What do I have to do!!!!

Argh,

Ok, so ive spent about 6 hours trapsing around town(s) trying to buy race driver grid for the PC.

Avoided pre=ordering it incase i was let down on release day by it not turning up in the post. I went to 2 game stores, HMV, Zavvi, WH Smiths, Woolworths, argos, 3 Tesco Extras a large sainsburys and huge asda, NONE of them have it Not becuase they are sold out, they just dont have it (Apart from asda, was sold out (aparently)).

This is ridiculous I cant believe the COMPLETE lack of service from high street retailers lately, no wonder one one uses them, because they are c**p!!!!!!!!!!

Im going to go to Game again tomorrow. Who could I write to to complain about this, Surely not Codemasters, Id also like a discount as its cost at least a £5 in diesel to travel between the 4 towns I went to. Needless to say im extreamly pissed off.



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Start your own mobile market trader business. There's a niche in the market for pissed off purchasers like you. It's the same this end, I haven't even tried buying it anywhere yet because I know there's no hope. I'll head out to buy one in about a month.

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in related news; quit whining

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How did you work that one out.

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Well the Demo wanted me to cut my ears off since the cars sounded so disgusting. The WTCC BMW has a 6 Speed box in it, despite the real car being a 5 speed H-Pattern box, as any self-respecting motorsport fan should know. And the Audi R10 Diesel Le Mans car not only sounds like a Corvette, it does 260mph. Given the circuits are double the width of real life (I kid you not), the cars corner at over double the speed they can do in real life (again, I kid you not), and the HDR effects are enough to make even bats say "thats enough for me thanks", it's pretty safe to say the game is complete garbage.

For more hilarity on the latest cash in from Codemasters you could just download the Demo, which has been released for the PC, and on xBox Live. Knowing my PC won't be able to run the Demo because it doesn't have 6 8800GTs and 16 CPUs to process the horrible disease that is HDR effects, I went for the XBL download to try it for myself. I found it quite hilarious at first, and then depressing later. You are treated like a moron throughout the game (looking back on it, perhaps that is the target audience anyway), by the menus which assume you can't navigate things correctly, and by your pit crew, who spend the entire race (all 3 laps of it) talking to you like you are a 5 year old who has never sat in a car before, nevermind was lining up on the World Touring Car Championship grid, ready for a Championship event.

Codemasters have put the emphasis on crashing. The cars handle like crap. They sound like crap. The circuits look like crap. The AI drives like crap. But the crash physics are lovely with cool glass effects and semi-realistic roll-overs. But if you want crashes, buy Flatout, not GRiD. If you want a full review, check out this one from VirtualR.

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iceskating anyone? :p




LS's Tip of the week
ESSENTIAL OILS aren't essential unless you're an engine, a gearbox or a twat

Yay! *Waits for next year to be able to do same with F1 car*

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

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Jesus, was that Le Mans? :\

Regardless of what the game says it most certainly was not.

Thats just crap. Good thing no one's buying it on this forum

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In that the corners go in vaguely the same direction as the ones at La Sarthe, yeah. By everyone elses standards, no.

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Le merde, more like.

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oops.

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YAY!

LMAO @ this thread + Monil's fail pic!

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GPGSL S5 Race driver for IED.

It appears this is a lot better than we're giving it credit for...

From the Mirror's Games & Gadgets section on Friday:

"Race Driver: Grid *****
Xbox 360, PS3, £49.99

There's no denying the excellence and attention to detail of pure racing sims like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport. Nevertheless, if, like me, you're more concerned with race excitement than tweaking your traction control, then Race Driver: Grid is probably for you.

The key to Grid's focus on fun is its Flashback feature, which lets you rewind and correct your mistakes. You're allowed to use it up to four times in a race - but you'll be deducted reputation points needed to climb up the rankings and unlock new licenses and events if you do. OK, it may not have the range of vehicles or tracks of some of it's rivals, but there's still a diverse array of options, including a real-time 24-hour simulation of Le Mans.

And the game's excellent damage modelling gives some spectacular results - so much so that you'll often be tempted to plough your vehicle into a rival of a trackside wall just to see the bumpers and hub caps flying.

While it won't get the real purists' vote, Grid's blend of realism and all-out race thrills puts it on top of the podium as the most entertaining motoring game so far this year."

Emboldening by myself.



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