Kick back with a kick-flip.
Normally when you think of skateboarding games, you think of high scores and leaderboards — that’s what it’s all about, right? Well, that and H-O-R-S-E, of course. Stringing insane combos together to build up ridiculous high scores has been a mainstay in the genre since even before the days of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. It seems almost odd to think of a skateboarding game that’s completely devoid of high scores and leaderboards, but that’s exactly what The Ramp is. Billed as a ‘digital toy’, it strips back the skateboarding genre to its bare essentials; just you, a skateboard, and a few ramps. There are no points to earn, no high scores, and no optional tasks.
In keeping with the minimal nature of the game, booting it up will present you with a simple menu screen to start yourself off. Here, you can choose whether your skater is a male or female, black or white (there’s literally nothing between those options). From there, you can choose the game’s first of four skateparks to play around in, with a handy tutorial to get you started. You can’t pick the other levels until you complete the tutorial, but it really only takes a few minutes to get to grips with the gameplay.
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