Frizzed
12-14-2007, 03:24 AM
This from the official Codemasters GRID Forums
“Ok, then I’ve finally been cleared to drop this one out there.
No V8.
And no DTM, either.
Various reason for this, most of which I can’t go into for reasons of commercial sensitivity.
We do still hold licenses for those championships, and we do still have ideas for what we want to do with them, but not as part of Grid - what those ideas are, I can’t say, and nothing has been greenlit or confirmed at all, but we do know that these are popular series, and no decision relating to them has been taken lightly.
So far, the PR activity has played up the new “street” aspects over the trad aspects as we need to reach out to a new market- but to reiterate, that’s not all there is. We do have a very prestigous, real-world championship signed up that I’m bursting to tell you about, but can’t.
But we do need to reach out to new people- Costs of next-genaration development at this stage demand that. Like it or not, we do need to sell games in the US to survive, and while Race Driver historically did better than Colin McRae in that regard, it’s still not good enough.
So, if the lack of those two championships is a total deal-breaker, then fair enough, GRID probably isn’t for you, and it’s probably best if you stop following it and weighing it down with expectations of a straight sequel to RD3 which it’s not going to be. No hard feelings from this side, I know it’s a disappointing thing to hear if you’re a fan of a series when it takes a turn you may not be happy with, but the ultimate result may actually be better for everybody.
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Rich Tysoe
Motorsports/flight/shooting/strategy CLO.
Codemasters.
www.codemasters.com
XBL Gamertag: RichXM655
A disappointing end to an era, for anyone that has followed this series from the original game would agree with me, particularly people from the UK and Australia. The feeling I get from this is Codemasters has just kicked half their supporter base in the chest and would rather sell out and get more money by making a game of this style rather then staying true to their true supporters and fans.
The new Race Driver: GRID game will feature 3 continents but it will not include the V8 Supercars, BTCC or TOCA touring cars. The game has taken a turn and will aim to be a cross of Need For Speed Pro Street and PGR 4 as an arcade street racing style game. It will include a selection of cars from US(muscle), Europe(exotic) and Japan(tuner).
With development well under way and the aim of releasing this game mid next year, there is no way Codemasters would be able to change their minds or add any more racing competitions in the game.
I had a feeling this game would turn out to be a PGR4 style game by just looking at the screenshots, It looks very similar to PGR4.
Will we ever get a true racing sim for the Xbox 360 ?
“Ok, then I’ve finally been cleared to drop this one out there.
No V8.
And no DTM, either.
Various reason for this, most of which I can’t go into for reasons of commercial sensitivity.
We do still hold licenses for those championships, and we do still have ideas for what we want to do with them, but not as part of Grid - what those ideas are, I can’t say, and nothing has been greenlit or confirmed at all, but we do know that these are popular series, and no decision relating to them has been taken lightly.
So far, the PR activity has played up the new “street” aspects over the trad aspects as we need to reach out to a new market- but to reiterate, that’s not all there is. We do have a very prestigous, real-world championship signed up that I’m bursting to tell you about, but can’t.
But we do need to reach out to new people- Costs of next-genaration development at this stage demand that. Like it or not, we do need to sell games in the US to survive, and while Race Driver historically did better than Colin McRae in that regard, it’s still not good enough.
So, if the lack of those two championships is a total deal-breaker, then fair enough, GRID probably isn’t for you, and it’s probably best if you stop following it and weighing it down with expectations of a straight sequel to RD3 which it’s not going to be. No hard feelings from this side, I know it’s a disappointing thing to hear if you’re a fan of a series when it takes a turn you may not be happy with, but the ultimate result may actually be better for everybody.
__________________
Rich Tysoe
Motorsports/flight/shooting/strategy CLO.
Codemasters.
www.codemasters.com
XBL Gamertag: RichXM655
A disappointing end to an era, for anyone that has followed this series from the original game would agree with me, particularly people from the UK and Australia. The feeling I get from this is Codemasters has just kicked half their supporter base in the chest and would rather sell out and get more money by making a game of this style rather then staying true to their true supporters and fans.
The new Race Driver: GRID game will feature 3 continents but it will not include the V8 Supercars, BTCC or TOCA touring cars. The game has taken a turn and will aim to be a cross of Need For Speed Pro Street and PGR 4 as an arcade street racing style game. It will include a selection of cars from US(muscle), Europe(exotic) and Japan(tuner).
With development well under way and the aim of releasing this game mid next year, there is no way Codemasters would be able to change their minds or add any more racing competitions in the game.
I had a feeling this game would turn out to be a PGR4 style game by just looking at the screenshots, It looks very similar to PGR4.
Will we ever get a true racing sim for the Xbox 360 ?