History YMMV / GRID

* PolishedPort: The Nintendo Switch port of ''Autosport'', developed by Codemasters' sister studio Feral Interactive, is extremely well-done. Aside from slight overall performance and graphics improvements, there are now two modes - "Graphics" which enchances them further and makes use of extremely detailed effects, and "Performance" which forgoes them in favor of a smooth 60 fps. In addition to being compatible with every type of Switch controller as well as the Hori racing wheels, the Gamecube controllers that players of [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Smash]] were using can now function with analong triggers, ensuring players can still control the throttle and brakes as they could with the original versions.

* ThatOneBoss: Ravenwest's Nathan [=McKane=] and Rick Scott. They're almost perfect with their cornering, acceleration, and they seem to be either in the pole position or in the middle in the start of each race. Regardless of difficulty[[note]]unless you play on basic(easy) mode[[/note]], [[NintendoHard if you make any apex mistakes such as improper cornering and slipping off the road or if you don't drive aggressively, 9 times out of 10 one of the Ravenwest members will overtake you or overtaking them for the first three positions will be almost impossible.]]

** Circuit de la Sarthe from the "24 Hours of Le Mans event (a 12-15 minute endurance race)". '''You can do it in 24 hours real timr''' if [[BladderOfSteel your bladder feels hardcore]] enough.

** Hoo boy, the Milan street circuit in ''GRID 1'' is a doozy. With narrow alleyways, blind corners, low road visibility, and sidecurbs that can throw your car off balance (or even flip it upside-down in some cases), this track is easily one of the hardest in the game. Thank goodness you don't race on this track a lot in the Career Mode, but when you do, don't be surprised if you end up {{rage quit}}ting at least once or SaveScumming for a better starting position. This track's incredible difficulty is best exemplified when you race in it for the third race of the Global-level Open Wheel championship, the Philips World Championship, where you race on the full version of the circuit in the extremely quick but very fragile and difficult to control Dallara Formula 3.

* ContestedSequel: On one hand, ''GRID 2'' has improved graphics, where ColorWash and RealIsBrown is finally averted and the graphics held up well years after its release. There's also a lot more variety of racing modes. However, the controls have been tweaked to be more drifty reminiscent to arcade-y drift-based games such as ''Videogame/RidgeRacer'', full cockpit view, race crews, and endurance mode is removed, and the career mode was changed from running between seasons to a standard "complete events to unlock the next events".

* ContestedSequel: On one hand, ''GRID 2'' has improved graphics, where ColorWash and RealIsBrown is finally averted and the graphics held up well years after its release. There's also a lot more variety of racing modes. However, the controls have been tweaked to be more drifty reminiscent to arcadey drift-based games such as ''Videogame/RidgeRacer'', full cockpit view, race crews, and endurance mode is removed, and the career mode was changed from running between seasons to a standard "complete events to unlock the next events".
* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first ''GRID'' is better than ''GRID 2''. Some do argue with ''Autosport'' being just as good as ''GRID 1'', though. However not only there is still no pitstop (it was blocked when compared to real race tracks), but the returning cockpit view is blurry and far less detailed than the first ''GRID''.

** Circuit de la Sarthe from the "24 Hours of Le Mans event (a 12-15 minute endurance race)". '''You can do it in actual 24 hours''' if [[BladderOfSteel your bladder feels hardcore]] enough.

** Hoo boy, the Milan street circuit in ''GRID 1'' is a doozy. With narrow alleyways, blind corners, low road visibility, and sidekerbs that can throw your car off balance (or even flip it upside-down in some cases), this track is easily one of the hardest in the game. Thank goodness you don't race on this track a lot in the Career Mode, but when you do, don't be surprised if you end up {{rage quit}}ting at least once or SaveScumming for a better starting position. This track's incredible difficulty is best exemplified when you race in it for the third race of the Global-level Open Wheel championship, the Philips World Championship, where you race on the full version of the circuit in the extremely quick but very fragile and difficult to control Dallara Formula 3.

** Upon the release of ''GRID 2''[='=]s SDK, [[StartMyOwn some fans took it upon themselves, adding cockpit view back in or change the cars' handling.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: You can critically screw up the beginning race and due to the plot still become an internet hit, with Patrick Callahan wanting to fund you. It's easy to interpret your internet display as a popular ''comedy'' video, with Callahan wanting to capitalize on you before you kill yourself.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: All installments of GRID series have some adrenaline-pumping soundtracks that play during replay mode and special orchestra versions for the important license races. Notable tracks includes "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVo-9zeLslQ Razor's Edge]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvFuoKT8fxg Burnbaby]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhKhNEnb-U Vroom]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSoRkeYmTp8 Gridlock]]".

* ContestedSequel: On one hand, GRID 2 has improved graphics, where ColorWash and RealIsBrown is finally averted and the graphics held up well years after its release. There's also a lot more variety of racing modes. However, the controls have been tweaked to be more drifty reminiscent to arcadey drift-based games such as ''Videogame/RidgeRacer'', full cockpit view, race crews, and endurance mode is removed, and the career mode was changed from running between seasons to a standard "complete events to unlock the next events".
* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first ''GRID'' is better than ''GRID 2''. Some do argue with ''Autosport'' being just as good as ''GRID 1'', though. However not only there is still no pitstop (it was blocked when compared to real race tracks), but the returning cockpit view is blurry and far less detailed than the first GRID.

** Shibuya in general is a very tough track in GRID 1; tight chicanes and hairpins, no run-offs, and roads only a few cars wide.
** Okutama's short circuit in GRID 1 and Autosport is definitely not hard, but the Grand Circuit is quite a car-killer. To elaborate: The Grand Circuit goes up a narrow mountain road, with a nasty mix of fast blind corners, sudden and somewhat steep inclines, and bus stop chicanes that do nothing more than destroy cars if their line is poor. Hell, even Ravenwest has trouble navigating the mountain road part cleanly!

** While eventually cockpit view returns in GRID Autosport, it's blurry and lacking any sort of details compared to the highly detailed cockpit of the first GRID (despite being an improvement over the interior models from ''GRID 2'', which used to be very low-poly even on the highest graphical settings).

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: All installments of GRID series have some adrenaline-pumping soundtracks that play during replay mode and special orchestra versions for the important license races. Notable tracks includes "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZutG-8Xy3zc Razor's Edge]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvFuoKT8fxg Burnbaby]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhKhNEnb-U Vroom]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0-s1WKhW0 Gridlock]]".

** Circuit de la Sarthe from the "24 Hours of Le Mans event (a 12-15 minute endurance race)". You can do it in actual 24 hour if [[BladderOfSteel your bladder feels hardcore]] enough.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: All installments of GRID series have some adrenaline-pumping soundtracks that play during replay mode and special orchestra versions for the important license races. Notable tracks includes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjC6-mu2rg Razor's Edge]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNJBqgmWSE&t=46s Burnbaby]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0-s1WKhW0 Gridlock]].

* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first ''GRID'' is better than ''GRID 2''. Some do argue with ''Autosport'' being just as good as ''GRID 1'', though. However not only there is still no pitstop (it was blocked when compared to real racetrack), but the returning cockpit view is blurry and far less detailed than the first GRID.

** Some fans had taken the liking to [[CarFu total]] [[ThatOneBoss Ravenwest]] whether they show up in the first game.
** Cockpit view. See TheyChangedItNowItSucks below.
* ThatOneBoss: Ravenwest. They're almost perfect with their cornering, acceleration, and they seem to be either in the pole position or in the middle in the start of each race. Regardless of difficulty[[note]]unless you play on basic(easy) mode[[/note]], [[NintendoHard if you make any apex mistakes such as improper cornering and slipping off the road or if you don't drive aggressively, 9 times out of 10 one of the Ravenwest members will overtake you or overtaking them for the first three positions will be almost impossible.]]

** 24 Hours of Le Mans (a 12-15 minute endurance race). You can do it in actual 24 hour if [[BladderOfSteel your bladder feels hardcore]] enough.
** The Valvoline Trophy in ''GRID 1''. Shibuya is already a difficult track, but restricting the entire GT2 pool to the difficult-to-handle Spyker C8 Spider...

** The one-on-one duels versus Ravenwest. Any one of them.

** While eventually cockpit view returns in GRID Autosport, it's blurry and lacking any sort of details compared to the highly detailed cockpit of the first GRID.

* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first ''GRID'' is better than ''GRID 2''. Some do argue with ''Autosport'' being just as good as ''GRID 1'', though. However not only pitstop mechanic are not featured yet, but the returning cockpit view is blurry and far less detailed than the first GRID.

* AwesomeMusic: All installments of GRID series have some adrenaline-pumping soundtracks that play during replay mode and special orchestra versions for the important license races. Notable tracks includes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjC6-mu2rg Razor's Edge]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNJBqgmWSE&t=46s Burnbaby]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0-s1WKhW0 Gridlock]].

* FandomBerserkButton: Don't ever, '''ever''' say that ''GRID 2'' is better than the first ''GRID'' to the fandom. [[InternetBackdraft Just don't.]]

** The Valvoline Trophy in ''GRiD 1''. Shibuya is already a difficult track, but restricting the entire GT2 pool to the difficult-to-handle Spyker C8 Spider...

** Hoo boy, the Milan street circuit in ''GRID 1'' is a doozy. With narrow alleyways, blind corners, low road visibility, sidekerbs that can throw your car off balance, this track is easily one of the hardest in the game. Thank goodness you don't race on this track a lot in the Career Mode, but when you do, don't be surprised if you end up {{rage quit}}ting at least once or SaveScumming for a better starting position. This track's incredible difficulty is best exemplified when you race in it for the third race of the Global-level Open Wheel championship, the Philips World Championship, where you race on the full version of the circuit in the extremely quick but very fragile Dallara Formula 3. [[FromBadToWorse Oh, and Ravenwest takes part in this event as well.]]
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: ''GRID 2''. Poor, poor ''GRID 2''. Not only it has been bashed to near-''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' [[Creator/CriterionGames 2012]] levels, it has received a lot of flak from the beginning for of the absence of cockpit view, because, according to Codemasters, only 5 percent of the ''GRID'' players used it. Now that the game's out, the other major complaint is that the game feels more arcade-y than the first game, thus disappointing the fans that expected and preferred the handling of the original.

** Okutama's short circuit in GRID 1 and Autosport is definitely not hard, but the Grand Circuit is quite a car-killer. To elaborate: The Grand Circuit goes up a narrow mountain road, with a nasty mix of fast blind corners, sudden and somewhat steep inclines, and bus stop chicanes that do nothing more than destroy cars if their line is poor.

** 24 Hour Le Mans (a 12-15 minute endurance race). You can do it in actual 24 hour if [[BladderOfSteel your bladder feels hardcore]] enough.

* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first ''GRID'' is better than ''GRID 2''. Some do argue with ''Autosport'' being just as good as ''GRID 1'', though.

* BaseBreaker: ''GRID Autosport''. Was it a true-to-form return to the roots of the original ''GRID'' and a sign of Codies' "redemption" (that was fulfilled following the release of ''[[VideoGame/{{DiRT}} DiRT Rally]]''), or a jaundiced attempt to {{win back the crowd}} that got alienated with ''GRID 2''? Debates are continuing.

* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first ''GRID'' is better than ''GRID 2''.

** 24 Hour LeMans (a 12-15 minute endurance race). You can do it in actual 24 hour if [[BladderOfSteel your bladder feels hardcore]] enough.

* MagnumOpus: Either the first installment or ''Autosport''. Although there is a VocalMinority saying that ''GRID 2'' is this.

* ThatOneLevel: 24 Hour LeMans (a 12-15 minute endurance race). You can do it in actual 24 hour if [[BladderOfSteel your bladder feels hardcore]] enough.

* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first GRID is better than ''GRID 2''.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: You can critically fuck up the beginning race and due to the plot still become an internet hit, with Patrick Callahan wanting to fund you. It's easy to interpret your internet display as a popular COMEDY video, with Callahan wanting to capitalize on you before you kill yourself.
* FandomBerserkButton: Don't ever, '''ever''' say that GRID 2 is better than the first GRID to the fandom. [[InternetBackdraft Just don't.]]
* FirstInstallmentWins: It is pretty much agreed that the first GRID is better than GRID 2.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: GRID 2. Poor, poor GRID 2. Not only it has been bashed to near-''NeedForSpeed Most Wanted 2012'' levels, it has received a lot of flak from the beginning for of the absence of cockpit view, because, according to Codemasters, only 5 percent of the GRID players used it. Now that the game's out, the other major complaint is that the game feels more arcade-y than the first game, thus disappointing the fans that expected and preferred the handling of the original.
** Upon the release of Grid 2's SDK, [[StartMyOwn some fans took it upon themselves, adding cockpit view back in or change the cars' handling.]]

* ThatOneLevel: 24 Hour LeMans (a 12-15 minute endurance race). You can do it in actual 24 hour if you feel [[BladderOfSteel hardcore]] enough.

** Some fans had taken the liking to total [[ThatOneBoss Ravenwest]] whether they show up in the first game.

* NeedsMoreLove: GRID 2 has a small yet very vocal fanbase which defends the game. Plus the game is more or less the same of the first GRID with more authentic cars and an [[BuffySpeak arcadey-feel]] of the car handling that's well executed.

** Upon the release of Grid 2's SDK, [[StartMyOwn some fans took it upon themselves, adding cockpit view back in or change the cars' handling.]]