GRIP: Combat Racing
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the Game
WHEELED AND ANTI-GRAV RACING FUSION
GRIP is a high octane, hardcore combat racer, packing ferocious speed and an arsenal of heavy weapons.
Harness the power of gravity-defying wheeled or airborne vehicles, and smash your way through opponents with a bristling arsenal of outlandish weapons. GRIP delivers one of the fastest and most unique racing experiences ever as you scale walls, ceilings and anything else you can get your ride onto. Master twisting tracks, tricks and perform ridiculous stunts, fighting your way across alien planets to become the ultimate vehicular assailant.
Now in VR!
Prepare for the most intense, mind-melting racing experience in VR! Inject yourself into the game, feeling every turn, impact and stomach-testing inversion. Can you make it through the race? Only one way to find out…
*Sick bag not included.
REACH MACH 1 SPEEDS
Hit speeds of up to 767mph and beyond on floors, walls, ceilings and anywhere you can get your ride to… just keep that pedal pressed hard.
RACE ACROSS THE COSMOS
Race your way through 29 tracks across a host of 4 exotic planets; from hostile, icy worlds to foreign, non-terrestrial cities to the outer reaches of space.
CREATE THE ULTIMATE RIDE
Choose from a roster of 30 armored vehicles to suit your style – some swift and agile, others brutish and heavily armed. Progress your player level and customize your ride with unlocked paint jobs, decals, tires and rims.
TEAM MODES
Battle it out with online team racing and deathmatch modes.
DEVASTATE YOUR OPPONENTS
Pick-up an array of 9 power-ups and weapons, from shields and turbos, to rail-guns, missiles and explosive darts – all with alternate fire modes.
COMPETE ON THE COUCH
Compete with friends in SPLIT-SCREEN multiplayer, with up to four players.
TAKE THE RACE ONLINE
Build your own tournament, line the grid with up to 10 players and compete online with full matchmaking & lobby support.
ENTER THE DEATHMATCH ARENA
Duke it out with intense action in 5 Arena battle maps.
BECOME ONE WITH THE CAR IN CARKOUR
Beat the clock, avoid obstacles and find new pathways in 19 point-to-point Carkour runs.
CONQUER THE SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN
Be the best, beat in-game rivals and rise to the top in the single player campaign. Gain XP and customize your ride’s appearance with hard-earned upgrades.
SICK BEATS
Race to a 24 track thumping licensed electronic soundtrack, ranging from techno and trance to our main jam, drum n bass.
BUILT WITH UNREAL
Built in Unreal Engine 4, GRIP will take you back to your nostalgic past, while simultaneously propelling you into an electrifying future.
Game Discussion
Steam User 19
This game does a good job of making the car you're driving actually FEEL fast, which is not something i can say about the newer triple A titles.
The maps are beautiful and deliver a great atmosphere, i can almost imagine myself participating in an underground racing community in a distant future, across various planets and ecosystems.
Soundtrack is pretty good, you got some DnB, techno, playing in the background while you're racing upside down, 400km/h trough what i can only describe as a giant (think matrix) maintenance tunnel, blasting the guy in front of you with a minigun. Reminds me of an old ''space racing'' android game which i used to play way back in middle school.
It's got multiplayer, SPLITSCREEN LOCAL MULTIPLAYER, vehicle customization albeit little, limited to tires and paintjobs but its enough.
Overall a great casual arcade experience.
Steam User 19
Combat racing game with super fast paced gameplay.
There is also an arena mode that places more emphasis in the combat aspect.
Great graphics at the time that still are great to watch.
Fairly decent selection of race tracks with a good, if generic and almost plot-less, campaign.
Decent techno sounndtrack to top it off.
VR compatibility is a plus.
Some mechanics are underutilized, such as jumping.
Vehicles could have used a little more variety in stats and attributes. I also feel that there could be more powerups available too.
Overall, still a very good game even at full price, and has very deep discounts when it goes on sale, which is often. 9/10
Steam User 10
2 minute TLDR:
Grip is a ton of fun, for people who are fans of the old Rollcage series. While not perfectly polished, the little snags the game does have don't massively hold it back from being enjoyable alone or with friends.
Steam User 8
Pretty good remake/reboot of the classic Playstation 1's Rollcage games (plays the same, looks cooler). Really fast combat racer (speeds comparable to Star Wars: Pod Racers at MAX settings (lower pod racer speeds, but still pod racer speeds)), you can drive on the walls, ceilings, under-tracks; while flinging weapons at one another. Is it like F-Zero/Wipeout? If you subtract your wheels, yes. Can you subtract your wheels? Yes. Wheels are optional. Music? Well, you can listen to the default soundtrack, or you can customize the soundtrack. You'd be surprised at what music/soundtracks work well for racing. Oh, and for the brave/iron-stomach, it also has VR mode.
Oh yeah, there's also doing Carkour (Parkour with cars) challenges, and Combat Arena for anyone that remembers playing Twisted Metal back in the day; or Super Mario Kart battles.
Steam User 6
A lot of fun if you have a controller. You can buy it cheap too at $3.20 on sale. There's a bunch of dlc but its all cosmetic so no problem. I was honestly getting bored with all the games I have and somehow I feel like this is the best thing I've bought. Is it a realistic racer game? No its better. Its looks and runs great, is a lot of fun and has a good learning curve. The racing takes priority over combat/weapons which add a nice touch of flavor to the races. You can turn it off if it bothers you but its a lot of fun for me. Lots of good maps too. I just finished the campaign and I have to say its more there for you to learn the courses and get better. There is no story other than the rival system at the end of each tier. It lets you play through all the courses while upping the difficulty with each tier. A great way to keep learning the courses, have fun, and test your skills as the difficulty progressively increases. Yes buy this game and recommend it to others if you like it. Steam reviews are important for highlighting games like this.
Steam User 7
Call it bias, nostalgia, whatever, but I'm willing to come off as potentially ignorant just to tell you that essentially there's nothing comparable to this game on the market.
Physics, speed, maps, sounds, powerups, graphics, vehicles, difficulty, customization, music player, ultrawide support, high refresh rates... All of it, i have almost no complaints here.
This is my racing bliss and until something better comes out it will stay that way. Real shame the multiplayer is a ghost town. Real shame Grip 2 doesn't seem like a possibility.
Redout is the only alternative to this game that's worthy of being mentioned. It also beats this in the soundtrack department, by light years, but nothing much else.
Steam User 5
VERY fun high octane combat racer. It's just a shame there is no community online. If we could get a competitive community together it would be outstandingly addictive.