These challenges are tough, but that toughness does something special: it turns tracks that experienced players would find insulting into something worthy of their time. ![]() You might need to flip so many times during a successful run, or you might need to avoid a certain set of markings. Each track has three, which might range from finishing a clean run without leaning forwards or backwards to finding a hidden button in the track. That’s the casual crowd sorted, but on top of this we get additional layers for expert players. This, and the need to bag more medals, keeps you coming back again and again for more. Whenever you bag a bronze or silver, there’s always that feeling that with a slightly better run, and just one less mistake, you could really have that track licked. Luckily, you can always instantly restart the whole she-bang if you’re pushing for that goal, and you can also go back and mine earlier tracks for an improved result if you need a few more golds. However, crash and rest too many times, and you’ll lose that silver medal, while you need a clean run to get a gold. We also get a single-player mode, with themed tiers of tracks of escalating difficulty, that isn’t particularly difficult – at least at first – to work through.Īccess to each tier is controlled by medals, with one for a bronze completion, two for silver and three for gold, and while a bronze is good enough to push you on to the next track, you really need to start bringing in the silvers and golds if you want to bank enough medals to reach the later tiers.Įach track is quite generously packed with checkpoints, and when you crash – and you will – a single tap of a button will reset your try at the last one. On the one hand, we get more tutorials on the basics of acceleration, braking and leaning forwards and backwards to balance and control your bike. Instead, RedLynx seems to have focused its attention on making Trials even more accessible to mainstream gamers, but even more satisfying for hardcore fans. This is a better looking game than Trials Evolution, with unbelievably crisp full HD graphics on PS4, and spectacular courses that have you racing up Peruvian waterfalls or jumping through a sandstorm, but this is no-one’s idea of a system showcase.įor all its gorgeous lighting and cinematic camera angles, it just doesn’t have the scope to show that kind of detail. You can’t improve Trials just by adding more stuff you have to find a way to make it feel even better.Īt its best, Trials Fusion does just that. Where some games can be enhanced by adding features or just adding more realistic graphics, Trials isn’t really that kind of experience. If it wasn’t enough that Trials Evolution was so near to the mark, it also doesn’t help that the core of Trials’ appeal is its simplicity: one rider, one bike, a single-plane course of ramps and jumps, and one of the most streamlined control systems imaginable. ![]() Here’s RedLynx’s problem: the closer you get to perfection, the harder it is to improve. Available on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 (reviewed)
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