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It's clear to anybody with a knowledge of skateboarding that the team behind the original OlliOlli understood the sport at the centre of their game.Roll7's console debut, despite abstracting its subject matter into a 2D twitch side-scroller, captured the rhythm and flow of skateboarding, right down to its use of kinetic energy and the sheer presence of those landings. Retreating from realism, OlliOlli got closer to what is at the heart of skateboarding than most other games could dream of. And it happened to be a damn fine example of modern twitch, too.
A little over a year later, and OlliOlli's sequel is here. Much will be overtly familiar to those who lost hours to the first game, as Roll7 have wisely taken the path of refinement. Even so, it's worth heading back in.
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