GRIP: Combat Racing

This is better than Mario Kart and any other combat based racing games out there! Just buy it and it's DLC and you won't regret it.

Very hard, very unforgiving, but extremely ambitious and satisfying as all hell. Reminds me of the extreme-G days when racers had grit.

Absolutely love this game. If you were a fan of fast-paced racers like WipEout or F-Zero GX, this is one you shouldn’t miss. It’s visually stunning, very well optimized, and the handling feels excellent. The only area that could elevate it further would be the addition of more weapons and deeper vehicle customization. That said, the track design and overall variety are superb. Great work, Caged Element.

O filho de Rollcage está a altura 👌 Full power supersonic psicodelic fast grip racing! What you waiting for?! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 10/10 graphic speed racing >>>It's not for everyone! Needs a lot of game skill <<<

This game has one of the worst vehicle physics I have experienced in a racing game. It destroys the whole experience and it's sad to see because it had potential. The vehicles are unique and cool. And the tracks are nice. I tortured myself to play it to complete achievements. I Didn't have fun because of the handling. The vehicles go too fast in my opinion to even have time to react to the environment. There are so many routes and narrow tunnels to take on the track. How the vehicles react to walls is not good. Because you go too fast you often drive into walls and you think they will catch you but the vehicle continues to drive on walls and throw you into the air which forces you to reset and you get passed by everyone. The AI is also so frustrating they constantly shoot at you which make the vehicle fly all over the place and you need to reset it. They are also way too good to keep up with. It's so frustrating to play. It's just luck if you win.

In the pursuit of playing something with the vibe of the old-school arcade racers, I stumbled upon GRIP. With only a couple hours in, I just wanted to lay down the controller and stop. There is some real potential here but the execution shows too many lackluster aspects to feel like it is worth it. 6/10 Pros: - The game gives a really satisfactory feeling of speed that few racing games pull off this well. - Vehicle handling feels good. Vehicles feel heavy with real grunt in the engine and high max speed. This makes it feel like a mashup of F-Zero GX with old arcade racers like Micro Machines or early Hot Wheels. - Gameplay is item-focused like Mario Kart. The weapons track opponents really well and they are really effective, making them fun to use. - Visually the game looks pretty decent overall. Cons: - If you crash, you will often come to a complete standstill. Accelerating back to full speed takes 5-10 seconds. Apart from getting lucky with items, you have no means of catching up quickly. - The camera will flip abruptly when you rotate or flip during a jump, often making it a nightmare to try to understand what is going on, let alone recovering. - Map design is horrendous in parts, for no reason whatsoever. Ramps, shortcuts and other optional paths are prone to flip you in ways that you would never expect. Some tracks provide no indication of where to go. - Being hit by a weapon often leads to crashing out completely with no meaningful catch-up mechanisms. - NPC difficulty starts out disappointing. They are not fast but handle the weapons perfectly making racing results more of a coin flip than skill expression. When in 1st place, hoarding defensive shields provides better results than a more proactive playstyle. - Unlocking vehicles doesn't provide better stats, you can merely choose between more different styles. There is no real progression apart from aesthetics. - Some of the minor visual aspects and flavor text feel excessively cringy, as though a 10-year old kid tried to force his idea of cool into the game at every chance he got.

Not Recommended

For a game named "grip", there's surprizingly little of it. The vehicles understeer like crazy, the brakes seemingly do nothing, and a lot of the gimmicks are completely irrelevant, such as jumping. Vehicular combat feels pointless, the weapons aim wherever they please. Play one round of "death match" and you'll see what I mean. But the worst offender by far is the track design. Tracks are not "legible" in the sense that you can read them as you drive. You have to know in advance that after this wall will be a sharp left turn and you need to brake for it well in advance. I've played the game for 90 minutes now, and it's just been so...frustrating.