EA has swept up a lot of the main gamers within the racing sport growth scene. Codemasters was the most recent acquisition, simply taking place on the finish of 2020, an organization that’s been making racing video games since approach again in 1986. Their hottest racing franchises, nonetheless, are the F1 and Grid collection. With so many racing franchises beneath their publishing wing, many had been not sure whether or not or not we’d see one other Grid sport anytime quickly.
During EA Play Live 2021, we bought a bombshell of an announcement, trailer and all, for the following sport within the Grid franchise, Grid Legends. There’s a built-in viewers for this collection that can robotically be excited for an additional high-speed, lovely racing expertise, but in addition a whole lot of causes for brand new followers to take a more in-depth have a look at this sport. This sport is trying to reinvent the longstanding racing collection with loads of new options and enhancements. Here’s every little thing we all know up to now concerning the upcoming Grid Legends.
Further studying
Release date
Unfortunately, this announcement trailer, regardless of having some actually thrilling data, didn’t include the all-important launch date. EA did say that they count on the sport to return out sooner or later in 2022, however that was as particular as they wished to get. Just based mostly on our personal hunches and hypothesis, we count on it both within the fall of 2022 or pushed into 2023.
Platforms
There’s no launch date but, so we don’t know when we will play Grid Legends, however we do know the place we will play it. This subsequent racing journey will hit each last- and current-generation consoles, together with PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, in addition to PCs.
Trailer

The official reveal trailer was fairly brief and really distinctive for a racing sport. It did showcase a whole lot of vehicles, tracks, and environments, but in addition a whole lot of live-action segments. While unusual at first, we later discovered that the brand new story mode is trying to actually up their manufacturing by having a solid of live-action actors positioned on the planet of the sport. The closest comparability to this may be what we noticed in Quantum Break, the place sure scenes had been shot in live-action.
The trailer confirmed off quite a lot of solid members, most notably Ncuti Gatwa, who some could acknowledge for his function within the Netflix collection Sex Education. He might be simply certainly one of many actors enjoying the function of racers, pals and rivals, that can make up the solid of this expanded story. We don’t know way more about this story, besides that it appears to be Codemaster’s most formidable but.
Gameplay
At its core, Grid Legends goes to be precisely what you assume: A high-octane, fast-paced, dynamic racing sport that pushes your driving expertise to the boundaries. Again, we haven’t seen precise gameplay simply but, however we really feel fairly assured in the truth that, aside from some new mechanics, you may count on a pure racing expertise right here.
What new particulars we do have are all very thrilling for this subsequent entry. We will be capable of absolutely customise each certainly one of Grid Legends vehicles, which can be expanded to embody basic tourers, single-seaters, and even huge rigs as seen within the trailer. The full variety of vehicles at launch hasn’t been shared but, however we do know that there might be over 130 routes, with loads of iconic real-world tracks like Brands Hatch and Indianapolis, alongside model new locals from throughout the globe comparable to London and Strada Alpina.
Aside from modifying your vehicles, gamers can even be capable of create their very own occasion sorts. Want to make an occasion all about seeing who can pull off the longest drift or have team-based elimination-style races? Go for it! You may even throw in additional arcade-style choices like boosts. Everything you make or different gamers make will be shared on-line by way of the customized occasion browser.
Multiplayer
EA and Codemasters don’t even have to state it, although they do reference it nonetheless, for us to know that there might be multiplayer in Grid Legends. Every Grid sport that has come out has had a multiplayer element, and now greater than ever, on-line communities and games-as-services are being pushed, particularly by huge publishers like EA. As we talked about, we all know that there might be some type of multiplayer server or playlist browser the place you may play different folks’s created sport modes and presumably additionally all the usual modes we count on.
The solely query we have now on this matter is that if there might be any split-screen assist for Grid Legends. Games that push the graphical envelope, in addition to try for prime body charges, comparable to racing video games, are very uncommon to get split-screen choices anymore attributable to {hardware} limitations. We’d love to have the ability to have a good friend subsequent to us on the sofa take part for some races, however for proper now, we’ll have to attend and see if that’s a risk.
DLC
Nothing’s been introduced — the sport itself was solely simply revealed — however that is one other space the place we really feel protected in saying that there most certainly might be DLC added down the road. Racing video games have at all times been an ideal match for additional content material down the road, like new vehicles, tracks, modes, and different choices. It’s straightforward for builders to only preserve including extra to one of these sport with out worrying about any continuity or something like a extra narrative-based expertise.
As with all EA video games, although, we do must preserve a watch out for the way predatory their DLC is. They’ve been doing higher recently, and if tendencies proceed, then we could get maps and modes free of charge however must pay for beauty choices and maybe sure vehicles as properly. If that finally ends up breaking the stability, Grid Legends may find yourself as one other pay-to-win nightmare, however for now, we wish to stay optimistic.
Pre-order
2022 remains to be far off, and if our predictions are appropriate, we’re nonetheless over a yr out till Grid Legends could hit shops and digital cabinets. We have to attend for EA and Codemasters to slender down that large launch window to a selected date earlier than pre-orders will open up, however as soon as they do, we’ll have all the data on the completely different editions, the place to pre-order, and all that enjoyable stuff as quickly because it drops.

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