Grid on Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 Smashes Sony PS3 Exclusive Gran Turismo 5
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: June 2, 2008 | 39 Comments
Having spent a lot of time playing Gran Turismo 5 on the Sony PS3, I am really impressed with the realistic graphics and have enjoyed the gameplay. While it’s not perfect it was still one of my favorite racing games currently. Then I met Grid that is on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, this game Smashes the PS3 exclusive Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in all areas.
Yes, GT5 Prologue slightly has the edge on graphics but that’s where it stops. The moment you start playing Grid your impressed by it saying your name and the racing feels like a battlefield. As a FPS gamer who loves action, GRID fits nicely with me and takes you further into the driving seat of racing than any game before it.
When your after a realistic game that not only looks good, but gives you a feel for racing and just by clipping a corner, you get what you should…major damage to your car and some really bad handling. In GT5 Prologue you can smash into a car at 200MPH and just bounce of like a ping-pong ball, if they were after racing realism, then they are well off.
You got to get the right balance of gameplay and realism in all games and this is one reason COD4 has been so popular, what many gamers are after now (including myself) are both graphics and the thrill of realistic damage. In First Person Shooter games, this is a wall blowing apart from grenades and in racing games this is a car caving in under impact and driving conditions affected from these impacts.
With the full game of Gran Turismo 5 coming in 2009, lets hope they take that extra time to give the racing fans a lot more realistic gameplay and as such a more exciting race.
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Copycats beware. Grid is no GT5.
Morne
u just failed right when you said “all areas” GT5 is a gem on its own right
what a dumbass GT5 is the most realistic racing game out there. And GRID is good but, not better than GT5.
this game Smashes the PS3 exclusive Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in all areas !!!!!!!
What the hill you talking about
smash !!! big word
GT5P = Real driving
Grid = just a cars game
don’t bother your self for some words that
dosn’t mean any thing
SMASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GRID is indeed an excellent racing game, but its not a simulation like GT5. GRID is more aimed at entertainment than realism in my opinion. This isn’t a bad thing at all and I personally prefer that to a full on simulation but many don’t. Its a subtly different market and shouldn’t really be compared to GT5 where the cars have been individually tweaked after hours of driving the real things to ensure they behave identically. There is still nothing which comes close either graphics wise or realism wise to GT5.
The business of damage is always raised when it comes to Gran Turismo. For a long time they haven’t been allowed to include damage to the cars as part of the agreements with the real car manufacturers. It seems the car companies are now coming around and can see that it won’t make their cars look inferior at all if they crumple and come apart in an accident. The full GT5 (not ‘Prologue’) may well include real damage simulation if the manufacturers all agree. We shall see.
gt5 was very bad it was gt4 with high def graphics forza is a better racing series i mean thats the 2nd out and already it is as good as gt5 forza 3 i imagine will be a fantastic game
ps
grid is a great game
Racing simulation is boring. GRID mixes everything up nicely. It cuts the crap out and adds fun in its place. This is the best racing game I’ve played in a very very long time.
GT5 prolouge isn’t the real GT game in the series. the real GT5 is coming out soon.
Arcade racer (grid) vs simulation (gt5). Why slate gt5? Its a different game. Getting a few 100ths of a second faster is rewarding in gt5 - in this it isn’t.
GT5:P vs Grid Comparison Vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1Q6sxNJoY