Roll7 blends genres with total mastery in Rollerdrome, one of the most breathlessly stylish and casually, outrageously cool games you'll ever play. It is essential. Our review:
Mark me down as a square, though, because I am pretty terrible at Rollerdrome, despite its efforts to convince me otherwise. Your job, as debutant Kara Hassan, the rookie outsider in a niche bloodsport that's taking off in the worryingly not-distant 2030, is to sweep through the tournament and put a villainous rival in their place. There's some nice framing here. Between stages Rollerdrome morphs into a miniature narrative game.
I mean that in the kindest possible way, though. Rollerdrome is outrageously attractive. A level above - and it merges spectacularly with how you actually play it. Roll7's goal - as the studio has explicitly stated before - is to get you into a flow state with its games, a delight in OlliOlli that's evolved into a mode of magic murder-zen in Rollerdrome.
Throw in another layer for good measure - a big and brilliant one, the entire skating game this battle is built on. Grunts aren't just free health, they're a free hit to keep your combo topped up safely when it's fading away. Predictable attacks - they're all predictable to you, soon enough - are opportunities not just to dodge for more damage, but to speed up your kills on slower, more heavily-armoured foes that let you clear the stage faster, hitting a higher score.
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