V8 Supercars will soon be roaring around
Mount Panorama in popular racing game Race Driver: Grid.
Publisher Codemasters has announced that a
downloadable update for the game will be available before Christmas on PS3,
Xbox 360 and PC formats.
Players will be able to race in BF Ford or Holden VE vehicles
around the famous Bathurst circuit, with the cars featuring liveries from the
top Australian racing teams.
The lack
of V8 Supercars was one of the few disappointments of the exhilarating Grid,
which offered a wide selection of events set in the US, Japan and Europe,
including circuit races through city streets, head-to-head mountain runs,
demolition derbies, endurance races, open-wheel events and drift contests.
While it
is far from an accurate driving simulator, Codemasters' ethos for Grid was that
many people have become bored with modern racing games and would rather just
race than have to tinker with gear ratios or design customised paint jobs. Grid
makes the point emphatically using exciting, intense action coupled with superb
presentation and rewarding car handling.
You
don't even have to replay a race after a calamitous crash or off-track
excursion - you can simply rewind the action a few seconds and resume the race,
this time carefully avoiding your mistake. It's perfect for when you flip a car
after hurtling into a piece of on-track debris.
Before the V8 Supercars update arrives,
Codemasters will first deliver an "8 Ball" downloadable pack
featuring eight new cars such as the McLaren F1 GTR and Mitsubishi Lancer
Evolution X, plus two new online events.