
- 60/100
- Players7 ratings
- 60/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- GameFAQsJust Right-Tough
- 3.41/5
- Player reviews
- 81% positive43 reviews
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$5.99
Where to get it

1999 · Criterion Games · Extreme sport · Racing
TrickStyle
Sega console exclusive
Grab your board, surf through the air, show your stuff, and win eternal glory with your off-the-chain skills. Re-Live this Dreamcast Classic Today!
- Released
- 9 September 1999
- Platforms
- DreamcastLinuxWindowsmacOS
- Genres
- Extreme sportRacingSports
- Developers
- Criterion Games
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Co-opMultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 3hmain story4hcompletionist
About
TrickStyle (stylized as trICkStyLE) is a futuristic racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Acclaim Entertainment for the Dreamcast and Microsoft Windows. Set in the future, the player takes part in stunt-filled hoverboard races through London, Tokyo, and Manhattan, or inside a massive arena called the Velodrome. AirBlade by Criterion and Namco is a spiritual successor. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its graphics and physics, but criticized its gameplay, animations and sound.
Players say
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game initially allows the player to choose a racer and places them in the Velodrome. From there, they can enter different rooms to decide their next challenge. The player can either challenge the Velodrome trainer to unlock new tricks, or race to unlock new areas and hoverboards. For the challenges, the player must pass through a series of gates before time expires.
For racing, the player progresses through tracks on 3 continents, the US, UK, and Japan. Once all five races on each continent are complete, the player unlocks a "boss race" which unlocks a new hoverboard. There are 18 tracks in the game, with 4 of them being backward versions of existing tracks.
Development
TrickStyle's soundtrack was composed by hip-hop producer Kurtis Mantronik. The game was successfully ported to PS2 in 2000, a demo of which was shown at GDC, but it was ultimately never released on the system.
The game was re-released by its current owners, Throwback Entertainment, on GOG.com on December 29, 2015, and on Steam on February 21, 2017.
Reception
TrickStyle received mixed reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.
Jeffery Adam Young of NextGen called the Dreamcast version "an impressive game to watch, and an infuriating game to play. Track design is sadistic, and AI players are inhumanly adept. Good mostly for increasing your stress level." Brandon Justice of IGN said that the same console version "sports the best art direction I've ever seen in a console racer", and compared the game to Wipeout, although saying it lacked the sense of speed to surpass that series.
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