OlliOlli World takes skateboarding games to gnarly heights

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If you’ve played the other OlliOlli games, you should know what to expect in OlliOlli World, the skateboarding franchise‘s upcoming title. The OlliOlli games are pure arcade skating fun, all of which ditch the realistic looks and fully-explorable skate parks of Skate. and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in favor of cartoonish, 2D tracks that use the fantastical to their advantage.

After spending some time previewing OlliOlli World, it feels like the natural evolution of the franchise. The game takes everything that’s made the series wonderfully addicting up to this point — its fast-paced play and creative levels — and dials them up to 11. And while I’ve only been able to play the game’s first few areas, it’s clear that OlliOlli World can be a go-to arcade skater for years to come.

When you first get into OlliOlli World and are introduced to its weird cast of characters — a skate wizard, a guy that’s just named Dad, and two other quirky skaters — you’re taught the basics. I quickly learned how to pump and make my skater go faster, how to ollie and do other basic tricks, so on and so forth. But realistically, you don’t have to pay any attention to the game’s own sense of progression.

Every move that you can do in OlliOlli World is in the game’s slyly named Tricktionary, which everyone should take a decent look through after completing the game’s first levels. If OlliOlli World had its way, players wouldn’t know about grabs, spins, or manuals until its third area. Following that progression seemed awfully dull to me, so I decided to home-school myself on the game’s tricks.

After looking through the Tricktionary a few times through a couple of levels, I found that OlliOlli World isn’t just pleasantly cartoonish, it can be one of the