#GRID LEGENDS DRIVER#

#GRID LEGENDS DRIVER#

This is designed to match the narrative as your driver gets better and begins to make a name for themselves as they start slowly making their way up the rankings, but if you’re a decent enough player and regularly finish in first place this sort of messes up the plan.

Each chapter gives you a set goal to reach, which almost always involves finishing each race at least somewhere in the middle of the pack. This aside, our main issue with the story is that you have no real control over it. It’s not that it looks fake, it’s just such a superfluous effect and the fact the backgrounds are always out of focus anyway makes us wonder what it accomplishes that a simple greenscreen wouldn’t have. Here, though, the same technique just results in a lot of ineffective scenes where the actors stand in front of very soft-focused CG racing environments. What it essentially means is that the cutscenes were shot in front of a large video wall, rather than a greenscreen, which in the case of The Mandalorian gave the cast a greater sense of presence as they actually got to see their surroundings.

Much has been made by EA and Codemasters about the fact that the game’s cutscenes use the same ‘virtual studio’ technology as The Mandalorian, but in reality the two productions are about as similar as Jackass and Dune. The story is your typical ‘little guy comes good’ yarn that you’ll have seen a million times before, and the twist that happens halfway through is similarly textbook. The player takes control of Driver 22, a young rookie racer who signs up for Seneca, a small racing team with ambitions of taking on the best.

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