Occasionally, you find yourself in the locker room before the game, or on a train traveling to the next round of the competition, reading notes, letters, and conspicuously unguarded memos written by evil capitalists. Rollerdrome’s narrative portions are sequestered from its gameplay. Rollerdrome also wants you to know that the “blast” you are having is in service of Matterhorn, a monolithic corporation that is growing increasingly friendly with a fascist police state, and every run you complete helps that corporation perfect its growing arsenal of weaponry, which they are, of course, selling to the police - a fact that has not escaped the public’s perception, leading to a violent uprising of the working class, a coalition that includes some Rollerdrome participants like yourself, who, it is revealed at the start of the game, enter the sport of Rollerdrome by paying a six-figure fee, racking up life-ruining debt that the corporation hangs over them as both threat and promise that they can never, ever leave the Rollerdrome.īut good luck remembering that when you’re wall-riding with a grenade launcher in your hands! Rollerdrome wants you to have an absolute blast, and it succeeds. You will, undoubtedly, immediately retry a stage right after beating it, sure that you can kickflip over a baddie with dual pistols blazing just a little better, since you just barely missed A-rank.įrom start to finish, the gameplay is as hypnotic as it is difficult

From start to finish, the gameplay is as hypnotic as it is difficult. Doing so activates Rollerdrome’s version of bullet time, Super Reflex, which makes even the simplest kickflip look like something out of the Matrix. It’s frenetic, compelling, and surprisingly easy to parse, which is important as bullets fly by, requiring you to dodge at the last second. Gunplay and skating feed into each other, mechanically: Tricks get you more bullets, and bullets get you fewer enemies, which in turn helps you do more tricks, which finally allows you to clear out even more enemies. This is a game that feels good to play, which is important, given Rollerdrome’s more serious narrative. Image: Roll7/Private Division, Take-Two Interactive via Grayson Morley

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