Driver 22’ who is, somewhat predictably, trying to make their way from impressing as a test driver to becoming, presumably, the champion or at least fighting McKane for overall GRID World Series glory. As luck would have it, that’s going to be you. Thus begins our story, rewinding 16 months to when Ado is looking for a replacement second driver to sit alongside Tanaka well ahead of the dramatic events we’ve just witnessed. Meanwhile, McKane, who has appeared as your rival in one form or another in every GRID game alongside his team Ravenwest, is ambivalent to the accusations, claiming innocence. Series antagonist Nathan McKane promptly wipes out Seneca driver Yume Tanaka at the new Strada Alpina venue.Ĭontrol is then thrust over to you of the sister car with one aim: win the race. The cutscenes, if you will, are filmed with mixed reality technology with real-world actors and computer-generated backdrops. The on-track action can be simply a race where your aim is to beat a certain rival, or a mid-scene scenario, picking up after a dramatic happening. So now with GRID Legends, we’re back to the drawing board with a more detailed single-player career, vehicle upgrades, team management and – experimentation time – a fictional narrative.Ĭalled Driven to Glory, this story weaves together slickly produced and acted scenes with on-track gameplay.
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