GripShift

GAME » on September 12, 2005

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Speed your way through insane levels in this nitrous fueled, star collecting, driving action game!

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Overview

Gripshift, although lacking a story, throws you into a wacky world filled with doodads, weapons, racing and plenty of frustration. Pressing start and hitting 'Restart Level' will become an instinct. The game has a slew of unlockables and levels to experience but with only a few cars and characters to accompany them. The goal, if there really is one, is to collect all of the credits in the game to achieve the 100% completion mark (SEE: Credits / Unlockables section). Use the doodads (rocks, trees, etc) to your advantage to make better angled jumps with a mix of boost to cut your times and complete your objectives! Visit the 'PLATFORM SPECIFIC CONTENT' section of this page to view content that each version of Gripshift has for you to experience.

Track Themes

All of the tracks and theirs surroundings (doodads) in the game are based off of four themes. The theme names are self explanatory.

- Jungle - Desert - Ice - Horror

Credits

Brief description of the credits system in Gripshift: In total, there are 2000 credits in Gripshift. There are milestones for achieved credits that upon reaching said milestone, unlockables will become available (SEE: below). Credits can be earned by doing various objectives. During race missions, one can earn credits by collecting bronze, silver or gold amounts stars (but still winning) or by getting a bronze, silver or gold time on the track. During challenge tracks, credits can be earned by grabbing the Gripshift icon (and completing the level after getting the icon), collecting the bronze, silver or gold amount of stars (and finishing the track) or by getting a bronze, silver or gold time on the track.

Unlockables

Unlockables range from new characters, cars, car decals, wheels for your cars and music. Each unlockable is obtained by reaching a certain credit milestone. (To find out what cars, car decals, wheels, characters and music are available in the game, continue reading below in their respected sections.)

Characters / Drivers

Character/Driver models do not effect the performance of the cars.

- Sasse - Bud - Dante - Stacey - Tommy Battle - Fly

Car Skins

The cars color is able to be changed between 25 colors across the rainbow while a decal is equipped or not. If a decal is on, part of its color will change as well. BUT, with some decals equipped, the user will be unable to change the body color due to the button being greyed out. Car skins do not effect the performance of the cars.

- Basic (Plain paint job with no skin.)

- USA - Union Jack (British Flag) - Syn (Hood flames) - Racer (White race stripe) - Flames (Flames covering car) - Tribal (Tribal pattern) - Bling (Dollar signs litter the car) - Sidhe (Race stripes and the sidhe logo/mascot on the car._ - N2 Fern (Stylish design, similar to leafs on the rear end.) - Camouflage - Neon (Vibrant line pattern, TRON-esque.) - Hazard (Dukes of...) - Moo (Cow spots) - Spider (spiderweb design) - Taxi (Chekered design) - Italian - Spanish - German - French - Japan

Wheels

Wheels do not in any way effect the performance of the cars.

- 2Endos - Astrals - Hammers - Arachnids - Args - Fangs - Hydras - Spinners - Hovers (Tires flipped horizontally with a blue aura glowing below them. Gives you the sense that your car is floating.)

Hood Decals

Hood Decals do not effect the performance of the cars.

- No decal - Sharky - Star - Cat - Insane (Pumpkin) - Bombs - Paw - Hoof - Bulls Eye - Sid (Sidhe logo/mascot) - Yin Yang - Tagger (Spray Paint Can) - Peace - Loop - Wrenches (Skull and Crossed Wrenches) - Penguin - Sad - Cow - Duke ( the number 01) - Zoom (the word: Zoom!) - Rocket - Gripshift (GS token)

CARS

Traxion - The beginner car in Gripshift. The Traxion has average speed and good handling. (Perfect for levels where tight maneuvering is a necessity.) TOP SPEED = 3/5 Stars ACCELERATION = 3/5 Stars HANDLING = 5/5 Stars

Choppa - What it lacks in overall speed, it makes up for in acceleration. (Okay for challenge maps but don't expect to set many records or win every race.) TOP SPEED = 2/5 Stars ACCELERATION = 4/5 Stars HANDLING = 4/5 Stars

Gravla - Well-Rounded car with a better sense of speed than the traxion. (Good for all around use in every mode.) TOP SPEED = 4/5 Stars ACCELERATION = 3/5 Stars HANDLING = 3/5 Stars

Strike - Slightly re-focused Gravla, but still a well-rounded beast. (Also good for every mode, but slightly preferable over the Gravla for cluttered tracks with hard turns.) TOP SPEED = 3/5 Stars ACCELERATION = 4/5 Stars HANDLING = 4/5 Stars

Colt - American muscle at its finest, flexing its speed prowess on the track. (Great for gaining a lot of speed for jumps! Although being slightly better at turning then the Bruiser, it is also slightly slower.) TOP SPEED = 4/5 Stars ACCELERATION = 5/5 Stars HANDLING = 2/5 Stars

Bruiser - The fastest herse in town. But make sure you don't get in its way, it might not be able to miss you. (Great for non-twisty race tracks and challenge tracks.) TOP SPEED = 5/5 Stars ACCELERATION = 5/5 Stars HANDLING = 1/5 Stars

Track Pick-ups

Nitrous - Blue canisters with an "N" found on most levels in which when driven into (collected), one's boost meter will fill and at any capacity, one can press the boost button to drain your boost meter but give the car a nice boost useful for catching up during race tracks, making jumps and making turns (with short bursts).

...On almost all tracks, the basic objectives (stars and GS token [Only Challenge tracks for GS token] ) and nitrous can be found. But on some levels, green rimmed clocks can also be picked up.

Clocks - These green-rimmed clocks help the user by putting a few seconds back onto the game clock before time runs out and you fail the challenge track.

...During Race tracks, players can be equipped with a few gadgets to aid them in beating their oponent to the finish line.

The Question Mark - The question mark pickup randomizes the aid that the player recieves between weapons and defensive items. The choices are slim however, only 3 gadgets.

1. TNT - The player can drop TNT behind his car for trailing oponents to run into and be stunned, however, these TNT crates only stay on the track for a limited amount of time. 2. Rocket - The player can shoot a homing rocket at his oponent to stun them, but these rockets aren't always 100% hits. 3. Shield - The shield is obviously not a weapon but protects the driver. When hit by a rocket or after running over a TNT crate while having a shield equipped, the player's shield will just disappear, not effecting the player's driving. The shield, like the TNT crate, does disappear after a certain amount of time in use

By stunned, I am referring to the oponents car stalling and being reset on the track nearby where he/she was struck with a weapon. Player's can only have 1 weapon lined up to be used. If the player rides over another question mark, no new items will be added for later use, nor will the previously held item be changed. So a smart strategy could be for the leader of the pack to keep rocket in stock in case he loses the lead at any point.

Multiplayer

Online multiplayer is provided in every version of Gripshift, with the ps3 version limited to just race track versus while the xbox 360 can do races and deathmatch arena battles and the psp version can do race versus and share user created levels.

There is however, no split screen offline or online multiplayer on either console version of the game, nor is there any Online race versus standings.

Challenge Mode Levels List

In Challenge Mode, when you start the track, no matter what objective you are aiming for, a countdown timer appears and if you don't get to the finish line in time, you will be forced to retry. Also, Rankings/Leaderboards for each of your quickest level times are supplied and can also be checked on your computer at www.SidheInteractive.com

===Beginner Levels Samples (Youtube Videos) ===

1. Accelerate 2. Round the Bend 3. Stars 4. Nitrous 5. Go Off Road 6. Race Challenge 1 7. Checkpoint 8. Loop the Loop 9. Back and Forth 10. Drawbridge 11. Fork in the Road 12. Race Challenge 2 13. Down 14. Speed Ups 15. Fans and Ramps (Sample) 16. Rock It 17. Power Jumps 18. Race Challenge 3

===Easy Levels

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19. Easy One 20. Any Door Will Do 21. Tight on Time 22. Move Along 23. Draw A Blank 24. Race Challenge 4 25. Loop Mania 26. Puck 27. Moving Platforms 28. Dropoff 29. Narrow Band 30. Race Challenge 5 31. Jump Pad 32. Loop Too 33. Stepping Stones 34. Bank On It 35. Right Or Left 36. Race Challenge 6 37. Petra 38. Gold Rush 39. Bouncy Bouncy 40. Push Me Crush You 41. Bomb 42. Race Challenge 7

Intermediate Levels

43. Handbrake Turn 44. Off Road 45. Camberquick Green 46. George 47. Elephant of Surprise 48. Race Challenge 8 49. Rampland 50. Rampalot 51. Hurry Up 52. Stairway 53. Rite of passage 54. Race Challenge 9 55. Junglicious 56. Speed Pup 57. Snail Trail 58. Ramp Up 59. Speed Ports 60. Race Challenge 10 61. Desert Run 62. Rocks of Ages 63. Guest Stay 64. Mags 65. Hang Ten 66. Race Challenge 11 67. Bobapalooza 68. Dinofall 69. Thin 70. Which Way Now 71. Teleports 72. Race Challenge 12

Hard Levels

73. Magnetize 74. Minefield 75. bomb Run 76. Dodge 'em 77. Handbrake 78. Race Challenge 13 79. Commercial Brake 80. Rock Hard 81. Power Tour 82. Moving Maze 83. Warp Party 84. Race Challenge 14 85. Spaghetti Arrabbiata 86. Downhill Fast 87. Speedy McSpeed 88. Dreadloops 89. Jump Skillz 90. Race Challenge 15 91. Beary Quick 92. Plummet 93. Elemental 94. Beans 95. Grasshopper 96. Race Challenge 16 97. Right To Drive 98. Gone Loopy 99. Rampant 100. Sliders Revenge 101. Slidey Slalom 102. Race Challenge 17 103. Falling In Love 104. Compact 105. Quad Spin Crazy 106. Day At the Links 107. Shove Off 108. Race Challenge 18

Insane Levels

109. Straight & Narrow 110. Perfect Move 111. Defanestration 112. Dust Hill 113. Shove & Smash 114. Race Challenge 19 115. Magnet Madness 116. Incredijump 117. Twisty 118. Starry Starry Night 119. Jimsanity 120. Race Challenge 20 121. Trapped 122. Death By Warp 123. Drawback 124. #1 Fan 125. Jump Maze 126. Race Challenge 21 127. Brain Wrong 128. In Pieces 129. Snake run 130. Traptastic 131. Temples of Doom 132. Race Challenge 22 133. Fanbase 134. Monster Speed 135. Intertwined 136. Traveleater 137. Krushko 138. Race Challenge 23 139. Fanatic 140. Mind the Gap 141. Rings 142. Slippery Slope 143. Decent Descent 144. Race Challenge 24 145. Magnetrode 146. Haunted 147. Bridge Out 148. Precision 149. Magnaloop 150. Race Challenge 25

Race Mode Levels

There are four sub-modes under Race Mode; these include 'Single Race', 'Time Trial', 'Practise' and Championship. Under each sub-mode, the same race maps are played but under different circumstances. Championship includes 1 extra difficulty, Ultimate, which pits the player up against all 25 race tracks with 7 laps on each track. All Race Mode tracks are the same as the 25 Race Challenge tracks during Challenge mode, but given names.

Beginner Tracks

- Round and Round - The Loop - Easy Oval

Easy Tracks

- Ski Jump - In Finite - Crossroads - Sweeping

Intermediate Tracks

-Downhill Sass - Fridge Racer - Lupi - Stack Race - Run Forest Run

Hard Tracks

- Speedster - Mt Jim - Long Run - Racing Beans - Rocket Science - Pew Pew Laser

Insane Tracks

- Hard & Fast - Jump Track - Figure of Hate - Tight Turns - Evil Oval - Highway 112 - Final Circuit

Music Soundtrack

All music in the game (when unlocked) can be played at any time by pressing the 'Start Button', selecting 'Options' and then selecting 'Change Music'. You start off with a few songs, but you must unlock more by earning credits during the game. The music is not organized by artist in the game. I merely chose to list them this way for ease.

||---------Artist-------||||||--------Song-------------------------||

North Shore Pony Club - Vice The Upbeats - Late Nite Fright B-Line - Getchagroove B-Line - Freeway Greg Churchill - Shock Rocket 2006 Greg Churchill - Loony Bin 2005 Salmonella Dub - Gospel According To Mant Filterbrats - Street Lights Filterbrats - Pikelits Filterbrats - Tinkera Filterbrats - Ice Cream Filterbrats - Frights Filterbrats - Whakatane Undertow - Nose Bleed Flash harry - Chain Saw Minuit - This Music Is Good For The Species Minuit - A Room Full of Cute Minuit - Fuji Perception - I Want It Perception - Thumpa Perception - Caviar Perception - Miracle Rhian Sheehan - Bounderies (Module Remix) Rhian Sheehan - Cosmology (Agent Alvin Remix) Oose - K-Phun Oose - Pulsar Module - Star and Sky Module - Nitro Is Good Module - Night Riding Module - Pedal 2 the Metal Misfits of Science - Shift (Module Remix) Misfits of Science - Fools Love (Ragga Remix) Misfits of Science - 3 Days of the Blender Misfits of Science - Attack of the 'Riders Misfits of Science - Mmmhmm Misfits of Science - Catch Up Misfits of Science - Fools Love Misfits of Science - Shift (Gripshift Theme Song)

Platform Exclusive Content

CONTENT PSP XBOX 360 PS3

Track Editor YES NO NO

Turbo Expansion Pack NO YES NO

Some Content In Expansion Pack Others YES NO NO

Deathmatch Arenas NO YES NO

Online Multiplayer YES YES YES

Rankings/Leaderboards NO YES YES

For Details on any of the content listed above, please visit [http:/www.sidheinteradctive.com www.SidheInteractive.com]

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