History VideoGame / GRIDLegends

* DoWellButNotPerfect: Each of ''Driven to Glory's'' storyling chapter requires you to just simply finish in a target position (Usually between 3rd to 10th) or beat a specified rival. In which case, finishing in first place is absolutely not necessary.

** The Yokohama Docks track is even worse, as the track is bordered by concrete warehouses and shipping containers and features trucks just off the racing line, all with no protective barriers around any of them, especially in areas where drivers would even fall down into the ocean.

** Speaking of Nathan [=McKane=], who is the perpetrator of the incident, he should be penalized or disqualified from the race for triggering a massive pile up. Nathan would likely also be suspended for the next race, or even disqualified from the championship. [[labelnote:Example]]This happened to Michael Schumacher from the 1997 UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Championship after he deliberately rammed Jacques Villeneuve whilst trying to defend his race lead in the final round of the championship at the European Grand Prix at Jerez. The FIA ultimately decided to strip Schumacher of 2nd place in the championship as the result of the incident. [[/labelnote]]

** The Yokohama Docks track is even worse, as the track is bordered by concrete warehouses and shipping containers and features trucks just off the racing line, all with no protective barriers around any of them.

''GRID Legends'' is a 2022 RacingGame developed by Creator/{{Codemasters}} and published by Creator/ElectronicArts. It is the fifth installment in the ''VideoGame/{{GRID}}'' franchise. The game was released for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on February 25, 2022. The game is notable for, for the first time in the series, including a story-focused career mode inspired by the Creator/{{Netflix}} documentary series ''Series/Formula1DriveToSurvive'', entitled ''Driven to Glory'', even utilizing the same virtual set technology used in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' to insert the actors into virtual backgrounds.[[note]]Codemasters, who are in charge of the F1 racing game series, had previously opted to include a plot-focused career mode in ''F1 2021'' titled ''Braking Point''. In ''GRID Legends'' however, the mode is much more narrative-focused.[[/note]]

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: There's a very small chance that those drivers involved in the Strada Alpina incident would actually survive this pileup as such speeds, like Yume seen getting T-boned by another driver at high speeds or one driver being flipped upside down at such altitude and velocity. Not to mention they are all driving prototypes, and these cars are super fragile for impacts. A heavy collision like that would certainly result in terminal damage.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The characters of ''GRID Legends'' refer to you as "Driver 22". Also counts as YouAreNumberSix.

** The game has the achievements "[[VideoGame/RidgeRacer Reiko Fan Club]]" and "[[VideoGame/GranTurismo Moon Above the Castle]]".

** Another thing is that the GRID World Series doesn't use any racing flags. One example being during the aforementioned Strada Alpina incident, with Nathan [=McKane=] triggering a massive pileup that takes nearly half of the grid is out of the running, but the race is still going on normally. In RealLife, a catastrophic wreck like that would likely cause the race to be red-flagged, or worse, cancelled. This has long been a standard rule in most motorsport events. [[labelnote:Example]]Races such as the pileups of the 2021 UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Hungarian Grand Prix or the qualifying session of 2017 Macau Grand Prix would result in suspending the session. Another example would be the 2019 Spa-Francorchamps Formula 2 round, where Juan Manuel Correa at Eau Rogue unintentionally collided an incapacitated Anthoine Hubert at a very high speed during the feature race, ultimately resulted in aborting the session. Hubert later succumbed to his death moments after the cancellation.[[/labelnote]]
** Speaking of Nathan [=McKane=], who is the perpetrator of the incident, he should be penalized or disqualified from the race for triggering a massive pile up. Nathan would likely also be suspended for the next race, or even disqualified from the championship. [[labelnote:Example]]This happened to Michael Schumacher from the 1997 UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Championship after he deliberately rammed Jacques Villeneuve whilst trying to defend his race lead in the final round of the championship at the European Grand Prix. The FIA ultimately decided to strip Schumacher of 2nd place in the championship as the result of the incident. [[/labelnote]]
** The teams of the GRID World Series drive numerous different cars from different categories whilst being in one major sporting event. In real life, it would very unlikely that all teams would be able to have the necessary resources and funds needed to buy such massive amount of cars for a certain amount of events, such as prototypes and hypercars that cost millions to own and another million for repairs and maintenance, and some of it are hard to find due to its limited production. The closest to this in real life would be [[https://www.fiamotorsportgames.com/ FIA Motorsport Games]], but is more of {{Pseudolympics}} format being held in shorter time spans.

** [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Fernando Alonso's]] 2006 championship-winning car, the Renault [=R26=] is an extreme track toy but can also [[Memes/FormulaOne sBinnala]] if used improperly. A racing wheel would be highly recommended to handle this nimble speed demon, which allows you to blaze through the competition with ease and even potentially break RealLife track records.

** The Strada Alpina incident is the most notorious of these. Putting aside that a massive pileup like this would severely injure (or worse, ''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat kill]]'') the drivers involved in it, there are no safety measures around the rural and highway areas of the track, meaning if a car crashes onto the side of the track, it'd also likely kill or severely injure nearby spectators as well. It's likely the GRID World Series would be held accountable if there were any fatalities due to lack of safety equipment.
** Another thing is that the GRID World Series doesn't use any racing flags. One example being during the aforementioned Strada Alpina incident, with Nathan [=McKane=] triggering a massive pileup that takes nearly half of the grid is out of the running, but the race is still going on normally. In RealLife, a catastrophic wreck like that would likely cause the race to be red-flagged, or worse, cancelled. This has long been a standard rule in most motorsport events. [[labelnote:Example]]Races such as the pileups of the 2021 UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Hungarian Grand Prix or the qualifying session of 2017 Macau Grand Prix would result in suspending the session. Another example would be the 2019 Spa-Francorchamps Formula 2 round, where Antoine Hubert fatally crashed during the feature race, ultimately resulted in aborting the session.[[/labelnote]]

* CallBack: [[spoiler:Chapter 5 of the ''Rise of Ravenwest'' storyline recreates of the very first race in ''Race Driver: GRID'', complete with a [[RealIsBrown sepia]] effect! Except you're put into an SRT Viper GTS-R rather than a modified Dodge Viper SRT-10.[[note]]Actually a Hennessey Viper Venom 1000.[[/note]]]]

* FakeUltimateHero: [[spoiler:Nathan [=McKane=], 5-time GRID Champion, is revealed to be a mediocre driver racing in an illegally overtuned car. Seneca are able to mortally wound his pride by taking the championship for him ''before'' reporting the modifications.]]

** Added in ''Legends'' is the Track Day category. Hence the name, most are lightweight track-focused supercars that can blaze through the tracks at over 300 km/h, but hard crumple from a collision can really ruin your performance during a race.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: No matter how many times you win several races in a row, the story's cutscene will continue as though you're barely scraping through.

* MissionPackSequel: Let's just basically say it's ''GRID 2019'', just with added cars, modes, a story mode and tracks.

* ATasteOfPower: As soon as you launch ''GRID Legends''' for the first time, you will be greeted with ''Driven to Glory's'' opening prologue – the fateful race at Strada Alpina in which [[spoiler:Yume Tanaka suffers the crash that causes her to lose her leg]], which means that you have a taste of the powerful Beltra Enduro 24 T, a fictional LMP-style race car.

* YouAreNumberSix: While the player can insert any name of their choosing to the game to appear on the scorecards, the characters of the game will refer to you as "Driver 22".

** Slamming an opponent will result in said opponent being triggered as a [[BerserkButton Nemesis]], meaning that they'll drive aggressively and try to force you off the track, but otherwise neither of the two will be penalized for it. Trying to do this same stunt in RealLife will most likely result in the culprit receiving a black and white flag, if not a black flag for their careless actions.

** The teams of the GRID World Series drive numerous different cars from different categories whilst being in one major sporting event. In real life, it would very unlikely that all teams would be able to have the necessary resources and funds needed to buy such massive amount of cars for a certain amount of events, such as prototypes and hypercars that cost millions to own and another million for repairs and maintenance, and some of it are hard to find due to its limited production.