14 DAY TRIAL // Race Driver: GRID, the new racing experience from Codemasters (the same people who brought you the Colin McRae: Dirt game and the Race Driver series), is going to get a multi-platform release this summer and, as expected, details regarding the different game modes have started to hit the web. The first ones who have details about the online multiplayer mode are Portuguese website ene3.
According to them, the online multiplayer races won't last forever in case some of the competitors decide to play the bad guy and forget about fair play - after the first two cars pass the finish line, there are 30 seconds left for the others to finish the race, too. If that does not happen, the race ends anyway after these 30 seconds - great news for pros, bad news for cheaters. Also, the host of the multiplayer races will be the one responsible for choosing the rules of the race, its type and the track (with "private races" being possible too, according to the Portuguese website, which could probably mean direct IP, but we doubt it).
For those of you who are fond of stats and all kinds of achievements and rankings, Race Driver: GRID offers everything they could've dreamed for: race times for all users and all tracks, final positions in each race, the total number of races won and lost, the total number of kilometers covered and, of course, the cherry on top - a ranking system. The last part of the report gets really fuzzy for the translation tool (and for my abysmal Portuguese knowledge), but one thing is clear: there will be more types of online races (or events) and Le Mans will be one of them, as well as drift and "resistance" races.
Also, all the players will start the game as Rookies and race their way in GRID in order to become Legends. But that will happen sometime during this summer and until then, we really hope Codemasters will have mercy and send us some more information (or, at least, to somebody who speaks English).