DLC #167 - Grid - Season 1

If there was ever a game that would benefit most from a quiet exit, it would almost certainly be Grid.

I can't overstate how much that main trophy list grind wore me out - Even more so the impressive feat when you realise it literally required me to do almost nothing and still somehow made me feel that way towards it.

Thankfully, the DLC for Grid is much more forgiving, and we can end this particular relationship on fairly amicable terms at least.

Season 1 adds a hefty chunk of content to the game, including a host of new events, presented as an extension to the main Career Mode under a new tab labelled "Season 1".

There are 33 events in total, split between 15 new Street Racing events, 15 new Pro Racing events and 3 Super Hatch Series Finale events to conclude the season. The package also adds a handful of new cars, but there is an absence of new locations/tracks, which is still a little bit disappointing given the fact this was already a big weakness the game should have addressed. The Season 1 events will still require you to use alot of the existing vehicle roster too, so it'll probably feel like you're mostly just replaying the main Career Mode over again for the most part. Same cars in the same places.

I did toy with the idea of possibly using these additional race events to clock some extra milage towards the "Around the Globe" trophy from the main list, but opted against this because I wanted to just settle on what I ultimately felt was the path of least resistance approach, which eliminated this idea from the decision-making process.

Regardless, the 3 trophies on offer don't require you to go anywhere near the Season 1 Career, and are instead focused on completing 3 new Objectives added to the Player Profile screen.

It was never mentioned in the main list review, but Objectives are just a collection of tasks you can perform to earn some additional experience points away from the core actions of in-game racing, and each of the 3 trophies corresponds to completing a specific objective - All of which are earned for achieving a hot-lap as follows;

• Beat a 4:11 lap time on Okutama Sprint Mizu Mountain with the Audi S1 Quattro Concept
• Beat a 1:38 lap time on Shaghai Waibaidu Way with the Lancia Delta HF Integrale Super Hatch
• Beat a 1:52 lap time on the Havana Paseo de Marti with the MINI Hatch JCW

In all honestly, none of these time trials caused me any issues, and I managed to polish off all 3 trophies within around an hour of play. It's good fun to see and use some new vehicles, but it's all over very quickly. It's also unusual to see so much content left outside of the trophy list, but in this particular instance, that's not a complaint.