Rollerdrome

You're invited to strap yourself in and have a crack at the adrenaline-pumping, ultra-stylish and ultra-violent extreme sport of the future. But can you keep up?

- Alan Wen

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STUFF SAYS 4/5

An ecstatic, potentially overwhelming rush of sci-fi sport and carnage

It's been a while since we reviewed a game that truly made us sweat like Rollerdrome does - and we don't I mean in the Nintendo Switch Sports sense.

Set in an extremely violent, cel-shaded dystopian future, your task is to traverse a variety of deadly arenas on rollerskates, eliminating all the enemies - from melee grunts and shield-toting heavies to pesky snipers - before they do the same to you. Think Tony Hawk's Pro Skater if he was armed like Rambo. And was a woman in a red boilersuit.

Considering most weapons don't require you to aim before you fire and you don't need to worry about getting a perfect landing, the combination of skating and shooting might sound pretty straightforward. But you'll often run out of ammo after unloading on one enemy and performing grabs, spins, flips and grinds is the only way to refill it.