GRIP: Combat Racing

Это самые скоростные гонки в которые я играл. Ощущение от того насколько твоя машина быстрая просто невероятные. Сами по себе уровни начинают душнить примерно на 7-8 этапе от чего бомбить будет тока так, а еще и с управлением очень трудно местами справляться. Но в целом опыт интересный и от других гонок вы такое не получите

Probably my favorite racing game as of right now. The learning curve is rather steep but I think the racing would be a lot less intense if you weren't constantly at risk of hitting something and going to space. Soundtrack's really good, neurofunk drum & bass fits the racing, combat and setting all at the same time. For proper online racing you're gonna have to join the official GRIP discord server, but other than that the online experience is very good.

Не балдел так от игры со времён Split Second. Что-то среднее между Rollcage, Wipeout и Ballistics. Скорость, взрывы, огромные трассы в большом количестве. Всё что нужно. Очень красивая и музяковая беспредельщина.

[b]TL;DR:[/b] [i]GRIP[/i] tries to deliver fast-paced combat racing but stumbles with broken physics, inconsistent difficulty, and a poorly designed power-up system that ultimately detracts from the experience. [hr][/hr] [b]Review:[/b] [i]GRIP: Combat Racing[/i] sets itself up as a thrilling, chaotic combat racer with 11 campaign tiers, each with escalating challenges. A few standout moments, such as the dynamic satellite obstacle on [i]Signal Static[/i] bring a sense of excitement, and some tracks, like [i]SAAT Coast[/i], feature genuinely impressive environmental design. However, these brief highlights are overshadowed by the game's mechanical issues. The deeper you go into the campaign, the more the gameplay falls apart. By tier six, the difficulty curve becomes unpredictable, with "easy" races sometimes feeling disproportionately hard and "hard" races occasionally feeling simple. The real problem is the game's unreliable physics, which makes controlling your vehicle feel inconsistent. For instance, in [i]Signal Static[/i], there’s a section where you must drive up onto a roof. Falling off always results in a reset, but the game respawns you in a position that doesn’t give you enough momentum to recover and drive back up. This forces you to restart the entire race. The power-up system compounds the issue. Like any combat racing game, there are power-ups scattered throughout the track, but the game mishandles their distribution and design. You can pick up any item at any point in the race, regardless of whether you’re in first or last place. This randomness, combined with the fact that you can’t see which power-up you’re about to collect (unlike in [i]Blur[/i], where power-ups are clearly visible), leads to frustrating moments where you might pick up something completely useless when you need it most. This system takes two incompatible elements from [i]Blur[/i] and [i]Mario Kart[/i], getting any item regardless of your standing in the race and an inability to see the pickups, without incorporating the complementary systems that make them work in their original games. In [i]Blur[/i], visibility of power-ups allows for strategic planning, while [i]Mario Kart[/i] balances item randomness by giving you better items if you’re further behind. [i]GRIP[/i] tries but misses the mark by failing to create the necessary balance. Track design is another area where the game struggles. Maps like [i]Atlas Station[/i] beckon you toward power-ups but penalize you with out-of-bounds resets for attempting to collect them, and invisible walls on many tracks, such as [i]Acrophobia[/i], inconsistently block areas of the map, leading to moments where you unexpectedly fly off the course. These design flaws make the racing feel chaotic, but not in the fun, unpredictable way you might expect from a combat racer. Instead, it feels like you’re fighting the game’s design more than your opponents. The soundtrack, consisting mostly of repetitive drum and bass tracks, wears thin quickly. While the music fits the game's tone, hearing the same style of track over and over makes it tedious. Console players have no option to change the soundtrack, which only exacerbates this issue. While the game does allow custom music on PC, this doesn’t excuse the lack of variety and depth in the original soundtrack. The music should enhance the experience, not make you wish you could turn it off. Ultimately, [i]GRIP[/i] feels like a game that’s trying to be something it’s not. While it boasts a few impressive visual environments, the mechanical issues and frustrating power-up system hold it back from being an enjoyable experience. [hr][/hr] [b]Recommendation:[/b] With its inconsistent mechanics, unbalanced power-up system, and frustrating track designs, I can’t recommend [i]GRIP[/i], even to fans of combat racers.

Artistic wise this game is worth every penny of it's price. But gameplay wise.. either give cars air controls or change map courses in a way that they don't send you flying all the time. I thought it's just a matter of learning these maps and knowing where to slow down etc. But completing the entire campaign like this? Makes you ditch the keyboard, this ain't no arcade.

Its basically rollcage but better in pretty much every way. The cars are faster and grippier, the music is louder, basey-er, and more intense, the graphics are more graphics than you could graphic ever even. Its not a very subtle or nuanced game, you can tell what you'll get just by watching the trailer, a trait not common for gaming. You either like what you see or you don't. The biggest downside is that it is a UE game and is therefore kind of unstable and weird. Its not that bad compared to other games on the engine, but my friend crashed during his first hour of play and I DCed randomly. The game runs well framerate wise on my busted up old graphics card so performance isn't a concern unless you play on a toaster oven. The multiplayer is dead so if you value that, you might have to swindle some friends into buying it with you. Otherwise the campaign bots are surprisingly good for the racing (not so much the combat arenas.) The game has gone on sale for like 90% off and is absolutely worth it for the nothing you'd pay for it then.

Головокружительная гонка

Mario Kart on steroids... Need I say more. For $30 it's better priced than Mario Kart World.

Super fun and very well optimized! Way more fun than F-Zero GX etc. HDR was washed out at first, Unreal HDR fix from the steamcommunity fixed it easily. Looks amazing in both HDR and SDR. The game runs at 45 fps on my old 3550H Vega 8 on low settings, and runs at 180 to 240 FPS on my 3060 with all settings maxxed out. Looks fantastic both ways. Absolutely get this, this is the most fun I've had in any racing game in a long time.