GRID Legends announced for 2022 and it’s surprisingly story-heavy

With an extra helping of FMV cheese

The GRID series is going in a different direction with the next game, GRID Legends, which launches in 2022 across PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. For better or worse — that depends on what you want from your racing games — there’s a silly and dramatic FMV vibe to the story mode, a self-described “underdog tale” with an “eclectic cast.”

GRID Legends was revealed with a trailer during the EA Play Live 2021 stream. EA now owns Codemasters, remember? That said, this game seem𒉰s pretty far along.

Codemasters says this will be GRID‘s “largest-ever car roster” — there’s even big rigs — with 130 routes in GRID Legends, some of which are “historic GRID venues,” and some of which are new racing spots in Moscow and London. After the last game, , it seems that plenty of long-time fans are hoping the only place to go from here is up.

There are more details (but not a ton) on the game’s , including screenshots.

My original headline was going to be “GRID Legends is going hard on story,” but, you know.

Do you think they’re on the right track with an over-the-top and hopefully memorable story meant to spice up the usual gameplay, or have they leaned too far in that direction? I suppose we’ll have to see how many scenes are squeezed in between the actual races.