GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition bursts onto the track with the swagger of a seasoned champion, inviting players into an in-depth exploration of its cinematic racing drama and precision-tuned motorsport action. From the roar of its GT beasts to the razor-edge tension of wheel-to-wheel battles, every moment feels engineered for spectacle. This latest incarnation blends arcade flair with simulation grit, creating a world where every corner, crash, and comeback tells a story worth diving into.

GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition Review Pros

• Awesome graphics. 
• 28.4GB download size. 
• Video options – optimisation preset (performance or graphics) for TV mode, and optimisation preset for handheld (performance, balanced, or graphics), enhanced visual effects, reduce rain intensity, motion blur, brightness and HDR sliders, and a sharpening slider. 
• Audio sliders for in-race music, engineer speech, commentary speech, effects, music, master volume, dynamic music, music select mode, and music track. 
• Optional subtitles support. 
• Offline mode is available. 
• Pro controller support, and you can tweak sliders for steering, throttle, brake, and hand brake. 
• You can remap the controls, tweak the sensitivity of steering, and you can enable/disable vibration, and you have sliders for collision, engine, tyre slip, and suspension. 
• Racing gameplay. 
• Opening race, then you get tutorial pop-ups and a help menu. 
• Six difficulties – Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert, Legend, and custom. 
• You can set an online nickname or opt not to; if you don’t have an online nickname, then you cannot view leaderboards or earn rewards for dynamic events. 
• Mechanic pass – using this allows you to unlock vehicles, and potentially faster. This is optional and not mandatory. 
• Customisable HUD, and you can turn it all off or on, or go and turn on what you want. 
• Seven driving views from bumper to in-car, and far. It’s a button press to change instantly. 
• Ten car classes – Special, demolition derby, electric, trucks, open wheel racing, track day, drift, GT, tuner and touring. 
• When playing on the TV, a Screensaver will come up periodically to prevent screen burn. 
• Full statistics menu, keeping track of everything from miles driven to cars owned and races won. 
• Online leaderboards are split into location, route, and class. 
• Mechanic development is a set of skill trees where you spend cash and level up your profile to upgrade your mechanic. 
• Teammate development is the same deal as the mechanic, but for your teammate. 
• 14 sponsors in the game you can represent, and each has unique objectives. 
• Team profile lets you customise and create your own team from logo, name, banner and see progress. You can also go back and edit this at anytime. 
• Four game modes – Story, Career, Free Play, and Beginnings. 
• Four career categories – Rookie, Semi-pro, Pro, and All-Pro events. Each of them breaks down into smaller events, classes, and disciplines. 
• Five stories to choose and play through – Grid legends, classic carnage, enduring spirit, rise of Ravenwest, and winter bash. These will all have multiple disciplines, events, and missions and objectives. 
• Free play has two ways to play – single player (quick race/single race, and custom cup), and dynamic events, where you get generated events and compete on the leaderboards for rewards. 
• Decent loading times. 
• The controls are super tight and responsive, with every car feeling different and unique. 
• Real video cutscenes that can be skipped. 
• Again, Feral have bought a game onto the Switch and made it look and feel like the console and PC versions in every way. 
• TV presentation from the graphic overlays to the announcers. 
• Before a race, you can do basic tuning of a car with sliders going from soft to firm for Springs, Dampers, and anti-roll bars. You can set the gear ratio from short to long, and brake bias from rear to front. 
• The game looks just as good on the handheld as it does on the TV. 
• You can view and control replays of your last race or event. 
• The game is not just straight-up circuit racing; you have eliminations, time trials, team racing, and more. 
• The right stick is used to look around your car when driving or in close-up views, allowing you to look sideways and behind. 
• Unlock new items from banners to cars to liveries, and you get them by levelling up, which is done by racing. The unlocks are presented like a box opening, like an animation. 
• Earning exp is not just racing, but also what you do in a race, you get pop-ups showing when you earn it and what for, so it could be a good drift, sticking to the driving line, overtaking, drafting or anything else that benefits you. 
• Clea,r easy to read Hud when in-game. 
• Spend cash on upgrading cars’ attributes, and you don’t just pay and go, you may have to do x amount of events or miles in the car to just get the unlock chance. 
• The game autosaves regularly and shows a clear icon. 

GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition Review Cons

• Help and support are just a QR code to scan. 
• It’s very rare, but there are a few rough edges here and there, like logos up close look blocky, and some textures look like they didn’t load in, but it is rare. 
• You may not be a fan of all the real-world video sections and how they’re integrated within the story.
• A lot of the mechanics, like how exp and unlocks work, are not immediately explained to you, and it requires some guesswork or menu surfing. 
• Does not work on the Nintendo Switch console. More as an FYI.

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GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition

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Developer: Codemasters

Publisher: Electronic Arts / Feral Interactive

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