#Olliolli mods series

Climbing tall trees and wall-riding past large friendly bumblebees is just some of the escapades I got up to here. Cloverbrook, the second area situates you in courses within a deep and thick forest. My character would dip in and out of different lanes of an esplanade while ice cream mascots and pigeons flexing their pecs at the outdoor gym made up just some of the curious individuals you’d see in the background. Sunshine Valley offers incredibly vivid L.A. When it comes to the areas you’re set to explore, I got to check out three of the five on offer. This crew, known as The Meltas, will be with you throughout your entire journey and will chat with you in between levels, doing well to bolster the colourful and creative world Roll7 are developing. Joining them is a young camera opportunist girl by the name of Suze, a conspiracy toting punk by the name of Gnarly Mike and an older gentleman by the name Dad. You’ll meet weird friends along the way such as the hippy, pipe-smoking ‘Skate Wizard’ Chiffon, soon to be retiring and intent on having you take up their mantle. You see, the campaign’s adventure will take you on a journey across the lands of Radlandia, a world entirely crazy about skateboarding. This customiser implements well into OlliOlli World’s… well, world.

Representation matters and Roll7 look to really be going the extra mile here. Characters can easily reflect one’s self or be as distanced from their image as they like. I let my little avatar taper towards a gender-ambiguous punk with dyed hair, tattoos and a dress with a pattern akin to the vibrant squiggly fashion you’d see on bus seats. This along with the variance in clothing, be it headscarves, dresses, skirts, funky button-ups and the likes, leave plenty to play around with. No gendering of your character occurs only the modding and morphing of their body shape and height. In the preview alone it’s clear the character customiser on offer will be quite extensive. OlliOlli World will situate players in the shoes of a character they themselves will create. Spending some time hands-on with it prior to its February release, it transformed into a game high up on my 2022 radar. With that being said, the team’s latest effort, OlliOlli World, is shaping up to be something magnificent.

#Olliolli mods series

Add on top of that the fact the genre itself is well past its golden age, you’d be forgiven if it’s a series that passed you by. Already it has the obstacle of being a niche in its category – it’s a 2.5D experience, rather than the typical 3D, exploration-based nature you’d otherwise see. Roll7’s OlliOlli series is a bit of a dark horse for the skateboarding genre of games.