Ludography
60/100
Players7 ratings
60/100
Critics1 review
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GameFAQsJust Right-Tough
3.41/5
Player reviews
81% positive43 reviews
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$5.99

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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
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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.

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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.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Dreamcast9 September 1999North America · Europe 14 October 1999
Windows1 October 1999Europe · North America 27 October 1999 · Worldwide 29 December 2015
macOS1 September 2017Worldwide
Linux31 December 2018Worldwide

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Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.