Review: GRIP - An Exciting But Often Twitchy Combat Racer

Rolling in the Cage.

While the ‘golden age’ of the Nintendo 64 and the original PlayStation gave us the template for intense racing sims and arcade speedsters, it also blessed us with a slew of high-speed titles with a penchant for combat. For every Gran Turismo and Ridge Racer there was a Mario Kart 64, a WipEout and a Speed Freaks ready to throw blue shells and fire missiles with wanton abandon.

It’s a genre that’s struggled to maintain a proper revival outside of Mario Kart series - see the commercial failure of the superb Blur and Split-Second for proof of that - but that hasn’t stopped Canadian developer Caged Element from making its own bid to reunite face-melting speeds and explosive battles for a new era with GRIP. Years removed from a successful crowdfunding campaign, can this plucky little racer take enough inspiration from the past while offering something genuinely new on Switch?

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