14 DAY TRIAL // Good news, fans of skateboarding: OlliOlli is coming to the Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Xbox One gaming consoles sometime in 2015.
The news comes from a teaser trailer released by Curve Digital, that seem to be in charge of a lot of indie ports lately, informing the world that its voice has been heard, and that developer Roll7 is bringing OlliOlli, the 2D skateboard tricking game, to more platforms.
OlliOlli is currently available on Windows PC, Mac OS, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, and it's been quite a hit with the masses.
We also tried our hand at mastering its insane difficulty, and our review of OlliOlli on the PlayStation Vita went a lot more smoothly than the one on PC. Granted, the game should be played with a gamepad instead of a keyboard. Oh well, you can have a look at our OlliOlli review on PC too and make up your own mind.
Roll7 is currently working on Not a Hero, a side-scrolling cover-based shooter with a unique setting, where a rabbit mayor from the future, named BunnyLord, enlists the help of a murderous henchman in order to clean the city streets off all the criminal filth and to find new Not Heroes to purge the city with, using a wide assortment of weaponry, ranging from bare knuckles to katanas and shotguns.
The gist of it
OlliOlli is a fun little indie gem, blending the physically demanding gameplay of old arcade titles with fast-paced skateboarding, a pretty big library of available tricks, and a mad soundtrack that will keep your blood pumping even when you bail time and time again, cringing at the horror the little skater has to endure due to your fiddling thumbs.
That being said, the game is less about skateboarding and more about timing and precision, with its gameplay reminding more of a mashup of side-scrolling platformer and endless runner than an actual skateboarding game.
In any case, the experience is quite addictive – even if it's also quite punishing – and developer Roll7 has been pestered for a very long time to port it to other gaming platforms.
The voice of the crowd has been heard, so prepare to enjoy OlliOlli on the Xbox One, Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, sometime next year.
Roll7 is also working on the sequel to OlliOlli, titled OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood, and scheduled to come to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita platforms sometime in 2015.
