If no one is racing in unison, passing back and forth, tackling any followers, or clearing the way for the ball-runner, it’s hard to build up enough momentum or confidence to secure victory. This sort of dynamic can make or break your overall experience with any multiplayer competition. While the aim of Roller Champions is very easy to pick up and play, games built around competition ofter falter if you don’t have a good team put together, or even just a vocal one as it can be rather easy to get frustrated when you get paired with a group that just doesn’t play well together. However, if you pass through 8 gates, thus ignoring the goal and going for another lap, you’ll earn three points, with a final lap scoring five points and winning the game. Be interrupted during your checkpoints and lose the ball to the other team and your streak is broken and you’ll have to try again. As you clear four sequential gates, you’ll open up the scoring ring, giving you the chance to earn points. During seven-minute rounds, with the first team to score five goals, you’ll skate counter-clockwise around the rink, passing through consecutive checkpoint gates. The 3v3 gauntlet you’ll undertake with your team follows rather simple rules detailed out in a pretty well-put-together tutorial, even if the announcer’s voice felt way too overexaggerated. While there is certainly a future here due to a solid foundation in its game mechanics, a bit more variety out of the gate, such as clan support, would have done this game wonders. However at launch, Roller Champions is a very bare-bones experience that is highlighted by having initially limited course options and extremely basic skater customization, apart from its catalog of paid items and those earned through its paid premium “Roller Pass”. Roller Champions certainly does have its moments, giving off almost the same kind of vibe as Rocket League or something more recent like Knockout City, another ball-centric game that saw initial highs and was the talk of the town for several weeks. The Roller derby genre is an empty one, devoid of pretty much any competition, but as a multiplayer game, especially one that is free to play, well that is one very crowded arena. Almost out of nowhere, Roller Champions has been released on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms and is a game that I feel like I’ve heard more about through various discussions on podcasts from the past year and change than any sort of marketing.
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