I tell you, this is a bad start for a new racing game. A couple of hours ago we informed you about Codemasters’ upcoming sequel to GRID. Awesome news, right? Well, get ready to be disappointed as Codemasters confirmed that there won’t be any cockpit view in GRID 2. Yeap, a racing game without a cockpit view. What’s also funny is that Codemasters believes that only the 5% of racing gamers use that view while playing their games. Hilarious.

This was revealed in GameTrailers’ interview with Clive Moody, executive producer of GRID 2. You can view the interview below and Moody talks about the cockpit view around the 3:23 markpoint. As Moody said:

“So, we made some bold decisions based on player feedback and some of the data we have access to and cockpit view is no exception to that. And yet we tried but we are dropping that view from this version of the game.”

 

Moody continued:

“A couple of key reasons behind it: The first is, you know, what our data tells us is actually very very few gamers actually using that view. It’s in the region of 5%. One of twenty people actually choose to use the cockpit view.”

Moody concluded:

“To implement a cockpit view is a huge amount of resource from our point of view, it’s a big time investment, it’s a big cost investment, and when we’ve looked at this – and thought as well – we could take that time, we could take that investment and actually, we could turn it into something that every single player’s going to be benefit from.”

So there you have it racing fans. Apparently you are the minority using a cockpit view. This also means that you can kiss goodbye to the sim part of GRID 2 (or its semi-sim part) as most sim racing fans know that you can’t race without using the cockpit view in a sim racing game. Let’s hope at least that it will be a fun arcade game!

Honestly I never use it.

I tried using it once in Diddy Kong Racing and Mario Kart and I can confirm that it's a terrible view that not only detracts from the experience but makes it unnecessarily difficult to play.

Good riddance.

That was your problem right there...

playing an actual racing game, it's a very important feature.

I hate cockpit view. The cockpit and hood just makes it harder to see. I always use the front bumper view or whatever you call it.

If I want cockpit view I'll drive my car around.

Unless you use a 3+ screen/console/game set-up, it's very limiting. And how many racing game fans can really afford that?

"What’s also funny is that Codemasters believes that only the 5% of racing gamers use that view while playing their games. Hilarious."


What's hilarious about that? 

If simple racing games like Mario Kart have a cockpit view, there is absolutely no reason Grid shouldn't have one either. Even if it's 5% of people that use it(don't believe that at all), that 5% is probably the super hardcore racing fans that buy those very expensive racing rigs. If you ever watched simracingtonight, they mainly always use the cockpit view.

bad that it won't have it because i play often with it but it's true and not hilarious to say that almost no one is using it