Each of the five locations is wonderfully distinct, taking you from the film back-lots of Olliwood through to the film sets themselves, covering Aztec ruins, the wild west, a creepy amusement park, and a futuristic cityscape. The original game’s functional pixel art has been replaced by a highly stylised, flat-shaded look that’s slick and contemporary, while also echoing points of inspiration like Another World and Prince of Persia. No matter, because there’s a lot of gameplay here already, and it’s tied together by an absolutely inspired makeover. The Olliwood premise is put to good effect. This splitscreen multiplayer mode will definitely help round out OlliOlli 2’s ways to play when it’s eventually patched in. It’s also a shame that the Combo Rush mode wasn’t ready for launch. It’s a shame there’s no way to watch a replay of the top runs on the leaderboard in-game to see how the hell the score was earned, but I’m sure there’ll be plenty of videos floating around on YouTube before long. There’s even an ‘Ultimate Spots Score,’ tallying up your scores across all 50 spots. Outside of the career mode’s 50 levels, there are another 50 spots to post a high score on – and see how you fare against your friends and the world. The restarts are instantaneous, by the way. The mechanics are robust enough, the controls responsive enough, and the level designs finely honed enough that I was content to simply keep at it. Even challenges that I attempted upwards of 40 or 50 times didn’t leave me (too) frustrated. OlliOlli 2 has a learning curve that seemingly goes forever, but its pacing is expertly judged. (Full disclosure – I’m nowhere even near this.)
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And if you can beat all 250 amateur and pro challenges, you’ll unlock another set of even harder levels. Once you master all five challenges in an amateur level, a corresponding pro level opens up, with its own set of five. There’s always a steeper challenge, of course. It wasn’t long until I was nailing perfect single-combo runs and feeling like a badass. From combo and high-score tests through to nailing specific tricks or collecting hard-to-reach items, the challenges are a great teaching tool in their own right. By the time it starts throwing steeper challenges at you, you should be ready for them.Įach of the 25 amateur levels has five challenges to beat (beyond getting to the end), and they’re a great mix, addressing every aspect of the gameplay. In fact, it gives you plenty of time to get a feel for the systems and get your eye in. Thankfully, OlliOlli 2 doesn’t demand that of you initially. You’ll also be required to use perfectly timed tricks off ramps to boost to the next section… or wind up broken and battered on the spikes below. Once you’re a chunk of the way through the career mode, you’ll come across grind sequences that aren’t possible to beat unless you nail the timing, or score goals that require switching grinds on the fly – which is only possible with a perfectly timed initial grind. Perfect ratings mean a faster-climbing multiplier for trick combos, but they also factor into the level design in a pretty major way. Grinds are a little looser to execute, only requiring holding in one of four directions (again, potentially with one or more shoulder buttons as modifiers), but the same timing applies: move and hold the analogue stick at the last second and you’ll get a perfect rating, this time accompanied by green sparks and a speed boost. Tap X (or X and left or right for a manual) just before you hit the ground and you’ll be awarded a ‘perfect’ landing. The innovation is that you need to catch the trick to land it, and the later you catch it, the better the rating you get – from sloppy to perfect. The former are triggered with a flick or swirl of the left analogue stick (potentially with a shoulder button held down if it’s particularly complex). Forget steering: this is a left-to-right stream of skating consciousness, where you’re flowing gracefully from one mini set piece to the next, attempting to commune with the clever level design and trick mechanics.įlip tricks and grinds are the main tools of your trade.
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It works in much the same way, letting you land in a manual out of any trick and thus keep your combo going, opening up the possibility of beating each level in a single monster trick.īluntslides are cool, but OlliOlli 2 introduces new tricks like darkslides.Įach of OlliOlli 2’s levels are short gauntlets, jam-packed with stair sets, rails, ramps, deadly obstacles and – in the case of the Titan Sky levels – towering robots, hovercars, and toxic ooze.
Like that landmark game, OlliOlli 2 introduces the manual, bringing a whole new dimension to the gameplay. This is developer Roll7’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2.
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