Find your grind in Inflatable Alley or blaze down Los Vulgas to discover new paths, fresh side quests, rad rewards, and epic trick opportunities. OlliOlli World launches on Steam (opens in new tab) on February 8.Take a trip across a lush skateboarding utopia that is filled to the brim with eccentric characters and vibrant locations that are begging to be explored. OlliOlli might have been playing it by the book before now, but with World's reinvention, it's stepping back into the park with a flair that might just leave a lasting impression. Today's skaters rock killers visuals and a skating style all their own. We've come a long way since Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Skate, and from kickflipping canaries to crystalline hellscapes, skateboarding is undergoing a new renaissance in videogames (opens in new tab). OlliOllie keeps what made those first two games great, but reimagines them with a sense of style all its own, and a reworked structure that feels appealing both as a laid-back casual skate sesh and a nail-biting high-stakes score attack. But World feels like the reinvention the series needed to properly break out. I adore skating, and skateboarding games, but OlliOlli has always sat under my radar even as friends stressed that those first two games are all-time bangers. I've found these proc-gen tracks to feel a little flatter than the bespoke campaign routes, but they work fine enough for a wee score-chasing challenge with strangers on the internet. But the further you get in the game, the more you're encouraged to go back and try to perfect past stages-to see if you can clear them without checkpoints, to chase down those side goals and rinse them of secrets, even if only to unlock weirder and wilder fashion.Īt the end of each region you'll also unlock more access to "Gnarvana", an endless skate heaven featuring daily challenges to bang your head against and ways to procedurally generate your own tracks with any visual style, length and difficulty you fancy. Hell, in some of the later stages, just surviving 'till the end was rough enough. You don't need to master each and every stage to get through Olli Olli World. Rather, World rewards great play with highest scores and snappier effects-and while forgetting to hit A on landing won't bring you to a halt like in the first game, you'll want to nail those perfect landings if you're gunning for the leaderboards. You'll get by just fine with sloppy ollies and adequate grinds. World, meanwhile, doesn't punish you with a hefty slowdown for not nailing your landing. To that end, it also feels a good deal more forgiving than its predecessors, which demanded precision on even the earliest stages. OlliOlli World is a game that wants you to relish in the joy of exploration. Taking the back road will sometimes even unearth an NPC who'll open up an entirely new stage, one with very particular win conditions and the flashest rewards. These might mean keeping up a single combo throughout the run, but could also require tracking down hidden folks or chasing a giant bee that only appears once driven from its lair. While progressing through the game only requires that you beat a stage, the steeziest gear comes from beating a series of side-objectives in each track. You'll want to rinse each stage of its secrets, too. Quarter-pipes see you turning back on yourself-and with railings, wallrides and occasionally entire sections of the ground collapsing after your first run through, you'll often open up entirely new paths by looping around once or twice. Stages will frequently split in two, with "Gnarly Routes" taking you down more dangerous (and more rewarding) paths. Routes wind in and out of beachfront stores, cliffs, forests and more, all cleverly desaturated to help you keep your eyes on the track.īut that newfound depth also lets World's levels twist and turn in ways the old flat backdrops never allowed. While still a side-scrolling skater, World's backdrops are no longer static images but fully-realised 3D worlds. A style that skews more Pendleton Ward than Jackass isn't the only thing that's shifted in OlliOlli World, mind.
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