Rollerdrome dev video takes a look at its retro-futuristic combat skateparks

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Rollerdrome is set to drop into the rink soon. Today, Roll7 and Private Division🐼 showed off the level design of this new♓ blend of skating and shooting.

Initially revealed during Sony’s State of Play in June, Rollerdrome is a retro-futuristic game that mixes combat arenas and shooting with roller skates and sick tricks. As the player drops into arenas with both guns and skates on-hand, they’ll need to navigate around and take out enemies in increasingly creative ways.

In , Roll7’s studio creative director John Ribbins and Rollerdrome senior 3D level designer Jacob Mills discuss how this is a bit of a departure. Roll7 is known for its OlliOlli games, including this year’s excellent OlliOlli World.

Those games are linear. They involve moving down a track, hitting tricks along the way. But Rollerdrome is a bit different.

Combat arenas in Rollerdrome are open and free to pick apart at the player’s discretion. So the team had to create a bit of flow to the arenas, teaching ideas along the way. They bring up evolving objectives, like going from eliminating an enemy to eliminating one while wallriding, as a way to do this.

Xtreme combat

It’s a sick concept, and one I’m excited to see from Roll7. OlliOlli World seemed like the team really hitting a new stride with its skateboarding, but Rollerdrome is the ಌteam moving into both a 3D space and adding some combat too.

The visual throwback game will also get a special introductory price. On Steam and for PlayStation Plus members, Rollerdrome will have a price offer of $19.79. Then, after the offer’s over, the game will bump up to $29.99 on Steam and the PlayStation Store. Rollerdrome will also be included in the PlayStation Plus Premium game trials at launch.

Rollerdrome rolls out for PC, PlaySt🐈ation 4, and Ps5 on August 16.