Real-life race tracks included are Brands Hatch, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Mount Panorama, Red Bull Ring, Sepang International Circuit, Suzuka Circuit and Sydney Motorsports Park. In total, more than 120 vehicles are in the game, accompanied by 22 circuits that have up to eight different layouts each. This means that GRID Legends gets to show off a lot of its content in story mode, and there is no shortage of vehicles to drive – be it prototypes, GT cars, Stadium Trucks or Muscle Cars.

On track, the pace is rapid: Races are usually only about ten minutes long, and it is rare that the same car gets used twice in a row – the same is true for tracks. Interestingly, Nathan looks similar to Ryan’s antagonist in the first Race Driver game, James Randall, while Ryan does not bear much resemblance to his past self in GRID Legends. If the name McKane sounds familiar to you, you are not imagining things – Nathan has been in previous GRID titles and is now finally shown to the player, while Ryan’s roots go all the way back to the first Race Driver title (using either the TOCA, V8 Supercars, DTM or Pro prefix depending on the region of the world it released in), him being the protagonist in that game. The former grants the player a more detailed look into the team’s rise and a deeper look into the characters they are surrounded with, including teammate Tanaka and the main antagonist Nathan McKane, whose uncle Ryan is the team principal of the all-conquering Ravenwest team.

After that, they can choose how they continue the story: You can either start 16 months before the crash to find out how you got to that point in time, or keep moving forward from the events you just played through. The player takes on the role of the unnamed “Driver 22”, who is drafted into the second seat of the struggling Seneca team around their team principal Marcus Ado and their lead driver Yume Tanaka, picking up immediately after an enormous multi-car crash in a prototype race at the fictitious Strada Alpine track and requiring the player to finish the race in a damaged car. It has a similar vibe to Formula 1’s “Drive to Survive” series, following three teams on their path through the GRID World Series. The game starts off in its story mode by default – it is the showpiece of the game, after all, and Codemasters and EA have put considerable amounts of effort into it, using real actors to portray the story’s characters. Picking up GRID Legends for the first time, you will not have to wait a long time to find out just that. Strap in for an adrenaline-filled racing experience: GRID Legends marks the fifth entry in the franchise, and the newest title by Codemasters and EA does not hold back in the action department – we have taken a look at the title to see what it is all about.

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