According to the GRiD developer, Codemasters’ forums and Destructoid, the game’s 360 iteration suffers from bouts of stuttering. As Destructoid’s Jim Sterling puts it:

Reports are coming in of problems with the Xbox 360 version of Codemasters’ Race Driver: GRiD. There is an issue with the game where it suffers from perpetual freezing and stuttering during races. I can confirm that the review copy Codemasters recently secured for me suffers from this as well.

GRiD’s dev team say they’re close to figuring out the problem and that a patch is on the way. Meanwhile, those suffering from freezing issues are advised to take out their hard drives and play using a gamertag that’s been saved to a memory card. I am sure I could say something acerbic and nasty, but I’ll leave it.

While it is great that the guys on GRiD are close to rectifying the issue, this reeks of poor quality assurance and not enough testing. A rush to get this superb racing title out it seems?

If  Infogrames president, Phil Harrison is to be believed, gamers don’t want to be entertained with a good single-player game. All we want is something with an online, community component like Halo 3 or World of Warcraft.

“Alone in the Dark is a beautifully crafted single-player adventure game. I don’t think the industry is going to make many more of those,” said Harrison.

“I just don’t think consumers want to be playing games that don’t have some kind of network connectivity to them, or some kind of community embedded in them, or some kind of extension available through downloadable content.”

As a gamer I feel deeply offended by this statement, I guess Mr. Harrison hasn’t heard about BioShock or Grand Theft Auto 4, two games which sold solely based on their awesome single-player experience. And while such a strategy might seem grand for the West, broadband penetration in India isn’t exactly the highest in the world, it is a good thing then that we’ve some local developers coming out with single-player content, no matter how crappy the effort.