Interface

Trade the Wheel for the Pad

For most any racing game we review, we recommend using a steering wheel. It gives you a more precise control, it feels more realistic; in short, it enhances the experience. That, though, is when you're racing in some sort of vehicle, like most racing games. Trickstyle is not most racing games. So put away your wheel and dust out that gamepad, because to control your board right, you're going to have to press all the right buttons.

Trickstyle first made its way to the stores on the Dreamcast, and it certainly wasn't designed to be controlled with the Sega fishing rod. The main emphasis when controlling your boarder is not heel-toe action or precise steering; it's being able to work those buttons hard and fast. If you're short a gamepad, your keyboard will easily suffice; there's no need for analogue movement in Trickstyle.

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Flamin' luge

Stunts

To make it through the mean streets of the future, you'll need to master a ton of tricks. Not only will they make you look cool and earn you flyness points, but they're often necessary to, say, bust through stained glass walls. There are four main stunt buttons, as well as the important "stall" button, which will, when held down, keep you in the stunt you're in the middle of.

This comes in handy when you need to ride the magna-rails (green glowing rails with their own gravitational field); you'll need to drop into a luge position, then hold stall to stay in it. Otherwise, you'll stand up again and, more than likely, fly right past the rail into a wall. Getting a hang of the different buttons and what they do is a bit tricky, but the game is set up to introduce you to tricks as you're playing, so you can jump into the action from the get-go, and improve along the way.

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