Grip: Combat Racing

FUTURISTIC RACER SERVES UP FUGLY BUT FUN METALLIC MAYHEM.

- Dave Meikleham

Gravity is such a pain. Sure, the physics force may have made that Newton chap famous, but in day-to-day life it often sucks. Pushing a pram uphill. Dropping an expensive vase. Forgetting to stick your handbrake on, then slowly careening into the car behind you on a gentle incline. Screw you, gravity. Thankfully, the G word is not something you have to worry about in this extreme sci-fi racer.

GRIP is certainly an apt name. The futuristic speed buggies on display are as happy racing on ceilings and curving walls as they are merrily bundling over flat terrain. With each racer seemingly stuck to every surface by some sort of space glue, Caged Element throws twisting, vertically stacked courses in your direction at every turn. Whether pulling off loopthe-loops above the seedy streets of Orbital Prime’s District 404, or causing mini sandstorms with your monster truck-style wheels on the aggressive desert slopes of Jahtra, gravity is a dirty word in GRIP’s universe.

Wrecking crew