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Rollerdrome (2022) Review (PIRATE THIS GAME)
9 months ago
Lets get the piracy out of the way; the devs who worked their asses off on this game were all laid off while the CEO got a 25 million dollar pay raise. None of the sales made from Rollerdrome will ever see the devs as you're paying for a publisher that stole their fucking money. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/ac.....ll-for-piracy/
Piracy is required for this game.
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Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X / S
Rollerdrome is one of the most stylish fusion game I have ever played being a cross between a TPS and a Skating Game complete with tricks and bullet time. It is also very Nintendo Hard.
You play as Kara Hassan in a 70's inspired rendition of the year 2030 where capitalism turned the world into a bit of a hellhole with Rollerdrome, a blood sport being created to keep the masses entertained. If you've watched blade runner or the hunger games, its basically the same premise only the protagonist is interested in glory and resolving her debts. Rollerdrome itself is basically extreme roller skating where you have to kill competitors while pulling off skating tricks to build up combos and get the high score to progress further into the tournament.
First things first, the game's minimalistic 70's themed artstyle is easily the best part of the game and I wish the devs were still around to make a FPS based on the artstyle alone. It does such a great job of capturing the feel of a roller-skating rink in addition to a mountain base and a shopping mall inspired by sci-fi / spy media of the 70's and 80's. Seriously go take a look at Eiger Resort and tell me that aint inspired by 007's On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Its just so fucking good man though it gets repetitive when the level theme are just skating rink, mall, desert, and mountain base.
The gameplay is very frustrating but fair and it comes with many assists for you to make the game easier and more bearable. You go through each level with the goal of killing everything in the arena and being the last woman standing and it plays like a gamecube tony-hawk game but you can now shoot enemies who are trying to kill you at the same time. You get a decent selection of weapons being the dual pistols, shotgun, grenade launcher, and a railgun but the game has its own twist; you have to perform tricks to reload your weapons. The better the trick, the faster your weapon reloads and vice versa. You also get a set of 10 challenges per level and you need to clear at least half of the total challenges to unlock every level in the game.
Now, the moment to moment gameplay works rather well with its focus on combining tricks and chaining kills to keep the multiplier high while dodging enemy projectiles and the game has a massive selection of tricks for you to perform during combat. Each weapon in the game has a purpose for taking down the varied enemy types you see as the grenade launcher is crucial to exploding robots while the Railgun and Shotgun are good at taking out Stompers and Polybeams but I always found that I kept running out of ammo too often which often brought the pace to a halt as I had to focus on tricks and then resume killing. I wished that we could upgrade our weapons especially as some of the guns really do need them such as Ex mags and more damage. The game does get overwhelming with its effects that makes it impossible to keep up with your dodges as there are too many enemies attacking you all at once and again, there are assists for this but I really do feel like toning the frequency down may help. The challenges themselves can be annoying especially when you need to clear them to progress further in the game but there's an assist that turns off the mandatory challenge requirements and the game is nice enough to count a challenge as completed regardless of victory or defeat allowing you to dedicate runs to clearing one challenge with no stress about making sure you win in the end.
Overall, the gameplay is solid and fair in terms of the challenges and what the game expects out of you but there are some nitpicks here and there that does bog down the experience a bit. The number of assists you get does help thankfully but I only found out that they existed... after I beat the final boss.
I raw dogged the whole ass game on its default hard mode.
But it did make for a very satisfying "FUCK YEAH" when i beat the final boss.
Another part of the game I wish they did more was introduce more first person story sections as I felt myself wanting to explore more of the world and backstory behind Hassan and the Rollerdrome Championship. I want to get to know the world she is in better but I respect the devs choice to keep the focus on the game. I just want to see more of the world in that amazing artstyle/graphics.
Overall if you loved the Gamecube/PS2 era tony hawk games, you'll love this twist on the genre and you'll love the style and gameplay of this gem. They don't call it Tony Hawk's Pro Shooter for no reason.
Played on a PS5
Edit: Forgot to mention that Rollerdrome has a hard mode called Out For Blood which is basically NG+ but with tougher and more frequent enemies. This is where I used all the assists just to clear the levels. Its allright but I would have preferred something more substantial.
Piracy is required for this game.
____________________________________________________________
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X / S
Rollerdrome is one of the most stylish fusion game I have ever played being a cross between a TPS and a Skating Game complete with tricks and bullet time. It is also very Nintendo Hard.
You play as Kara Hassan in a 70's inspired rendition of the year 2030 where capitalism turned the world into a bit of a hellhole with Rollerdrome, a blood sport being created to keep the masses entertained. If you've watched blade runner or the hunger games, its basically the same premise only the protagonist is interested in glory and resolving her debts. Rollerdrome itself is basically extreme roller skating where you have to kill competitors while pulling off skating tricks to build up combos and get the high score to progress further into the tournament.
First things first, the game's minimalistic 70's themed artstyle is easily the best part of the game and I wish the devs were still around to make a FPS based on the artstyle alone. It does such a great job of capturing the feel of a roller-skating rink in addition to a mountain base and a shopping mall inspired by sci-fi / spy media of the 70's and 80's. Seriously go take a look at Eiger Resort and tell me that aint inspired by 007's On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Its just so fucking good man though it gets repetitive when the level theme are just skating rink, mall, desert, and mountain base.
The gameplay is very frustrating but fair and it comes with many assists for you to make the game easier and more bearable. You go through each level with the goal of killing everything in the arena and being the last woman standing and it plays like a gamecube tony-hawk game but you can now shoot enemies who are trying to kill you at the same time. You get a decent selection of weapons being the dual pistols, shotgun, grenade launcher, and a railgun but the game has its own twist; you have to perform tricks to reload your weapons. The better the trick, the faster your weapon reloads and vice versa. You also get a set of 10 challenges per level and you need to clear at least half of the total challenges to unlock every level in the game.
Now, the moment to moment gameplay works rather well with its focus on combining tricks and chaining kills to keep the multiplier high while dodging enemy projectiles and the game has a massive selection of tricks for you to perform during combat. Each weapon in the game has a purpose for taking down the varied enemy types you see as the grenade launcher is crucial to exploding robots while the Railgun and Shotgun are good at taking out Stompers and Polybeams but I always found that I kept running out of ammo too often which often brought the pace to a halt as I had to focus on tricks and then resume killing. I wished that we could upgrade our weapons especially as some of the guns really do need them such as Ex mags and more damage. The game does get overwhelming with its effects that makes it impossible to keep up with your dodges as there are too many enemies attacking you all at once and again, there are assists for this but I really do feel like toning the frequency down may help. The challenges themselves can be annoying especially when you need to clear them to progress further in the game but there's an assist that turns off the mandatory challenge requirements and the game is nice enough to count a challenge as completed regardless of victory or defeat allowing you to dedicate runs to clearing one challenge with no stress about making sure you win in the end.
Overall, the gameplay is solid and fair in terms of the challenges and what the game expects out of you but there are some nitpicks here and there that does bog down the experience a bit. The number of assists you get does help thankfully but I only found out that they existed... after I beat the final boss.
I raw dogged the whole ass game on its default hard mode.
But it did make for a very satisfying "FUCK YEAH" when i beat the final boss.
Another part of the game I wish they did more was introduce more first person story sections as I felt myself wanting to explore more of the world and backstory behind Hassan and the Rollerdrome Championship. I want to get to know the world she is in better but I respect the devs choice to keep the focus on the game. I just want to see more of the world in that amazing artstyle/graphics.
Overall if you loved the Gamecube/PS2 era tony hawk games, you'll love this twist on the genre and you'll love the style and gameplay of this gem. They don't call it Tony Hawk's Pro Shooter for no reason.
Played on a PS5
Edit: Forgot to mention that Rollerdrome has a hard mode called Out For Blood which is basically NG+ but with tougher and more frequent enemies. This is where I used all the assists just to clear the levels. Its allright but I would have preferred something more substantial.
