GRITS Racing Reviews

If you like top down racers this one is interesting. The artwork is very nicely done and the controls worked well.

Very enjoyable, chaotic party game, excellent with a group of friends. GRITS Racing is a top-down racing party game with physics that are more realistic than anybody ever asked for. I can attest that the cars handle like real cars. It's made as a couch game to play with your friends, but AI's were recently added so you can play singleplayer too. From what I hear, it's got tire friction, center of gravity, steering mechanisms etc. modeled after real cars. And the wheels are individually modeled, so they can come off when you wreck. Wrecked cars are persistent, and you have to run to the truck to get a new car if you abandon yours. Your racer is protected by a Tesla Shield, so if you need to abandon your car to get a new one, other cars on the track will bounce off your shield! The details are what makes it so fun, such as being able to knock over a pile of tires. The skid marks look great, too. It is a party game, so of course it's got modifiers that players get to turn on and off each round that mess with the mechanics of the game. You got Tesla Shields where the racer gets knocked around instead of the car that hit them, bigger tires, dragster chutes and more.

It's already pretty fun and has a lot of potential to be even better. AI needs a lot of work tho. A solid game for the price, and definitely unique.

Something goofy and a bit different in the world of top-down racers. GRITS takes the classic 2D top-down racing concept and mixes it up a fair bit with all the tasty features elaborated on in the extended game description: [b]Physics[/b] Individually simulated wheels mean vehicle damage gets 'functionally interesting' [b]Drivers[/b] Run to your car... or to the team truck for a new one if you broke the original - your tesla shield makes pedestrian collisions far more painful for the offending vehicle! [b]Wodifiers[/b] Add silly extras each round, like squishy tyres which bend awkwardly against walls, or tractor wheels which turn a bit differently (or both for when you want monster truck tyres on your oldschool racing cigars) [b]Parties[/b] Not only does it support 8 players, but the dev was [strike]mad[/strike] [i]kind[/i] enough to add rotating UI elements for those of us who take it to a tabletop screen - it doesn't matter which side of the table you play from because every player gets to pick what side they are facing when they punch in! (the dev actively engages on the forum, and takes on board even these edge case suggestions if they seem viable) A little light on track content at time of review (Early Access after all), and I know some of the graphics are in the process of being tinkered with for better usability, but this is a fun title which deserves the support of all the old Slicks'n'Slides fans after something which isn't just trying to recreate the older games with prettier graphics again.