GRIP: Combat Racing

is good

A racing game that isn't afraid of speed
Great music
Some maps are unforgiving but most of them are good fun

Steam only has a Yes or No rating system and no gradients so I won't Vote 'No' to this game. It has very basic graphics and a bit too challenging for a futuristic/science fiction arcade racing game. After a race I don't know why the game explains the Tie breaker criteria to rank the AI players even if they are no tied to me. The game cost me $1 so I can't complain. Combat racing feels pretty cool and overtaking at 500 kmph is even cooler. I only played the 'Campaign' mode which has 11 Tiers, after 6 hours I finished Tier 6 then I uninstalled it.

It was the same and better than the last game of the same developer of the PS1 game Rollcage. It was my childhood game and seeing it made into a modernise version and better mechanisms made my adulthood much more brighter.

I played it from time to time and got LVL 30 with the secret car. The best thing of this game is the hyperspeed. It makes the game much more fast pace and fun to race, though I notice the CPU players can't adjust to uptick of speed limit.

All I want to say is Thank you to the developers for making my childhood game an amazing reboot(?, unsure of the term)

Overall a fun race arcade game with 4 split screen players and 10 online players. Using a controller is recommended.

A unique racing game. Like the Flatout series, it stands out from the crowd of Forza and other garbage.

7/10

Solid racing game make sure to get it on sale thought I got it for $3

Grip is a fine game, all things considered. It's got a very distinct identity for a racing game, but the physics engine really fights the fun sometimes. Here, just have some notes:

+ The track variety, and the number of alternates routes within each track, is very nice.
+ The car variety, and the customization system, is pretty good.
+ The AI is really good at racing. Like, oh boy.
+ Driving upside down and on walls can feel really cool at times.

BUT,
- Some of the tracks, in some places, are a nightmare to approach even with practice. You're meant to stick to the track as it corkscrews around, but if you nudge your car at all while it's in a twist like that, it flies off of the track and loses you an incredible amount of time.
- Sometimes you take jumps that seem like they'd be perfectly fine, but then the game thinks you're out-of-bounds and automatically resets your car to somewhere else.
- It's disorienting, even to my lifelong-gamer brain, when the car's rolling uncontrollably in the air and the camera's rolling with it.
- Trying to crash into other cars with your car, even when you're driving something with a high "strength" stat, is unsatisfying and often even bad for you. Sometimes you can nudge someone off a corner if you're on the inside and they aren't, but if you ram a car from behind, all it does is bring the other car up to speed with yours. The other car doesn't need to do much corrective steering. If vehicle damage is enabled, a full-speed ram still doesn't do any. And you don't get any points for ramming someone in a demolition event, either. Maybe I'm overstating it, but the state of the game's car crashes disappointed me.

So the game's not any magnum opus, but it's just fine if you're looking for a new experience. I bought it on sale, I played the whole campaign, and I'd call it worth the money and most of the time I gave to it, even with my complaints.

Way more fun than you might think. Lot's of options and difficulties, so if you git gud you can easily make it challenging again.

Easy to play. Cool graphics.

omg so worth it I absolutely love this game!

broken toe 🥀🥀🥀

Very nice and enjoyable piece of art <3

The game is really fun and enjoyable in VR, however, the VR controllers do not function as a gamepad and you must use a xbox controller or something similar which is annoying, but I found a workaround, you can use IndeX360 to use your VR controllers as a gamepad. This works even with other headsets such as oculus quest. (Unfortunately there is no option to rebind the puase button though.)

I hit my friend with the machineguns and his explosion launched me off the map, 10/10

do ya like Mario Kart? do ya also like Forza Horizon? then THIS GAME IS FOR YOU! there's a lot to like about this game. it ain't perect, but it's dam fun.

Fun to play splitscreen.

I have asked for this game to be refunded several times and Steam has refused.
This game fails to deliver on the promise of its promotional material.

The mechanics are confusing, the graphics are muddy and the overall game play is incredibly disorienting.

There are several ways in which this game fails to deliver on its promise under Australian Law.

I recommend not buying this game and exercising extreme caution when purchasing any game without a Demo.

Absolutely awesome racing. Mayhem and speed! 8/10 Recommended.

Nice game but unable to hook for a long time.
Refunded

a throwback to all the great sci fi racing games that were on console.

Rollcage and Rollcage Stage II was my favirots in my jung days. Grip is not close to it but still good it has his own feeling love it a lot. just sad that there are not enough people online.

grip

Loved this game... I used to play Rollcage when I was kid, almost same functions... Tracks are amazing and engaging... Highly Recommend...

Failed to GRIP me, despite the exciting premise.

I just felt bored playing a game where you drive at "high speed", fire bullets & missiles at other vehicles, and driving on the walls and roofs of the maps. The game looks more impressive on paper than it plays.

Sound effects, music and even something small as how the vehicle collide with other objects just felt underwhelming. Your missiles can even "friendly fire" you instead, and just throw you off, ruining your chances of success.

You might have some fun with this game, but I just didn't feel anything hooking me. Last thing I did before stopping was try the painting, which felt limited but okay, and then I looked at the sparse amount of online sessions available.

I bought this game along with a few other racing games, and just for comparison, I played Distance for 90 minutes straight. Only reason I stopped was because I finished the first adventure mode.

If you were a fan of Rollcage - you will be a fan of Grip!!

Probably one of the best racing games I've ever played
Definitely underrated

GRIP: Combat Racing is an impressive arcade racer, one that harkens back to the glory days of racers such as WipEout, while adding its own innovations. It not only brings back the exciting racing gameplay of the highly underrated Rollcage series, it manages to make it even more enjoyable. Factor in online play and you're left with one of the best arcade-style racing games ever made.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3424286973

This is as close to a Motorstorm sequel as you're going to get (and strangely, an f-zero one too, even though redout exists)

yes

good concept, failed execution. the idea of a game where the track seemingly has no boundaries and you can flip, invert and tumble your vehicle as you race with an array of weapons can be appealing to the eye at first, but after playing a couple of races it just feels like that's all i'm doing; flipping, inverting and tumbling with no sense of direction. so yeah...not my cup of tea.

I commend the concept though. It reminds me of those R/C cars that can flip and invert and keep riding. Taking that and putting that into a combat racer is cool idea.

So...I personally can't recommend it, but if you're interested in an arcade combat racer, it is what it is.

Pretty fun. Playing it exclusively in VR. You really need a good GPU to run it properly in VR, though. In order to render 25 million pixels (Bigscreen Beyond), a 7900 XTX is _just_ good enough to get the job done with 75 fps if you have most settings on high/max.

FPS is locked in VR on 60 frames while its 120 in steam vr and in headset itself

love this game

Too much shit on the tracks stopping you dead in your tracks. Glitchy air transitions of some tracks. Some parts of tracks look like parts of the track are not part of the track and you get ported back to the real track but then I've already lost track of what's going on. Game is called grip but be having no feeling that I got any grip on either the track or any situation that presents itself. Slight nudge you will go into space. Feels like toy cars on mars not real big boy vehicles with low hanging t*******les. Rubber banding of the rubber wheels of the cars that bounce like rubber balls and fly like rubber ducks. The physics Don't follow the laws of physics more like moon racing than anything or cars on mars spittin bars driving to the hospital I got a case of the sars. Did I mention too many walls and rocks and cliffs and entire mountains in the way. I've seen real racing on tv they do not have that much stuff on their tracks in fact they try to minimize anything on the track cause it's dangerous to leave stuff out. I think the creators of this game are sadistic and know it's dangerous and put all that stuff there on purpose just so you have a hard time. It would almost count as an attempt at murder but they try to stage it like an accident. Also you're given many rockets and weapons and boosts making everything even more dangerous racing was dangerous enough as it was now add mario cart like weaponry exept you won't find any bananas. It can be casually fun with multiplayer online friends etc. but it just doesn't reach the heights it could be reaching cause it'll just teleport itself back.

Just good

Arcade racing that feels really good to play

Old school psx era style racer. Pretty fun and worth the time especially at sale price. Perfect on the steam deck on proton 7.

This game is not bad

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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.

Refunded this game because VR mode wasn't as fun and immersive as I thought it would be. But over all, this game is pretty fun and good, but I bought it for VR and my expectations were too high. Still a great game!

Overall the game was good for the price. The fast pace racing was a little difficult to manage. It reminded me of playing Kinetica on PS2. The different game modes and courses were fun. The few hiccups I ran into didn't detract from the enjoyment of the game.

Pro's
+ Intense Soundtrack 🎧
+ Innovative Mechanics 🎯
+ Beautiful Maps 🏔️

Con's
- Extremely Small Player Base 👻
- Weird Matchmaking / Server Hosting System 💩

It's like Blur (2010) if you were able to drive on the walls.
At the same time, the driving feels a bit different coming from Blur but as I only have about 30 minutes in the game, I believe i'll get used to it.

IM FUCKING GRIPPINGGGGGGGG GRAHHH I AM ADDERALL INCARNATE I AM FUCKING SPEEDDDDD REBORN!!!!!!!!!!!!

would refund but i got it for a few dollars so im not too worried but holy the optimisation is terrible im running a RTX 4070 i7 12700kf and the game still stutters all my drivers are up to date and im even running my oculus right into the GPU every other game i own that requires way more advanced hardware runs 60 fps plus

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.

This game is an absolute gem of a racer. This is what imagined games like Motorstorm where in the past.

The engine power of the "wild" in the settings of the game server "grip" shows that people very rarely take first place on tracks with cliffs, and strangers with real names without the suffix [bot] sometimes deceive real people, both on the keyboard and on top controllers. And this can be a crime by police service.
The campaign mode and the game music are excellent.
I have never seen cheats for this game, and it is difficult to imagine how to achieve victory with them.