![]() ![]() Using these two abilities in conjunction with the quarter pipes that line the inside and outside of the track means you can achieve some ludicrous speeds. Holding the right trigger when going downhill improves your speed, while pressing B when empty handed performs an uppercut which launches you high. It’s an aggressive, fast-paced experience that genuinely deserved a chance, even if Ubisoft hasn’t done the best job of promoting it.ĭespite the simplistic premise, there’s plenty of depth in Roller Champions that’ll set the new players apart from the experts. When it does, there’s few games, if any, that are anything like Roller Champions. It’s a bit of a complicated game to explain, and it’s much easier to understand once the actual action gets going. Managing to score at this point will net the team three points, while completing three laps and hitting the goal will score the full five points needed to win. Scoring a goal earns one point, but teams looking to take some additional risk can complete a second lap. Once one team completes a lap, they can either throw the ball through the goal or use tricks and speed to jump through the goal themselves. While one team is trying to carry the ball or pass it between themselves to complete a lap, the other team is trying their utmost to body check, tackle and utterly batter their opponents in order to steal the ball, deny the offensive team any passing options or to halt their momentum as they race around the track. The only way to score points is by getting the ball through the goal, which is located pretty high up on one of the straights of the circuit, but the goal only opens up once one team carries the ball through the four checkpoints of the circuit. ![]() It’s a 3v3 game of roller derby on an oval circuit with players essentially competing to score five points before the other team. ![]() It’s a shame, because Roller Champions is genuinely a pretty game. Some streamers have jumped on the game, and there’s a decent amount of Looking For Group posts on Xbox, which suggests there’s a community willing to engage with the game, but Ubisoft haven’t done enough to build up any real hype for the game. Knockout City was a big example from last year, and this year it appears to be the turn of Roller Champions, even if Ubisoft didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet for its arrival.Īfter being announced a few years ago as Ubisoft’s next big free-to-play release, Roller Champions released a few weeks ago with about as much fanfare and bluster as a fart in a tornado. Don’t get me wrong, those kinds of games are great, but it’s nice to try and support games that dare to be different. It’s fair to say that I like to at least dip my toe into multiplayer games that break the tradition of “shoot the gun and then you win”. ![]()
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