What impact does new PC technology have on the racing genre?
For a start, it enables gamers to play at far higher frame-rates and resolutions than their console-playing friends. But it’s more than just faster and bigger–multiple cores allow us to process far more in parallel, which means more AI and physics to make the race experience more realistic. What gets you excited about new video cards? GRID requires lots of pixel-shading horsepower along with plenty of VRAM in order to run at those ultra high resolutions like 1920×1200 and 2560×1600 at 4x msaa. These new video cards deliver just that, enabling gamers to get really immersed in the action. Can you talk about your goals going into this game? Put really simply, we wanted to make the most beautiful racing game ever, and the most exciting racing game ever. I think we’ve succeeded in doing both. How has this franchise evolved from a gameplay perspective? The big innovation in GRID is our Flashback system. We’ve always had fantastic damage modeling in our racing games, allowing the player to co
