The optimistic cityscapes and “ragdoll flail” of FutureGrind
The in-development motorcycle-grinding game FutureGrind is a lot like the classic NES game Uniracers (1994), except that its lone-wheeling ways is perhaps the only similarity that ties the two together. FutureGrind can be more favorably compared to its extreme sports game influences, such as the kickflipping gems Skate (2007) and OlliOlli (2014), to the intense snowboarding action of SSX 3 (2003). A stunt-platformer at heart, FutureGrind is summed up as a futuristic motorcycle grinding game—similar on the surface to the also motorcycle-focused Trials series. Yet in FutureGrind, players seek to land as many tricks on a track as humanly possible, all while bouncing vertically from color-coded…