New OlliOlli video shows off Career mode

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Hello! It was back in June that we last posted here. At that point we were about to embark on our first E3 trip with a VERY early build of the game. Needless to say a lot has changed since then! Player physics have been tweaked, we’ve redesigned a ton of grindable assets and we’ve also settled on the final modes of the game (there are four in total!).

In this post we want to concentrate on the most important game mode, Career, as it helps you unlock both Spots Mode and Rad Mode as well as preparing you for the do-or-die, risk it all, Daily Grind.

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In Career you are confronted with the task of completing 50 Levels split across five stages, Urban, Junkyard, Port, Base and Neon with 10 levels per Stage. The levels are split into ‘Amateur’ and ‘Pro’ to help the player skill-up as they progress. The Amateur levels follow a linear path, complete Urban 1 and unlock Urban 2, Complete Urban 5 and Unlock Junkyard 1.

However, merely completing a level is least of your worries! Each level has five challenges, two of which are always score challenges, one based on overall score and a second based on your combo score. The remaining three challenges revolve around collectables, performing certain tricks and playing the level in a different way, e.g. ‘Don’t grind in the first 300 Metres’. If you’re a super boss and if you have the uber skill, in some levels you can complete all five challenges in one go!

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So what’s the incentive for completing all five challenges? Well, I’ll tell you. Every time you unlock all the challenges in Amateur you unlock the corresponding Pro level. Unlocking Pro levels is not a linear journey so it’s up to you complete all those Amateur challenges to feel the wind in your hair and the concrete in your face as you step up to Pro Mode.

Pro levels take what you have learned in Amateur and ramp it up to epic proportions, longer grinds, bigger gaps and loads more obstacles, these levels will skill you up and you’ll notice your scores improve exponentially as you begin to nail your combos, which along with Perfect landings and Perfect Grinds is the key to High Scores.

Each Pro Level has its own five challenges, your mission is to complete the remaining 125 challenges in order to unlock Rad Mode, the super difficult mode that we’re going to keep under wraps for now!

Neon Perfect Grind w Combo Trail

If none of that has made sense then I suggest you watch the video at the top of this blog post, in which John explains everything above but with run-throughs, level select screens and a few face-plants for good measure.

Keep an eye out for the next two videos explaining Spots and the Daily Grind and get yourself over to our YouTube Channel where you can see the first in the series of these videos on Controls, Tricks and Spins!

Finally, while you’re here, you may as well take a look at our new teaser trailer too! Check it out:

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