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16 on Windows PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. Good luck remembering that when you’re chasing an S-rank score. So, anyway, yeah, Rollerdrome is Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater with a gun, but it’s also a commentary on the capacity of violent entertainment to dull our senses to the violence in our actual lives. If Rollerdrome, the in-fiction sport of Rollerdrome, weren’t this much fun to play or to watch, how could it possibly overshadow the machinations of faceless monoliths who wish to control and subdue the public into a state of surrender? Rollerdrome must then be so fun to play that one wouldn’t want to dissent, even if one were so inclined.
But the more I played, the more it made sense that entering the Rollerdrome would erase all but my adrenaline and desire to win. Unlike Inscryption or Papers, Please - other games that make you think about what it is you are doing - Rollerdrome’s gameplay appears not to reinforce the critical, political narrative, but to obscure it. The seriousness of the story isn’t in sync with the pure adrenaline candy of its gameplay. It’s too fun! It’s way, way, way too fun!Īt first blush, it seems like the two sides of Rollerdrome aren’t talking to each other. It is entirely possible, in the heat of a Rollerdrome run, to forget you are testing weapons and killing (possibly?) prisoners or some other disadvantaged class of people in the game’s near-future dystopia. What you’re reading is all very concerning, but the game part of the game, the part where you have fun, is all whoosh, pow, and whatever the onomatopoeia is for rail grinding. 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