What I do know is that in the morning there will be a new episode to watch and a new episode to play through. It also wouldn’t be appropriate to give it a score either though, seen as at the time of writing on a Thursday evening less than 30% of the game is available. Hayfever is free, and you definitely don’t want that.Ĭertainly, The Grand Tour Game is hard to recommend if you are looking for the final word in virtual racing. But, you shouldn’t buy a video game just because it’s cheap.
That includes all 14 episodes plus offline split screen multiplayer, which I think would be around 15-20 hours in total. At £11.99, it’s not just the variety that makes it similar to the Colonel’s fried chicken, but the cost too. Which is just like the show itself, really. The kicker is the price. I bet you didn’t expect that.įor the most part, the surprise and delight masks over the imperfections. During the Columbia special episode, you have to take pictures of animals or find clues to the whereabouts of a bear in a small open world area using a Jeep – something that immediately reminded me of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. a Porsche 918, a timed lap of the Eboladrome, a drift-off, towing something across a beach with an old Fiat Panda or making smoke in the form of doughnuts. It could be an electric-power drag race in a McLaren P1 vs. Each gameplay moment is specific to that episode. It’s the KFC Bargain Bucket of automotive video games. One, you feel more immersed because of the unique set-up and two, there is a huge amount of variety on offer. Like a Jason Statham action movie, it’s enjoyable rubbish. The key to the entertainment is two-fold. You could be po-faced and look down on TGTG, or you could take it with a pinch of salt and roll with it. I can’t help but think an online leaderboard would have spiced things up a little.Īnd yet, weirdly, I had fun. After each experience, you are given a rating of either gold, silver, bronze or toilet.
To make matters worse, you are stuck with just one camera angle, I’ve experienced full crashes that boot me back to the PS4 home screen and there is zero online functionality.
You are either miles in front or suddenly catch up near the end regardless of your efforts. There are power-ups on certain levels, but these are largely superfluous thanks to the strange AI behaviour. Need for Speed or Burnout this most certainly isn’t. Less experienced players will simply smash their way from one wall to another. Except, the cars are too responsive to tiny inputs, leading to either turning into a corner too early or zig-zagging your way down the course after a corner, as you aimlessly try to waggle the analogue stick left or right to regain control. Rightly pitched as an arcade title far away from simulators, lurid drifting and high speeds are the order of the day. My main complaint is with the vehicle handling. Now we have covered the interesting structure, how does it play? Pretty terribly, sadly. The workload to put this together must have been immense. Then every Friday, when every new episode of the third season of the show arrives on Amazon, the game updates with that same new episode to play through at the same time, making 14 episodes in total by the time the current run ends. What makes things particularly unique is that initially, you get to play through season one, episode one and season two, episode two. Sure, you don’t quite get full episodes, they are mildly edited to make the game elements work, but watching and playing a game episode still takes around one hour and a little longer if you are trying to beat your scores in each level. If you’ve not seen episodes of The Grand Tour, especially if you don’t have Amazon Prime, this is a great way to watch the highlights. So, if you are skipping forward, Clarkson portentously shouts “Come on” or “Hurry up”, whereas while rewinding, May proclaims “Now, wait a minute”. When you press either, you can hear a little catchphrase from each presenter. You can skip through the video elements, using R1 for the ‘Clarkson button’ and L1 for the ‘James May button’.