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Grid features beautiful presentation and excellent, responsive driving controls that scale from mindlessly-satisfying arcade style to realistic brutality. The career mode is a shining example of how to give players the freedom to choose the activities they want to play while still rewarding risk taking and giving a framework for the on track action. Each event brings up a difficulty menu that encourages you to ramp…
The skeleton of a great class-based multiplayer shooter is present underneath some irritating control and pacing decisions. Interesting class abilities like artillery, airstrikes, and weapon emplacements add flavor to the action. The objective-based mission structure adds some context to the fragging and serves to funnel the fight to specific locations on the generally well-designed maps. However, the learning curve…
To a contemporary audience the player models can look cartoonish when compared to the current generation of offerings by Sony and 2k, but when it comes to tight, responsive control and a wise balance between realism and arcade pacing, MVP 2005 remains king of the diamond. Hitting, pitching, and fielding have all never felt better. MVP has a talented mod community that has kept the rosters to-date and has even added…
