The goal area isn’t horizontal like basketball, but rather, it resembles the vertical hoops of ancient Mesoamerican ballgame Ulama which is a pretty cool inspiration if that’s where it comes from. You gain possession of the ball, run laps, score goals, and pass to other teammates and slip stream ahead of them as needed. The game is pretty simple – perhaps to a fault. Nothing wrong with that in theory, but given there’s about 50 other games that more-or-less do the same thing and are more-or-less fighting over the same sorts of gamers, I worry about Roller Champions’ odds. Perhaps, at the end of the day, that is what Roller Champions is a game that will sort of connect with a lot of people for a short while, and only create long-term sparks for a somewhat niche audience, perhaps building upon that later with future expansions. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with games that are best enjoyed in short bursts. The redundant arenas, lack of strategic depth, and the sometimes very drawn-out matches going well into overtime started to drag on the experience immensely and I couldn’t shake the feeling that the game just had nothing left to show me after about an hour or so of playing it. Then, as quickly and mysteriously as the fun arrived, it was almost entirely gone. I was getting better at the game, managing my speed and momentum, taking shots at the other team when necessary, and evading them when they tried to do the same to me. Sometimes I would even mix things up and start going the opposite way of my team to play a little defense by griefing the other team with head-on tackles. Slip-streaming past each other, keeping the ball moving forward way ahead of our opponents, banking laps, and scoring big points.
"The redundant arenas, lack of strategic depth, and the sometimes very drawn-out matches going well into overtime started to drag on the experience immensely and I couldn’t shake the feeling that the game just had nothing left to show me after about an hour or so of playing it."
I got a rush of competitive energy, gripped my DualSense controller a little harder, and started playing more aggressively. Then after my opponent’s team scored, it clicked. Well past the introduction, tutorial and even into the first match, I found myself mostly just wondering what exactly is there about this game that gives it a reason to exist. It’s true that this new competitive roller-derby-basketball hybrid doesn’t make the most unique first impression.
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Another day, another brightly colored free to play game vying for our attention.
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