GRIP: Combat Racing Review
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2018
- My review of GRIP: Combat Racing for the PC (also available on PS4, Xbox One, and Switch). GRIP is the spiritual successor to Rollcage. A free review copy was provided by the publisher.
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#GRIP #GRIPCombatRacing#Rollcage - Ігри
We need a blur sequel. Blur was the best combat racing game I have ever played. So so so underrated...
There was a planned sequal, there is some footage of it but it's as barren as a pre-alpha game (Just an Audi R8 driving arround, no powerups or anthing)
Why it was cancelled? No idea, but it will never be made I am afraid.
Don't you mean split seconds. That was legit
Blur wasn't that fun I remembered. Split Second on the other was a best of a game. But this Rollcage spiritual sequal...is simply the best, not one game comes close to this!!
That means you’ve never played lego racer. It’s old but so damn good
Has anybody played JackX Combat Racing?
I've never played Rollcage but I absolutely love GRIP. It's one of the most intense racing games I've played since F-Zero GX.
True but still has problems whats a shame tbh
how the campaign has the biggest fu ai and blows you up spins you backwards and the the tracks are fucking confusing and dont get me started on the random invisible wall the online multiplayer system us shattered it gives you the complete opposite item of what you need despite your place even if you have completely perfect race or somehow survive all the attacks you can still have the win stolen from you and last but least ITS CALLED GRIP WTF DO SLIDE MORE THAN A DOG ON ICE ON EVERY TRACK!!!
Have you played Redout?
As an F-Zero and WipEout fan, I can wholeheartedly recommend it!
Get rollcage. It's much better. Grip feels tried. But failed
I just realize if you flip a car like that, the wheels has to go full reverse roll in order to keep the car forward
Shhhhhhh. The illusion is breaking!
I'm pretty sure that roll cage did that. It was confusing as hell when I first started playing it!
not necessarily ... if you construct your vehicle with secondary gears that shift and adjust with the transmission it is possible. Especially with future technologies that its presented here
Sometumes you flip from floor to ceiling in which case the direcrion of the wheels would stay the same.
Yeap, it is totally doable with current tech, it requires gearbox made for this and automatic switching of direction in order to not have jump. With electric engine it would be even easier.
7:27 "Ready player one"
Both Rollcage 1 & 2 were also on PC (playing it in HD before it was even possible on consoles, with GPU acceleration) and there's more - the original dev made an updated versions you can download for free. Rollcage Redux and Rollcage Extreme. Save dev that who also made Grip.
Oh didnt even know that those were on pc... Gotta check that out!
you're my hero, i was addicted to it back in the day installing now
Wow. Was just thinking I wish I could just buy the originals in hd on steam instead of this poorly done sequel, and here you are. Thanks!
6 tracks? lol dude there are 17 unique tracks, even before counting stuff like reverse tracks. I liked Rollcage as well, but I'm pretty sure people just have some nostalgia goggles on here.
They're probably wishing they never gave him a free copy of the game to review.
There is 22 tracks, not 6 ??
@@soap_off I think you might be counting reverse tracks too as they are just scattered into the track selection also. I've counted 19 unique tracks and there are five deathmatch type arenas which need to count for something. This is on the assumption also that all tracks are visible in single player mode and don't require unlocking which I doubt it, seeing they would at least be visible with a LOCKED stamp on them, just as the items have. It's an awesome game, and I'd only be giving it higher praise if I had an X model XBOX or at the least playing on a ps4 (framerate looks rocks solid) Original xbox on the other had can seem pretty rough at times.
Absolutely. Not to mention Arenas. Plus more unique tracks are still being added for free by the devs.
I don't understand why he would say there is only 6 tracks. I also don't know if I can take the reviewer seriously when he doesn't know to push the boost button. Did it bother anyone else watching this video that the boost gauge was pegged the whole time?
i think this review is a little too much of a comparison than a standalone review. But Im not mad since you mentioned you're super biased towards rollcage. I think GRIP is good as a standalone racer, but quite a different vision compared to rollcage
What's different about the "vision" exactly?
I mean i get what your saying, but you cant not compare this game to rollcage, bcs its the same base game, it was supposed to be a sucessor, basicly a copy of the original, its the same as you review watch dogs in general without mentioning gta...or super tux vs super mario.
I didn't see any of the post-early access tracks in your video, and you claim that there are only 6 tracks of note. I'm not sure how to interpret that.
There are 4 different planets in Grip with similar themes, and each planet has 4-5 completely unique tracks, reverse versions (which are not identical to the forward version) aside.
Damn your pumping out videos in a furious pace. All the power to you!
(8:19) Yes, the XBox and PS versions have 4-player splitscreen support. 👍
Why doesn't the switch have 4 player split screen?
@@PlaidPuns Simply put, the Switch isn't strong enough. It has splitscreen for 2 max as a result.
It's true that Fast RMX has splitscreen for 4. But I reason, that's a Switch exclusive, so it's has been tailored for that specific hardware.
Never the less, I think GRIP is more complex than Fast RMX, being a new game and all that.
#splitscreenisnotdead
Correct. We're still here. 😁
I'm new to gaming do u mean four players can play offline together?
Finding shortcuts was your favourite memory of roll cage but mine was the platform/puzzle/"carcore" mode, im glad to see its return. You said some tracks seem "broken" but its because theyre supposed to be played a specific.
WTF was that bullshit with original rollcage having some FBS soundtrack? Rollcage was the game that got me to drumnbass music with it's killer soundtrack and imho from what I've heard on YT, Grip doesn't seem to take it's soundtrack lightly.
Basically in the whole video there are very few valid criticisms of Grip - the ruberbanding and lack of shortcuts, if that is even the case. Many routes in RC worked just like what this guy describes in Grip.
I had some issues with the game just after launch myself, and barely played it, but have since learnt a lot of stuff that isn't well explained in-game, like the built-in boost, which helps a lot. And after the last update with the hovervehicles and new tracks and more music, the game is even better, and I honestly think it matches and even surpasses the old ollcage in many respects. Also, Rollcage 2 atleast had a reset function, that I had to use a lot when I played it, was easy to get stuck there as well.
I get that this is your opinion of the game, and it might be a bit outdated now, but anyone who's interested in the game should view other reviews as well before making a decision.
If the wheels are moving forward and the car flips wouldn't the wheels now be going backwards?
no
True😅
You are missing the point of the game
1:32 they fill up that green bar on the bottom right that is always full and blinking (indicating you should use it) in most your shots. It's your boost meter. You use it by pressing Y on gamepad controls.
One of the best games I've played in the last few years. Didn't think a great deal of Rollcage apart from the game looking cool. This game really comes together the more you play it. After a few hours of play everything starts to feel right and you'll wonder why a game like this hasn't come sooner. Focussing just on its weapon based racing, it certainly gets a 9/10 in my book. It's as good as Wipeout Omega, yet so different I could jump from one to the other and feel like im going from one genre to another.
Never even heard of rollcage until now, but what I did enjoy was F-Zero GX on GameCube and Mototstorm on PS3. This looks like a combination of the 2 and is right up my alley.
Hopefully it gets supported with more content, because what few environments they have are stunning, even more so than the Wipeout Omega Collection's.
there are more than 6 tracks, around 20 in 4 planets
ha your gonna be disappointed dont play grip
@@brianhemenway5191
Been playing it for over a year now. Probably my favourite modern sci-fi racer. Most content, best vehicle/environment design, and none of that air drift garbage that most anti-grav racers have.
Only complaint is that opponents are basically brick walls. If one crashes ahead of you, and you make contact, that's the end of it.
The game trailer says it has "22 deadly tracks"
Was just about to buy it due to same sort of memories, playing with friends when it came out. Wont waste my money now though, even though its only 1.39€ on cd keys at the moment... Thanks for the review dude. Good to know there are people with similar memories. Good luck
Comparing this game to Rollcage is the same problem reviewers have with Anti-Grav racers and Wipeout.
Because we're so stuck on these old games, developers are still trying to capture that glory rather than working on new design.
Still Grip looks a lot better than that Rollcage footage, and it probably sold me more on Grip
hmmm...random question...are there any tournament modes for local multiplayer? I mean like the cup races for Crash team racing where you do a track and get points for that...later on all the points will be counted...
Small problem, your not using the boost in your cars. You constatly have it maxed out, no wonder you having trouble winning.
Thanks for the honest review. Was going to buy but don't know how I feel now. I will engage with the community regarding your main issues with the game and see if anything has been sorted before making the decision to purchase or pass.
do not buy
That Nascar dig was pretty brutal.
but true
@@robrider838 Yes, but no. NASCAR is shit, but not because it's oval racing.
The thing with oval racing is that what makes it interesting is the strategy, the skill and the concentration required to not bin it (which is very easy), especially if you're fighting someone else. This obviously doesn't translate at all to an arcade pew pew game.
All honestly, im happy that i supported it in Early Access because the outcome of the game is more than i could expected and it doesnt look any bad at all.
With the right tricks in maybe some future updates we might see those destructible objects in a return and Grip simply always plays best in a multiplayer environment - exactly like Rollcage. I havent played it yet after release, but in the early stages it did look very promising to also have a step maybe into active esports, due to all the "open world" changes, that have a good potential of requiring mastered driving skills.
At the end i rather do support all these old brilliant ideas in a rework, than buying some generic AAA Titles that are too scared to try something "new" or reworking something that exists but havent been done in modern games.
Yup this looks so damn good, if i just had money for new pc now! We truly need to help out these smaller awesome developers, even when game isnt perfect
Pc version is top notch, going at blistering speed, the scenery when you hit a rock and get flipped into the air, breath taking, absolutely gorgeous, the developers made a beautiful version of Rollcage, Grip is delicous, I'm delighted to have bought it, music is awesome, its tough as nails but you do eventually win those tough matches, it all comes down to determination and grit. Practice practice practice, you will get the hang of the tracks and the best places to speed up. I need more people online to play against on steam
There are around 20 tracks.
There are probably the best soundtracks with Payday 2 while you are playing.
The graphics at Epic level are pretty much very satisfying.
Most of the tracks are very fun to drive once you figured out the way to race them properly.
You get a new car every 2 levels which take about 5 mins at the beginning and 20 mins in the end.
(Bad point is that there are not enough good looking cars in my opinion while in rollcage, everytime you had a new car it was even sexier than the previous one).
The attacks//jumps//boost//reset systems are well done.
(I'm missing some rollcage stage 2 attacks tho)
Ai level is more than fair, you can only finish the game if you drive very well.
It's easier in the early part of the campaign yeah, but you are supposed to learn the tracks accordingly so it's well made.
The most important part is the multiplayer and car customisation in my opinion for a game like this.
The multiplayer is stable, it's pretty easy to find a match, there are not a lot of lobbies but since it's 10-players lobbies, it's pretty easy to find one with already 6 players or so.
Car customisation really needs improvement though, you can have all the colors (not like Rocket League), you have an insane amount of different tyres, some different rims.
The bad part is for the decals, there are not many and mostly shit ones.
There is only 4 or 5 different color reparts for each car which is not enough.
Yeah I agree with the "open world" argument "you find yourself flying around pretty much often" BUT that's the case if you drive like shit.
Grip isn't the kind of games where you press the throttle during the whole lap, most of the hard tracks require throttle and braking managment if you want to make good laps.
So it's easy to criticize a game when you suck at it.
"Pokemon campaign's is hard, when I attack a fire pokemon with a plant attack, it doesn't die"...
You got it
I used to play Rollcage on the PC. It's probably one of the earliest games to feature the infamous motion-blur that was present in later 6th-gen games to present day.
I forgive your bias. It’s a trait I share when talking about certain games. Your review is balanced non the less. Subbed.
I play it on xbox because I haven't got a play station to play wipeout on
And there are about 22 different tracks with a few night and reverse versions and a mirrored mode but I do agree the tracks do need some barriers
The addition of anti-grav vehicles is the best thing could happen to this game. I tried it when it was released on GP and meh! Not bad, not good enough to keep me interested. But with th new vehicles, it is the best F-Zero clone out there, better than Redout.
You can't be too hard on games like this. If we are to get another true, combat racer again, we cannot be too critical of the pioneers.
yes i can grip sucks
We can and we should. If gamedev was a reasonable industry this game would just be
fixed because it has a solid foundation and all the worst problems it has are exactly the
kinds of problems that are fixable after release without huge headaches like having to
re-record voice actors or redoing mocap.
Not criticizing a genre will only attract people that aren't striving for excellence.
Also, as Rollcage came out in '99, I think it's hardly apt to call the developers of
Grip "pioneers". They wanted to recreate a 20 year old game and in part, they
succeeded. That is an accomplishment, but definitely not breaking new ground.
Have you tried using the boost? You know the green bar that is flashing on top of your speedometer.
Me and my Friends would play roll-cage on pc for hours so much nostalgia
Crazy question... Can you still unlock soccer mode? I unlocked that on Rollcage 2 on pc...
4:49 That oval circuit is in Rollcage. You unlock it at the end. I used to st the game to 50 laps or however high it went and just raced it endlessly. Was good fun
I think what he meant is that they don't do much. With the rubber banding in this game you can unload a full tank of boost and still have competitors keep up or even pass you without using a turbo powerup.
Ok, here's a little response to the above review. some valid criticisms, and some very poor ones. I otherwise liked your review, though it could do with the reviewer not speaking in such a monotone the whole way through. it gets extraordinarily dull.
a) there aren't 6 tracks: there are 19, excluding the reverse and night versions. and every track can be mirrored. it wasn't hard to count, I only had to open up the game...
b) the 'Carkour" mode that he disparages so greatly is a tribute to Trackmania and its crazy, largely user-generated tracks where the challenge is often just to get to the finish. the one with the arrows pointing forwards where you're actually supposed to go backwards is a direct reference to the (dev and user) designers of trackmania who would often deliberately sign the racer the wrong way. if you had done a little research on where that mode is coming from, you would understand why it is the way it is instead of becoming so easily confused and frustrated with it.
c) Rubberbanding isn't as bad as he claims.
d) you didn't like the arena mode because you figured out you could win easily by destroying barrels rather than attacking the other drivers and decided to do that instead of playing the mode the way it is supposed to? I agree that having things that way is a problem, but if you're not even going to bother trying to do something the way the developers expect you to do because you figured out how to exploit the system, it is not really fair of you to then turn around and say it is too easy, regardless of whether it is or not if you're playing the 'normal' way.
e) an hour to unlock each new vehicle? I got 8 in about 2-3 hours.
f) you claim that it doesn't compare to rollcage because the developers made changes which do not work. which changes are those? you did not specify any, so have you even played rollcage since 2001? I certainly haven't. if you're going to compare two games in a review, you should make sure you are familiar with both of them so that you are capable of making a fair comparison. correct me if I'm off-base and you did play it, but as things stand you just come off as someone whose vision is clouded by nostalgia. and no, watching youtube videos about it made by someone else does not count.
for the record, I am not massively enamoured by the game either, though it is quite fun. I would give it 3 to 3.5 on 5, but it's 40 dollars, it's an independent dev team and it's a new(ish) IP in a genre that doesn't get enough attention. support original stuff.
(a) As I said in the video, a lot of those tracks are incredibly similar. A few tweaks to an existing environment doesn't really make something a new track in my book.
(b) I've played Trackmania and Carkour is garbage by comparison. I don't care if it's a tribute. Doesn't change the fact that it's bad. And I don't tend to do in-depth research on the development history for side modes before commenting on them. It's not like that makes it more fun.
(c) It is.
(d) You hit the barrels by accident half the time. It's hardly a high level exploit. I'm not breaking the game. How would I even know what the developers intend me to do or what is "normal?"
(e) It slows down as you hit the higher levels which is why I said "on average."
(f) As I said in the video, I have played Rollcage recently and I do describe the changes (more open courses being the main one).
Totally valid answer. I had the exact same thought while watching the video.
Carkour a tribute to Trackmania? What? I thought it was just supposed to be GRIP's version of Rollcage Stage 2's Scramble Mode.
have you played OnRush? i feel like you might like it
as a child i played A LOT to roll cage, and i really love Grip, I find it faster and less "random", yea it's different, and I'm a bit sad about the lack of tricky secret ways... But I love it !
I played the original roll cage back in the day and just discovered GRIP as I'm writing this review. It got me thinking: Man this game looks just like rollcage. So I looked up some reviews and turns out that's pretty much what it is. I listened to your review and it turns out the game is on sell for 8 bucks. Since I had 8 bucks just chilling in my PSN credit I decided to try it out. I'll let you know of what I think lol
Why is his Rollcage vids so pixilated? Mine in 2000 were awesome! My Nvidia riva tnt2 powered through Rollcage state 2 with its awesome 32mb ram
Good review, covers all the important stuff and well-written. You deserve more views.
Can't agree, but props to you for saying that you're potentially biased. GRIP is the most intense arcade racing game I've played. And combat is really fun while racing. I've also played RC but to be honest I enjoy this one more.
I was follonwing this game since they announced it years ago, will buy it when I'll have money.
But there is a lot of good futuristic racing games that were released recently, especially the EXCELLENT Ballistic NG, a game recreating Wipeout 3, but I acutally find it even more enjoyable to play !
Few months ago I started to play ZeroCar, it's actually in Early Access for 7$ (I think ?) and it's made by someone who worked on Dirt 3 and Dirt Rally, and it's really nice to play for an Alpha version !
Anyway, even if GRIP isn't perfect, it deserve to get support from the players
Distance (Nitronic rush successor) released recently as well
@@1fareast14 distance is not like grip even they look similar, distance have no phisics while driving it's very plasticy feel, and it's about the adventure and visuals, while grip is hard core phisics racing
Ballisticng is definetly amazing! And yes we need to support these small developers, gonna buy this when i have pc to run it
UA-cam reccomended this, i moved my cursor on thumbnail and saw a huge car and IMMEDIATELY REMEMBERED ROLLCAGE
When I first loaded up GRIP, and it reminded me of Rollcage... It was such a nostalgia blast.
Its on sale 16 quid ,i liked the review
All right, I actually have both rc1 and rc2 but I can't play them on my pc no matter what I do. The game runs fine, all the graphics are OK and so on but the game is just too fast no matter what I do. I tried clocking down my I7 to 1 GHz (min state) but even then it is so fast that there is no time to react. Any solutions?
Uh... what... games should not be tied to CPU clock anymore... by the mid 90s most PC games weren't. It sounds like a different thing is causing it to me.
@@DragonGrafx-16 Not really. I took the gtx 970 from the main pc and installed it on a very old pc with pcie and a 3 GHz a64. The game ran fine.
Only what I miss is an destructive environment like in Rollcage 1 and 2.
I don't know why they cut it out after the Trailers. :(
I also played Rollcage, but this game somehow doesn't work on i5 11400 f and Radeon 6600. :/
I loved playing Rollcage on PC way back when.
I spent a bunch of time with Grip the last couple of days and it actually kind of saddens me.
There's a good foundation here, but it feels like the game wasn't quite finished. Game modes
not being properly explained, jagged geometry in the middle of a course without signposting
and signposted "jumps" crashing you directly into the walls are decidedly unfun but the weird
rubber-banding where especially in the elimination game mode CPU players are literally pushed
before you when you're going max speed is what really breaks this for me.
I spent literally three hours on a single race in campaign tier five because of that crap. And I swear,
the steering just swerves into random directions sometimes, which I think is some assistance feature
you can't switch off that's bugging out.
Unlike you, I'm really enjoying the music selection tho. Hospital was a good choice of label there,
but I'm not sure why there's only music from just one label. One would think this would be an
obvious place to start iterating with DLC and also add some worthwhile features while you're
at it - Jump Up season with Mozey and Upgrade introducing replays and fast race restarts,
that kinda thing…
But truth be told, I'm kind of baffled that they didn't bring back the old soundtrack as bonus.
Licensing on music as old as that has got to be way cheaper than current stuff…
ahh rollcage, i played that everyday when i was kid.
I think before Rollcage released in 1999, there's another game combat racing like this, in 1998. Dethkarz. From Melbourne House.
All those years ago my mate and I would spent hours and hours with Rollcage. That lasted a good few years. As of now we have been playing GRIP for a few years now and then, so we can very much objectively compare the two. GRIP is fun but it falls behind in EVERYTHING!... Rollcage is the superior game by far.....I mean...BY FAAAAR!...the issues you mentioned in the video are just the tip of the iceberg...they give so much more options in GRIP but none of them succeed in making the game more enjoyable than RC. All they had to do was NOT make you feel like your car is made of sugar and bouncy. If I hit turbo power up behind the opponent I want to see them flying off the screen due to my hitting them, if the opponent does the same, vice versa. I want to be able to defeat anyone if I do a clean race (no collisions, no weapon damage received). I want weapons that make a difference, not missing the target they are locked on to 75% of the time. I don't want to find myself in the last position just because I had to reset mid flight after being in the LEAD with a 10 second advantage!!!! And I want to stop hitting invisible walls in the middle of an open road...When a car is standing still as I am approaching I want him blown off after I make impact...NOT come to a sudden stop myself....physics, please!...
There used to be a remote control car called Rebound back in the 90's that looked just like these cars, basically the controls just got flipped every time the car did.
Wait, why couldn't they have put back end weapons like in Jak X combat racing? That way you can block incoming missles or get that opponent who is direclty behind you. Such an obvious oversight.
I bought the game grip because I was a giant fan of Jack x combat racing and the intense speeds. I hope the developers are like no mans sky and add some cool updates. New planets new tracks and some vehicle upgrades. IMAGINE DRIVING DOWN AROUND THE INSIDE OF A VOLCANO
The Norvos arena track's center is just like that.
I got some deep rollcage and dodgem arena feels now!
did you just debunk the plot of Ready Player One in 5 seconds at 7:16
GRIP is one of the best playstation games I've ever played. The gameplay is fast and challenging, there's a lot of customization for your car, the graphics are outstanding, and it's just so much fun to play. No game is perfect, so if I had one complaint about GRIP it'd be that the weapons screen actions could be a little more explosive, but I'm nitpicking. If you don't like this game, then you're insane because it's one of the best racers I've played in a long time.
GRIP reminds me a lot of XG2 for the N64. I see people comparing it a lot to Wipeout and F-Zero, but I mostly see more similarities with the Extreme G series, particularly XG2 and XGRA.
You want Rollcage 3? Check out a game called Firebugs on PS1. Same Dev as Rollcage, same engine, same concept. Just with a more cartoony aesthetic, and not quite as good. Fun game though.
Hmm. I remember playing a game that looked quite a bit like the Rollcage game, but a bit better grafics and with bikes. It was a LONG time ago... Anyone can help me find it?
I remember the powerups being modules that hover around your vehicle after you pick them up, some powerups having tiers (the missile launcher has more missilese at higher tiers for example), the shield powerup deploying 'legs' from the module over the vehicle that projects a barrier around you, and there being a native weapon to the vehicles that can be charged.
Sounds like an Extreme-G game to me... but the only one worth playing is the first one on N64.
@@DragonGrafx-16 looking it up, it looks like extreme G 2 might be it. It even has that funny bike selection screen, as well as that funny losing animation that I forgot about until I've seen it. Thanks.
Tricky shortcuts you enjoyed doing are actually hurting long-term gameplay and competitiveness compared to different routes this game have. GRIP had one notable route (the letterbox) like that, but it got closed due to it being too OP, and becoming a meta route everyone would take by default. And meta's are wrong in a combat racing game.
The game has it's more or less serious problems, but that still not gonna help the fact you didn't have a fair share of experience with this game as some of your facts you stated are just totally inaccurate and puts the game in a worse color than it actually is.
You still decided to put on your nostalgia goggles and always refer back to Rollcage, and how good was that. Despite being a spiritual successor, GRIP is it's own IP. Still, nearly everything RC had right, this game also got and just elevated even further. You didn't bother discovering and showing those features tho.
This review is just as bad and inaccurate as it gets. A downvote for that.
Interesting concept considering if you flip upside down you'll tires will be going in reverse and the same as if you jump n start riding on the ceiling
Still waiting more for these PS1 games remakes! ♥
I loved Rollcage! I had the PC version.. mainly I played it cause I listened to the soundtrack, it was part of the game.. you could also change the soundtrack tunes to different mp3-tunes which was cool :D
You can do the same legit in GRIP's PC version too. There is an inbuilt jukebox.
It's like Motostorm,Mario kart,F-Zero and Teisted metal combined it's awesome.
i playd role cage 2 mostly on ps1 me and my bruder and got grip on sale for 5 dolars at that price is greyt been very picky about my resing gams not having a good enf or motor storm game
I can't agree with this review. I spent dozens of hours playing both rollcage games as a kid and I'm just as addicted to GRIP if not even more! Many of the harder tracks are incredibly technical and require a lot of focus to navigate quickly, every car feels unique and is fun to drive, the sound design/soundtrack is excellent and the arena deathmatch mode is tons of fun. I bought this game on ps4 and was impressed by how much you can tweak your steering feel: Deadzone, sensitivity, and speed can all be adjusted to a degree that surpasses many FPS games, especially on console. If you feel like the cars in this game are a bit of a handful I have two words of advice: practice your throttle control and TWEAK YOUR STEERING! Its amazing how much of an impact these two factors can have in thus game when you start to really learn the tracks and find a steering feel that suits you
wait if the cars flip that would make the wheels spin in the opposite direction to which they were going :3
I’ve found that games I absolutely loved as a kid and put many hours of enjoyment into aren’t nearly as fun if at all when I pick it up as an adult.
Reminds me of the extreme g racing game from back then on ps2
This game is so much fun with a mate and splitscreen.
Gotta say it's one of the best game reviews I have ever seen, mate! Great work. I like how objective and impartial you sound while still admitting the publisher handed you a copy of the game for the review. INTP mode ON
I will be playing this to the jak x soundtrack
this reminds me of Roll cage in PS1 but a bit biased if you ask me. This is like an Upgraded Roll Cage with added features but with issues
It's been a while since I've listened and enjoyed a review this much.
i didint even know rollcage had two different sountracks :-o never heard of fat boy slim in rollcage. from what i hear here in video grip sounds similar to my version of rollcage ost :)
i never owned wipeout, but me and my bro bought an old used modded ps one off trade and exchange newspaper listing back in the day and one of the black market games it came with was rollcage, we played the shit out of that game. it was awesome. hope grip is released on pc, with splitscreeen for those good old days :)
it does! 4 player splitscreen on pc! awesome.
Loved this game!!! for all the mentioned reasons...
WHAT how grip absolutely sucks
Really good review. I'm playing it at the moment, and to be honest, I feel the exact same as you. Believe it or not, there are actually a couple of other problems that really infuriate me and limit my motivation to continue. For starters, the duels are by far the worst, not only because of the need to drive perfectly as you said, but also because every one of them so far has lasted WAY too long, and they just flat out aren't enjoyable. Furthermore, the sheer amount of times I've had a homing rocket instantly fly into the ground, wall or other collidable object due to the angle or position of my vehicle is utterly absurd. It feels like I've fired more rockets into the ground than at actual opponents. Also, I swear the swarm missile lock-on flat out doesn't work sometimes, due to the amount of times it misses completely even after getting a lock-on. The score-attack race mode is great except for one crippling flaw (outside of the flaws you mentioned). They still allow you to get passive items like boosts, shields etc, but these don't give you any points when used. This means that your ability to earn points will significantly depend on luck, because I have had multiple instances where I want to get an item to attack my opponent with, but four or five times in a row I simply won't get one. I've had to retry these events so many times because of this, and it's infuriating.
Personally, I really liked the battle mode. Yes, I admit it is very easy, but that's probably what made it so fun and made me feel so powerful. It also helps that the track aesthetic and weather effects in the majority of cases is excellent, the cars look awesome and the sense of speed is one of the best I've experienced. The XP system is kind of redundant, as you don't actually earn anything game-changing with each level. They probably could of just had a list of rewards you earn for completing each tournament or tier instead. As for the soundtrack, I personally find it aggresively unremarkable, not because of genre, but rather because every track feels so repetitive and similar, without any distinct melodies, synths or lyrics. At least the sound effects are pretty solid.
In the end, I would love to see a sequel, becuase there is so much good here that is mainly hampered by strange design choices that shouldn't be too difficult to iron out. Hell, I'm sure some of these issues could be fixed with a basic patch (like the available item pickups in score-attack and the spawn location of homing rockets when firing).
Rob baker is a legend, long live rollcage.
I am disappointed with this review. It’s an excellent game in my opinion. Love the music, gameplay, tracks. The game fulfills rollcage nostalgia and offers an upgrade in every category. Cheers!
I agree with you, having just purchased this. I think it is great.
definitely getting on a ps4 sale
i agree with you on most of the points you mentioned, and i still think this is an awesome game, and the tracks on it are very creative, but they should have included a destructible objects in them too to truly interact with the tracks, but honestly i feel they did a great job in this game, and all the negative points about this game, i feel its because its a small team was making it couldn't finish many things
Im one of the early backers and i know they tried having more and better destructable objects in the game. In much older versions there is a building on top of a mountain in the dessert map (at that time there was only one of those). But it seems they ran into performance issues. I agree, i think the problem was manpower a.k.a. lacking funds.
Anyone played this with a g29 or other wheel on ps4?
you can turn off ruberbanding and putting in as much oponents as your system can handle is optimal way to play this imho
arena is mainly to goof around with friends
there is button that puts you back on track, there was one in rollcage too, but here its much more important, you get used to it
there are no shortcuts, but different routes are optimal for different types of cars
for me bigest minus about game is it feels kinda sterile, i think that a lot could be improved with better sound desing, i can remeber sounds menu did in original rolcage, here its kinda meh.
carkour looks more like mod, they didnt even bother with textures...
i agree that custom cosmetics are usleses becouse nobody sees them, but i still spend time pimpin each and every car, maybe if they shown first three cars after match or something like that..
(i play on ps4 so my expirience may be different)
They need to zoom the camera out, the car is taking way to much screen space.
There are camera options while you are driving
Regarding the Rubberbanding, this seems exactly like what I'm experiencing in The Crew 2, it is horrendous in that game, my car could be upgraded to twice as much as the recommended level and like he said I could be in 1st place speeding down a straight and then I would look at the mini map and I would see them just gaining on me. Great Review tho. :)
Actually the rubberbanding issue was addressed to by now, so it isn't as aggressive as it was on release. They keep on tweaking and upgrading the game still.
Looks fun and it's on game pass so I'll definitely check it out.
Battle arena mode made me Remember about vigilante
Omg Vigilante yes! I remember, that game was hours and days of non stop fun in the 70s gameplay world!
Great
i got it in early accses and i object to your score, i agree with everything you say but giving it such a low score is very strange i would give it a 7 out of ten its a well built game from a small dev thats not quite there yet n trems of being rock solid the cars still feel wobbly.
but your score dispite evrything you say is basicly saying its rubbish and it most definitly is not that.
Dislike for the music. You DEFINITELY don't get DnB.
I mean, yeah, Krakota isn't Fatboy Slim, but something tells me Noisia in the soundtrack wouldn't've changed your opinion.
damn i need a new extreme g
Anyone remember Crash n Burn on the 3DO???? Man I miss that game
This is my sort of game.. Just hoping beyond hope that the switch port is ok.
i clicked bc it look s like rollcage:] still use the soundtrack it is great as well :))
Why he no boosti
Is there fpv?