Rollerdrome review – skating as a bloodsport
PC, PlayStation 4/5; Roll7/Private Division Mixing the colour palette of 80s comic books with post-apocalyptic bloodlust, movement in this fluid game feels sublime. Until you get shot in the head A blood-drenched deathmatch … Rollerdrome. Photograph: Roll7 17 S Kating of a wide variety have become an entire element all through the Covid lockdowns. As the pandemic positioned a pause on indoor socialising, parks have become the brand new pubs – and what higher manner to get away shut-in distress than gliding across the green? In south London at least, it’s a ardour that’s endured: each Sunday with out fail, I’m greeted through a bunch of boombox-toting skaters. Yet for sport developer Roll7, this lockdown obsession apparently took a much less healthful turn. If you ever notion that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater could be greater exciting as a blood-sopping wet deathmatch, then that is your sport. Channelling the smudged coloration palette of 80s comedian books and the post-apocalypt...