This is not a game for anyone who doesn’t like to work for their reward. Getting on to Extreme and you’ll need all the dexterity and reflex you can muster to finish the courses. The jump in difficulty is immense when you go from producing a perfect run on a medium difficulty track on your first attempt, to needing over 100 checkpoint restarts on a hard difficulty trial. It starts easy, gets you through medium without too much bother, then hammers you on hard. However, the real meat and challenge of this game is the trials themselves, and I don’t use the word “challenge” lightly. It even opens up FMX events later on where you pull gravity defying stunts and have you imagining you’re on Red Bulls X-Fighters with Ed Leigh commentating on your body extensions and bravery. Each set of stages starts with a tutorial so you can learn new skills, and most finish with a skill game that provide nice counterpoints to the start-to-finish racing in the trials proper. The faster you clear the level and fewer times you fall off, the higher you rank and open the progression for the next round of stages. The gameplay is simple, accelerate through the level, crossing obstacles and using your speed and weight to balance yourself and stay in the saddle until you reach the finish line. The upgrade comes in the form of the 3D world around you being rendered in glorious 1080p, and the fact there are more than 8 colours. I have to say, I wasn’t wrong about the similarities with Kickstart 2 – you’re a rider on a motorbike fixed in a 2D plane. It seems a bit expensive for what is a download game, but realising that includes 6 drops of DLC along the way meant I could justify it in my mind and it ended up in my shopping bag. This wasn’t off putting, I’ve fond memories of both programmes and realised there was nothing really available like it that I would play (Urban Trials Freestyle has been sat taking up space on my Vita since it was given away with Plus last year). Was I right to drop £32 on Red Lynx’s physics based moto-scrambler?įrom what I knew about the preceding game I was expecting effectively a far more advanced clone of Kickstart 2 from my very old Spectrum days, which in itself was inspired by an old UK TV show about trials bikers making their way up rocky paths and over logs. I’ve never played Trials HD, but had heard good things about it from my Xbox owning friends, so when I saw Trials Fusion was coming out I figured I’d give it a go.
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