Undertegnedes hjerte sank helt ned i fødderne, da det blev annonceret, at Codemasters ikke ville lave et cockpitview i deres kommende GRID 2. En kæmpe skuffelse for mange af de mere hardcore fans, og nettet har da også lydt af sure opstød og protester. Codemasters har snakket med Eurogamer, hvor de fortæller, at kun 5% af spillerne benytter sig af in car cockpit view ifølge Codemasters' dataindsamlinger fra deres servere. Derfor vil de hellere spendere pengene på andre ting, så som bedre baner, flottere biler og kørefysik. Cockpitview var dog en stor del af det, der virkelig gjorde det originale GRID fedt. Det bliver derfor spændende at se, om spillet vil holde det høje popularitetsniveau, det fik lige efter annonceringen. Alle bilspil, der bare vil tages en smule seriøst i dag, har cockpitview. Men hvad med dig, er du skuffet over manglen på cockpitview i GRID 2?

"While we certainly don't want to alienate any of our fans, we want to deliver truly exciting features that 100 per cent of our players will enjoy. Video game development is always about trade-offs and in this case taking the hard decision to lose the in-car views for five per cent of our players (and remember we still have bonnet cam and bumper cam, which many people with racing wheels use) is something we felt was more beneficial to everyone. They are expensive to run due to the requirement for high-resolution interior textures which are seen close-up and require a considerable amount of in-game memory (to store) and processing (to render).

"What this means in practice is that the benefit to our vehicle models, environment models and the hundreds of other things in the environment sapping memory is huge. By making this educated call, we can use the extra available memory to make the on-track racing a truly mind-blowingly immersive experience.

For example, we can author and run higher-resolution vehicle models with more detailed geometry. We can feature higher-resolution external vehicle textures and work further detail into our environment textures. We can dedicate more processing power to our improved physics systems, integral to the Grid 2 experience, and push other systems to the next level, such as particles and real-time lighting. And there are many more benefits."