History VideoGame / GRiD

* {{Engrish}}: The announcer in Japan drift events, despite speaking mostly in Japanese, is prone to it. DORIFTU BLASTER! However, this is normal, and sort of expected from announcers for [=D1GP=] events (the guy voicing the announcer is, in fact, a [=D1GP=] announcer). It was also intentional, as that Japanese speaking announcer is American voice actor Creator/YuriLowenthal.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Audi [=R10=] is this in GRID 1. By far, it is the most expensive car at a whopping 20 million US dollars in-game, but it's also incredibly fast, handles almost like a dream, and is eligible for both the Le Mans 24 Hours race and the Global-level Prototype event.
* InfinityMinusOneSword: The Mazda 787B in GRID 1 is this; it's nowhere near as expensive, is slightly slower, and it does suffer from very heavy steering at high speeds, but it's still easier (relatively speaking) to drive.

* NintendoHard: Many examples.
** The Advan Drift International event is definitely one of the hardest of the Drift events in the game; even in the cheap and easy to drive Toyota Corolla, going sideways at speed on a tight street circuit cleanly is not an easy task.
** Shibuya in general is a very tough track in GRID 1; tight chicanes and hairpins, no run-offs, and roads only a few cars wide.
** Okutama's short circuit in GRID 1 and Autosport is definitely not hard, but the Grand Circuit is quite a car-killer. To elaborate: The Grand Circuit goes up a narrow mountain road, with a nasty mix of fast blind corners, sudden and somewhat steep inclines, and bus stop chicanes that do nothing more than destroy cars if their line is poor.
** The one-on-one duels versus Ravenwest. Any one of them.
** Midnight Touge events are much harder than the already challenging Pro Touge as it happens at night... with traffic to make things more difficult.

* ATasteOfPower: The ''very'' first race of the game puts you in a Dodge Viper SRT-10 provided by Ravenwest (as featured on the cover), who have kindly lent you this car for your licensing race at San Francisco. This also applies to some of the driver invites, which put you in cars from race classes that you otherwise may not be able to enter with your current reputation level (eg. Being invited to drive a Porsche 911 [=GT3=] RSR in a [=GT2=]-class event while the actual [=GT2=]-class events are still locked).

** In GRID 2, the display was greatly simplified to an exclamation mark that represents overall damage your car.

** In GRID 2, the display was greatly simplified; now an exclamation mark shows if your engine is damaged.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: In ''GRID Autosport'', if you haven't played the game in a while, the menu announcer will suggest that you do a practice cup to get back into the swing of things.

Codemasters' '''''Race Driver: [=GRiD=]''''' is the SpiritualSuccessor to their ''{{TOCA}} Race Driver'' series. It is most notable for one feature - the ability to rewind time. Although this mechanic had been used in games before, this is the first time it has appeared in a pure racing game, and the ability to do a short section of the track over instead of starting the race again after 5 minutes of driving made it hugely popular with critics and the public. The mechanic was later ported to Codemasters' other main series, ''VideoGame/{{DiRT}}''.

Any vehicle in the open wheel class in Autosport counts as this. Even the slightest bump could cause terminal damage and leave you out of the race. Contact is avoided at all costs in this discipline.

** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You]], on the otherhand can drive as aggressive as you can (even against your team-mate nonetheless) and suffer no penalties as a result (unless you're in Pro Touge).

!!! "T Ro Pes":

* ATasteOfPower: The VERY first race of the game puts you in a Dodge Viper SRT-10 provided by Ravenwest (as featured on the cover), who have kindly lent you this car for your licensing race at San Francisco. This also applies to some of the driver invites, which put you in cars from race classes that you otherwise may not be able to enter with your current reputation level (eg. Being invited to drive a Porsche 911 [=GT3=] RSR in a [=GT2=]-class event while the actual [=GT2=]-class events are still locked).
** [=GRID=] Autosport kicks it up a notch. The game puts you right into the 25th season opener at Hockenheim in an Audi [=RS5=]. And this time around, you're racing for Ravenwest.

Codemasters' ''Race Driver: [=GRiD=]'' is the SpiritualSuccessor to their ''{{TOCA}} Race Driver'' series. It is most notable for one feature - the ability to rewind time. Although this mechanic had been used in games before, this is the first time it has appeared in a pure racing game, and the ability to do a short section of the track over instead of starting the race again after 5 minutes of driving made it hugely popular with critics and the public. The mechanic was later ported to Codemasters' other main series, ''VideoGame/{{DiRT}}''.

''[=GRID=] Autosport'' is slated for release at the end of June 2014, and will bring back some content from the first game (eg. In-car views, San Francisco, and Ravenwest)

The other notable addition to the familiar driving game formula is that the announcers (one your manager, the other the head of your pit crew) will speak to you on a FirstNameBasis, as long as your name is common enough to be on the list.

* {{Engrish}}: The announcer in Japan drift events, despite speaking mostly in Japanese, is prone to it. DORIFTU BLASTER! However, this is normal, and sort of expected from announcers for [=D1GP=] events (the guy voicing the announcer is, in fact, a [=D1GP=] announcer).

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: In *GRID Autosport*, if you haven't played the game in a while, the menu announcer will suggest that you do a practice cup to get back into the swing of things.

* OpposingSportsTeam: Subverted with Ravenwest, the player's biggest rival team. While they do possess many attributes common in a generic "evil" team (insane skill, dreaded reputation, all-black paint scheme, etc.), they don't cheat, drive especially aggressively, show any sort of hostility toward the player's team at any point during the story, or do much of anything to suggest they're anything other than a normal racing team. They're just really, really good at what they do.

** "Your car is a little banged up but it's nothing serious."

* ArtisticLicense: The Long Beach Street Circuit does not bear a lot of aesthetic resemblance to the real course. In addition, many portions of the track are not modeled very faithfully, even in its configuration most like the real course.

** The Saleen S7R doesn't have as much acceleration compared to other GT1 race cars, but it contains the most grip and it's cheaper too.

** "Your car is all banged up but it's nothing serious."
* TheRival: Ravenwest

* InstantWebHit: In GRID 2, a video of your performance in your first race gets uploaded on Youtube and gets tons of views and likes, to the point that Patrick Callahan, a rich American entrepreneur, gets interested on you.

** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You]], on the otherhand...

''[=GRID=] 2'' was released at the end of May 2013. The reviews were positive, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks suffered a huge backlash from the fandom because of the many changes Codemasters made to the game.]]

** [[VideoGameCruelityPotential You]], on the otherhand...