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Its worth buying if you like this sort of thing. Kids and adults like the game.
Overall, it is worth the money at $20, and even would have been worth it at 25 or 30. (C'mon, it's meant as a more arcade-style racer, you know that is why you would buy a title like this). I am quite satisfied with it, since the arcadey type controls make driving the car easier then the drift-style cars of GT or any of Namco/Bandai's Ridge Racer titles. GRID is an interesting game. Overall, fun title. It allows for damage and the effects on how the car handles, and even allows you to tweak the cars performance some. It is a wonderful racing game that really shows what the DS is capable of. It will not be mistaken for a game like Gran Turismo, since the depth is no where near that title.
Not to mention that the game doesn't really have a great sense of speed to it, as you often feel as if you're not going as fast as you should be. The only drawbacks to Grid includes the fact that the game as a whole just isn't all that hard once you get the hang of it. Multiplayer racing is a blast as well, offering a good amount of options and varieties.
Other than the Need for Speed series, there isn't much that's worth playing on the DS in this department, but thankfully, Grid manages to provide street racing gamers a pretty good time. In fact, Grid as a whole looks pretty good, with the surrounding areas looking fairly detailed. When it comes to street racing games for the DS, you don't have an awful lot of choices.
What really makes Grid worthwhile though is the robust track creator, which also allows you to share created tracks with friends via the DS' Wi-Fi capability. Flaws aside though, Grid is a surprisingly wonderful racing game that DS owners should definitely check out whether they're into street racers or not, and as far as third-party published racing games for the DS go, you can't really do much better than what you find here. Offering a decent amount of races, events, and options; Grid mixes elements of arcade racing with simulation as well, providing a pretty good experience.
There's a great selection of licensed cars to pick from as well, and despite some occasionally odd graphical hiccups, they all look great for a DS game.
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