Roll7's Rollerdrome is a unique concept blending roller skating and third-person shooting, which is about as wild and fun as it sounds. When thinking about sports that transition well into video games, roller skating is hardly the first thing that springs to mind. Aside from a couple of Jet Set Radio games in the early 2000s and Ubisoft's recent Roller Champions, it is a sport that has not received much attention from video game developers. Shooting games, on the other hand, are probably the most common type on the market, so Rollerdrome is smart to blend the two.
The game plays like a mixture of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Max Payne. Set in a dystopian future where the sport of «Rollerdrome» is one of the most popular forms of entertainment, Kara Hassan is tasked with winning the tournament by stacking up high scores and combining tricks with lethal kills. Kara uses various weapons to wreak havoc on her opponents, and she can also slow down time to really zero in on her adversaries. In Rollerdrome, simply killing is not enough, it needs to look good too. However, it could use a few additional ways to play on top of that.
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The game is split up into several tournament rounds, from preliminaries through to quarters and semis before the finals. Each stage has various different objectives that the player must strive to achieve on top of surviving and taking out opponents. This forces players to actually think about what they are going to do, rather than just mindlessly trying to wipe everyone out. It's a concept that has a lot in common with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, which used the same objective progression path. With a concept as unique as this one, there should definitely be more modes and
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