‘OlliOlli’ Will Make You Want A Playstation Vita

Briefly: I’ve never been much of a proponent of the Playstation Vita. I purchased one at launch, only to sell it a few months later (there really weren’t any games at the time), and picked up yet another unit last February, which subsequently sat and collected dust (I expected it to solely become a Remote Play machine), until Media Molecule’s glorious Tearaway debuted in November.

Soon, I’ll have a new Vita game to play, and I feel like it’s one that I’ll be putting many, many hours into. Take a look at the trailer for OlliOlli below, and you’ll see what I mean.

It’s been a long, long time since a good skating game was released (Skate 2 was great, and the last great Tony Hawk title was probably the first in the Underground series), and OlliOlli definitely looks like it will breathe some much-needed life into the genre. It also looks excitingly different from anything we’ve played before, and is a perfect example of a game that fits perfectly on mobile, but likely wouldn’t translate well to a mobile phone, as you need buttons and precision for a game like this.

I can’t wait to get my hands on OlliOlli. It’s a Vita exclusive, and it hits PSN on January 21st.

You may want to pick up a Trigger Grip for this one.