Show of the Week: Steep and 5 Funniest Ragdolls in Physics-Having Games

Steep is an open-world winter sports game in which you ski, snowboard, wingsuit, paraglide and tumble helplessly down a mountain in a ball of ragdoll physics. This brings to mind some of our favourite ragdoll moments in Hitman 2, Skyrim, Skate 3's Hall of Meat, Sumotori Dreams and GTA 4 as we discover later in this week's show. Subscribe for this show weekly! http://www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox

Although humanity's complex understanding of physics has paved the way for great advancements such as space travel, fibre optic internet and the Large Hadron Collider, its greatest achievement is turning injured videogame characters into a hilarious, floppy tangle of limbs.

Consider the characters of Sumotori Dreams, for instance, who star in a game in which you must push the other guy over without staggering and faceplanting yourself, all while controlling a character who appears to have only learned to walk within the last six hours.

If you're after a more detailed medical breakdown of exactly how badly you're injuring your in game avatar, however, Skate 3's Hall of Meat mode went for full, excruciating ragdoll injury system, complete with an X-ray view of exactly which bones you'd snapped along the way.

Hall of Meat is a mode that was so phenomenally popular on YouTube that it caused EA to put the game back into print. It's now available as a backward compatible title on Xbox One, too, all so people can continue to maim defenceless skateboarders some six years after the game was released.

There is apparently a legit skateboarding game in there too, but where's the fun in that?

Steep is out now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. The original Steep gameplay footage in the video above was captured on the PS4 version supplied by Steep publisher Ubisoft.


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