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Got into the mp beta for Grid Autosport on Android and it's so far ahead of RR3. I stopped playing rr3 a while back because, as fun as the racing itself can be (streets ahead of all the other trash on the market), it didn't take me long to realise that it's just like the majority of mainstream mobile games; designed for, around and entirely without consideration of anything else but monetisation. If you had infinite gold, there'd literally be no reason to play the game after a certain, very short period of time. The rewards in the game are what set the "challenge" (fully upgraded car? Nothing is challenging... Costs lots of gold. Reward is... Small amount of gold... What's the point?)

Obviously, they need to make money. And I've supported a lot of developers via iap over the last few years. But this game? There isn't a single purchase in the shop worth splurging the huge denominations of cash they want. A single fully upgraded car can cost twice as much as a AAA PC/Xbox/PS4 title. One car. That lets you race in about 20 identical events to the rest of the game.

I ended up with about 3k gold when I stopped. Couldn't think what was possibly worth blasting that on (which had taken me a few months to build up...). Nothing stood out. The "reward" was just a finite number of races you could do with the car (and rubbish multiplayer I guess).

Then GAS was announced for mobile. I've waited since November 2017 for it and I've finally tried it. It's way better in every single department. I wasn't really fussed about MP, was looking forward to SP mostly but have really enjoyed it in the beta. Way, way, way better, more stable, fun and purposeful than the turgid MP on rr3. I may actually try it properly when I buy gas.

For £9.99.

One off price.

What does £9.99 get you in rr3?

Don't get me wrong. As I said above, rr3 is fun. To a very short-lived point. A couple months or so of fun, I'd say. And sort of free, if we ignore the hundreds of adverts I had to sit through and hundreds of hours not playing the game because I had to wait and no ads were available.

None of that will be a problem with gas. And it plays so well! I turned off the driver aids after the first night playing and it's so much fun to drive! It feels so much closer to how cars actually handle and there's so much more to simply driving than rr3. And it's beautiful too, arguably better looking (less clean and pallid, more gritty and visceral but entirely down to preference, they both look good for mobile games).

I have to say this site helped me tons when I played rr3. It's a pretty great community; the volume of data you lot push out for this game is impressive. I've got a lot of respect for it. But have no clue how so many of you put up with rr3 for so many years.

I won't be playing it again. Gas won't be for everyone. But it's definitely for me. I can't wait to hand over my cash and start playing it. It's a phenomena of a mobile game, is everything this game isn't and well worth its relatively paltry one off price. I'd recommend you give it a go if you're serious about finding a real alternative to rr3.

This has been a long post but even this essay isn't enough to stress just how vastly far apart these two games are in terms of the experience they offer.