Conflicted Rev

For its full title: Grid - the latest Grid, not the first Grid, or the Grid that's Autosport and being released on the Switch.

I can see why they're calling it "Grid" in fact.

Anyway, it's new, and it's out soon.

Other than Jimmy's dodgy sound issues in his voiceover, this is quite a respectable race:

 And so there it is. not bad. Certainly not a sim though, and I think I'm conflicted on this game...

• Looks great
• "200Mph" seriously?!
• Close racing
• Nemesis malarkey means insta crash maybe?
• Good wheel support clearly
• Physics are relaxed

I'm interested to see what an open-wheel car race looks like, drifting in an F1 car or similar would be a bad thing.

And in fact, what about fwd - TCR cars are in this game, which is awesome, but if they handle like a fake thing that'll be a shame, and same for V8s as they're in there too.

I'm concerned this game will become a "if only they did the handling right, the content is exceptional game" - and on that, enter GT Sport. I can't reconcile what I watch with what I experience, and I've certainly tried. The video below, a great race, and well commentated. But cars for me just don't handle like this, what's going wrong in my gaming life?!!?

GT Sport has a use!

Controversial I know - but I just don't like GT Sport.

I'll even say it's a good game, but it's a good game when you use racing rubber (not sport), it's a good game when you choose a particular track/car combination, it's a good game when you're online and it's a good game when you've played it non-stop for months - unlocking a $20mil car (or stump up real cash for it).

And for me, PCars2 is a good game with all the tracks and cars and tyres. It's a better racing game and I never thought I'd say that.

So why do I fire up GT Sport a fair bit? To do art and to look at other people's art - a shout out to Ace here, he's prolific!

And so without further ado, here's a virtual gallery of stuff from me and from Ace...

This is a local town from where I grew up!

Homage to the greatest car I've driven

Ace's most excellent Moffat rendition

Lovely retro

There are more, many more, and in some ways that's a bad thing - there's so much content locked up in that game, and it's all social stuff. Shudder.