Except, sometimes car upgrades aren’t unlocked until you have driven it for a set number of miles and there’s no guarantee you’ll have ticked that box simply racing in the career. In order to advance, you not only achieve strong race results, but you must also manage car upgrades and sponsor objectives.Įarn credits, spend those credits on upgrades and then level up your car, ergo unlocking new tiers of events. That progress, however, isn’t quite as straightforward as the minimalist menu may have you convinced.

Renault Clio Cups and Ginetta GT5s will be your staple diet for the opening hours before you progress to quicker machinery and sterner rivals. The career has taken a back seat during the pre-release hype for GRID Legends, but it’s the meat, or meat-free substitute, between the bread.Ī familiar tale of starting from the bottom, rising to the top. Not only did that have more on-track setups, but it also spent more time building the Aiden Jackson and Casper Akkerman characters through phone calls and emails – all notable by their absence here.Īs an aperitif though, Driven to Glory successfully manages to stimulate your appetite. Well-acted, a plot twist or two, but it didn’t grab me in the same way as, funnily enough, Codemasters’ stablemate, F1 2021’s Braking Point. Driven to Glory is meant to be a saccharine sweet explosion of flavour, bombastic should be its modus operandi. There are no pre-determined scenarios, which to a purist sounds attractive.īut the separate career mode is for that. While I enjoyed the characters and Nathan McKane’s machismo, apart from the opening salvo, every hands-on moment is either a straight-up race or time trial. The aim is to reach The Gauntlet, a knockout style event for the world’s best racing teams. You play through a near-seamless – when played on a device with a solid-state drive – mix of story and driving events, which does its best to enthral you. This is indicative of both the fictionalised team and GRID Legends itself. “It’s time for us to deliver,” explains the enigmatic head honcho. This is the Driven to Glory story mode, and it’s a new take on the GRID formula, where you are Driver 22 competing for the upcoming Seneca team led by Marcus Ado. You’re then thrust into the race midway through and thus begins our journey through GRID Legends. They collide, with Seneca Racing’s driver Yume Tanaka out of the race, and Ravenwest’s Nathan McKane seemingly at fault. The game begins with a slick cutscene of two racers duking it out at new fictional race venue Strada Alpina.

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