GRID Reviews

I’m giving this game a one star because they do not give the option of zero stars.
I read the reviews before I purchased this game thinking it can’t be as bad as all those negative reviews said, thinking, maybe they just did not have the car setup correctly according to the reply’s back from the developers. Turns out, they were right, you cannot control the cars even in ‘rookie’ mode with all the driving assists turned on, the only time you can truly control the car is just before the race starts and you are stopped at the starting line. Once it starts, (if this was a real car) you better plan on dying. I did not try it, but, ‘demolition derby’ mode might be fun, at least there you are supposed to crash!
I can see why they do not have a free version to start with to see if you would want to buy a full version, they would not make any money.
This is a game for those that do not know how to drive because they would not know difference any ways or know how bad this $10 game really is.

Tilt control has always been a part of mobile racing games which is surprising to me because it’s a concept that doesn’t work well. So I was hoping that the arrow controls could fix that and help me enjoy the game. However the arrow controls are a mess. The game won’t let you accalorate by yourself, and braking is very frustrating as you have to reach for the middle of the screen which could really send you into the grass on tight turns. The fact that the game doesn’t even give you the option to change the layout of the arrows and maybe also add an acceleration button is beyond me on a $10 racing game. Other than that the game is alright but I would still have to give it 2 stars because controlling the car is about 80% of a racing game. I really hope to see the re arranging option in an upcoming update.

Edit:
what a joke of a developer response. The fact that they try to put a bandaid over this joke of an overpriced game by writing “thank you for your purchase” like they have done on so many other 2 and 1 star reviews makes it feel like they are laughing behind their screens and tells me that there will not be any promising updates in the future.

So I decided to put this on my phone cause it might be easier to play then holding an iPad. After downloading the game and opening it I wanted to download the extra stuff and then am greeted to a message I don’t have enough room for the 2.06 gigs. So I then go to my settings and see that I have used 42 out my 65 available gigs. It might just be me but I thought 23 gigs is bigger than 2. I’m supper confused. Shut my phone off completely and restarted it and same issue.

So tried downloading one thing and turning everything else off and it started to work, got 2 things downloaded then the game started and in the main menu tried to download the rest it made me go to settings to turn stuff on and restore for some reason and when I went back into the game I got the same thing although this time was telling me now it 3.08 gigs I didn’t have room for. App also made my settings app crash while I was messing with custom control settings.

You have made a high quality product here it’s a shame I won’t be buying anymore of them. This was such a waste of money and time.

I love how this is a stand-alone game where you pay once and you play to your heart’s content, just like a true console game would be.. But wow... They claim that this is supposed to be more of a “simulator” style game, but I have driven many cars, and have never had so many issues just trying to drive in a straight line! NO car on earth drives like these in the game. It honestly feels as if you’re driving a boat with how slow the game responds to your attempts at turning, but it gets even more “fun” once your car starts to turns finally and suddenly it’s as if your whole car is driving on a solid ice patch with no traction whatsoever.. The cars control horribly. The graphics are okay, I wasn’t blown away by them, but I also wasn’t upset with them. Also, I haven’t seen a single option in the game for any kind of customization to the cars, or even any option to try to buy new cars. I may be wrong on that though, because after an hour of giving this game a chance, I just couldn’t bring myself to continue playing it. But I know that I never saw any options in there for it at all.. Overall, I love the fact that they are not trying to do the stupid in app purchase garbage, but playing this game felt like more of a job, than anything I would consider to be fun. I personally would not spend the money to buy it. The game itself gets 1 star from me, but I added another just because I like and respect the pay once aspect of it.

My biggest complaint is the nearly 6 gigabytes this game takes up with the dlc’s, yet it still takes an eternity to load into a race. What is all of the 6gb doing if it isn’t already loaded? There is not nearly that much content in the game for it to be using that much storage. The graphics are ok, but, again, not 6 gigabytes good. All of the cars always sound like you’re riding up against a wall with the reverb sound, besides they sound pretty bad to begin with. Surprisingly though, the R35 sounds pretty accurate. I’ve noticed that it’s hard to make minuscule movements when steering and often my car is stuck in its own racing line at certain parts of the track. Just a few tweaks to the handling would be nice.
As far as content, I’d love to see some LMP cars, (Porsche 919, etc.), and some LMGTE cars such as my favorite modern race car, the 2016 Ford GT LMGTE PRO. Obviously I’d love Le Mans Circuit, Nüburgring Nordschleife, but it seems as if the content additions are done, especially since the game is entirely free after initial purchase.
Overall, great game, console quality is a bit of an ambitious statement, unless you’re comparing to PlayStation 3, but still the best racing simulator for mobile.

I wanted to enjoy this game so bad. I’ve played around 5-6 hours and I simply cannot seem to get enjoyment out of this game due to underwhelming controls. I am an avid racing sim fan and have spent countless days playing Gran Turismo and Forza so I eagerly purchased this sim hoping to achieve a similar quality of gameplay and graphics and while this game looks stunning, the lack of an intuitive control scheme makes controlling these cars an absolute chore. I tried all options and found the virtual wheel to be best, but still frustratingly difficult. The lower difficulties are easy to win because your opponents turn into snails, but as soon as you increase the difficulty to get a challenge you will see just how unfair the AI will make you feel. Cars are very aggressive and with no proper control scheme it makes these races more frustrating than fun. Unless you have a 3rd party physical controller to play with this game will take you on a very steep learning curve

Feral managed to port the full this app experience, with a much improved UI, to a phone—pretty darn cool. The tilt controls work surprisingly well, the “force feedback” on bumpy roads is a nice touch, and the graphics are stellar.

Two criticisms—these games always use the external view as the default, which I think is a mistake. I went from terrible to pretty good, just by switching to the bumper view. You can’t get any sense of your speed with the camera hanging high above your car.

Frame rate is an issue. I’m using an iPhone X, and things start out fine — right around 30 FPS. About 3-5 minutes into gameplay though, that frame rate takes a nosedive — down to a nearly unplayable 15fps. I suspect there’s some thermal throttling or something going on, but it’s enough that it hurts my driving performance. Please tweak the game, even turn down the graphical bells and whistles if need be, to get steady performance.

I wont repeat what others have said about the graphics because they are amazing and the pay once price is the best bargain in GRID Store. Also, I actually like the tilt controls on my 12 inch iPad Pro. It seems pretty direct and more like a real driving experience.

What I I don’t like and am very surprised is missing are a few details that would help. First there are no useable rear view or side view mirrors. How can you find out who is behind you or beside you when overtaking. There is on view that kind of give you mirrors but they are obscured and not useable. This is probably my biggest complaint. Second, is there are NO DRIVERS! It’s kind of surprising and kind of freaky to see cars go around the track with no drivers. Given the level of detail in all other aspects I can’t figure out why this detail is missing.

Either way it is the best game in GRID Store but would really like to be able to see around me when driving not just ahead of me.

Ok so I completely am satisfied with this game. It’s well worth the one time cost and I have very few complaints. The only complaint I can come up with, and it’s more of a suggestion than a complaint, is it would be really nice to have a better replay feature. Especially having a TV camera replay view. The only option for this is the view that toggles between multiple views. If would be much better imo with a stand alone TV broadcast camera view. Also it would be cool to have either a drone or helicopter aerial view as well.

Other than that I can’t really complain. It’s a perfect game and you can tell the Deb’s spent a ton of time on the details

One more suggestion, more options for the demo derby. This could include more tracks and car selections. The camera suggestions above would enhance the derby too imo. Tracks like a common figure 8, and even oval racing. additions to this could make this game even better.

I’m loving the game so far. (Just by virtue of not being a wretched “freemium” game it probably deserves 5 stars.)

The game play is fun. Really this is the spiritual successor to Real Racing 2 which I loved.

I’d call the following comments rather than criticisms, but they’re worth knowing if you’re considering the game. (I’m only a dozen seasons in, so take it with a grain of salt, I’ve got a lot left to learn.)

-I didn’t even know that there was qualifying until I was about six seasons in. I had expected that if there was quali, it would have taken me there first. Not every race has it, but now I know to check. (There’s practice as well, use it)

-I’m happy that car setup is available, but it’s going to take you a long time to figure out exactly how all of the settings interact. Which is as it should be for a game of this type.

-There is a pretty large jump in difficulty from one level to the next. The nice lady tells me it’s too easy on “professional” but I can’t break the top 8 on expert. I haven’t experimented with the custom difficulty options yet, so know that you’ll need to explore that as well.

-I sort of wish the bumper camera view was more like a “grill” view. Meaning it’s really low, and it can be tough to see anything in traffic. If you prefer the other styles of view, it won’t be a problem.

I did say this app:Autosport is a good-but-not-as-good-as-it-can-be game on Steam when I played it first on Steam, the handle is a little strange with both keyboard and controller, the game progress is a little boring because back in original this app, we can actually build a team...but when I play this game on my iPhone, OMG...

First time to truly experience the concept of “grip” on a mobile game.

And, no in app purchase, yeah! Ok I know this game has bunch of paid DLC on PC or whatever, at least I know they are “DONE”, may be they are off to holiday, may be they are off to brewing a brand new this app, that’s all good. Better then sitting on base they built years ago and keep sucking money out off your account, yes I’m talking about “Rich Racing 3”, who just fail to keep the throne. Greedy king got overthrow by other competitors, I wound how many time that happened in history...

Sweet *ss game folks! It has stuff no other mobile games do! And like cars themselves, every vehicle is different and even if 2 vehicles of the same make & model, and year are identical, they are still usually miles apart when they are modified for 2 different racers...modern cars are precisely built for 1 driver, and even for 1 track, and even built and setup for certain weather conditions? Take this into account before you blame the game for poor control and handling? LEARN TO CHANGE YOUR STYLE AND ADAPT to whatever conditions you and your car are surrounded by? Do that and your driving skills will progress very quickly! Complaining is only wasted time you could have been using to practice! (For those who are requesting a refund, would you buy a car without a test drive or or atleast watch videos of others test drives etc? Be a smart consumer, it will benefit you GREATLY! ✌🏻)

This game looks like it was made for a PC, runs like it was made for a console, and somehow plays on an iPhone. I thought this would look worse plugged into an external monitor, but somehow it genuinely looked like I was playing on my PC. I showed a friend without telling them it was my iPhone and they said it looked sick thinking it was a PC. ON A PHONE?!?! I would pay for this game a second time just to keep playing it… I literally love this game. Also on top of that they have a pay once play forever model, which is rare in these days and telling of not only how incredible their game is, but how honest their developers are. I wish there was a way to donate money to this game and to their developers. If you add such a function, I will gladly do so. I hope whoever developed this is this reading this. Thank you so much for making such an incredible game, I don’t know how you do it but we appreciate you.

i had recently heard that this game was ported to IOS, and i instantly bought it! and to no one’s surprise, this is an amazing port of the console version! this has to be the BEST mobile racing game you can get, and its worth every last penny. it does burn your battery down extremely fast, but there is a battery saver mode that does the job. the controls can take time to get used to, but you can customize it to your will so anyone can get the hang of it quickly. and if you’re a console player like me, it has MFI controller support. Feral did an absolutely wonderful job porting this to mobile, and all of the DLC is free, of course. if you’re looking to play a racing game on your phone, choose this one overall! you get EVERYTHING at the start, so you don’t need to work for anything. this is a one of a kind game!

The preset controls for this game are absolute garbage. Feels like the car is driving itself, but once you do some adjusting of the acceleration and saturation of the accelerometer and put the driving mode on at least simulator pro it gets a lot better. There are a lot of well known tracks though less so with the cars, not as many cool cars but some unique ones and they cars all feel different which is really important. This game honestly feels very much like project cars 2. The cars tend to slide a lot on the asphalt but it’s not terrible and for the platform it’s on, the physics are actually great. Overall worth the money, just like real racing 3 back in its day, this game does the impossible and makes a smartphone game look almost like a console game, while still having good physics and a rewind feature.

Ya know I just bought this game a few months ago and I’m pretty impressed. This is the first time I’ve seen game almost competing up to Forza motorsport. I mean, yes, people are saying that the steering seems a bit off and I had that problem turned a setting on and it was pretty normal from there. I like how there going for a more “Simulation style than other racing games” and I really like that. It brings out the heart of racing. I mean there’s a few bugs here and there but you gotta expect that it’s a game there’s always gonna be bugs. Overall it’s a great game and if you looking to buy then you should it will impress you if your looking for a good racing game that’s console quality. But if your looking for something easier then you should look for something else thank you for reading and have fun racing!

This is hands down the best racing game on iOS. Not just racing sim, racing game. Forget RR3 and it’s pay to win or spend hours waiting for your car to repair after a race. Pay one reasonable amount up front and you’re good to go. They could have charged $60 for this game and it still would have been a better value than anything else out there.

Great graphics, great options, great everything. I’m only starting to scratch the surface but I’m already way happier than with any racing game before it. Can’t wait to see what else it has to offer.
It may take some time to get used to the controls (like 3D touching instead of only tapping, which is genius really) but you’ll get the hang of it and within minutes won’t be able to put it down. Definitely worth the price of admission.

If you want the best racing game on mobile by far and one of the prettiest game ever to grace the platform, stop reading and go buy this game right now. Why? It's simple, really. this app Autosport is a fully premium experience with content that will take you forever to complete, a ton of ways to play, fantastic visuals, and highly customizable controls and difficulty level that will suit every player out there. Feral Interactive has really brought a console-quality game to iOS. The port of the game is almost perfect, but expect your battery to drain faster than the gas tank of a supercar and also the rare frame drops when visuals are turned up (even on an iPhone X). Despite these small issues, this app Autosport is a fantastic game and one racing fans have been craving for.

I’ve never written a review for anything in my life. But this game is absolutely 100% the best racing game you can get for IOS. I have my settings to simulator (assists slow you down) so it definitely takes a bit of practice to get used to and I’ve crashed out of my share of races but wow. the AI is very intelligent, very quick on the higher settings, graphics are absolutely incredible especially for a mobile game. Ive had it for over a year and the game has crashed one maaaaybe two times. Feral and codemasters did an amazing job here. The only suggestion i have is to allow players to choose their number and maybe put some helmet options. other than that, if you’re looking for a racing game for your phone this is definitely without a doubt the game to pick.

I will preface this review by saying controls for this game outside of a paired physical controller are useless. SO PAIR ONE FIRST BEFORE PLAYING!

I don’t ever write reviews but what codemasters have done here is really something what a car enthusiast and driving enthusiast would appreciate in a mobile driving game. Variety of control options and the use of force touch is nice for throttle and brake control. Now this game has NO MICROTRANACTIONS and includes free dlc bonus cups and hd texture packs free! Now the real treat of this game is THE CARS! Every type of variety from so many different eras. E30, Mclaren F1, 1 Series M Coupe, RX-7, DC2 Type R, NSX R , a friggin HONDA HSV-010 GT CAR, it’s really ridiculous the awesome selection of cars and the crazy thing is you can try them all out from the start as they are all unlocked and ready for you to try in time trial and custom cup modes. I haven’t dived too deep into the career mode but judging from the small bit that I have played it feels like it is going to be long and very detailed one that would get anyone new to racing games build to a good understanding of the sport. Get this game, just pure awesome!