If you're able to persevere and complete any of them, then you're a golden Trials god. If you can get past the first checkpoint on these, you're doing pretty well. Your rider too can be dressed in a range of costumes, each with their own themed duds that can be purchased and upgraded as you level up by gaining XP from events and successfully completed challenges.Īnyone familiar with past Trials games will know the score, as easy events give way to medium and hard tracks, before earning 110 medals unlocks the final challenge, which then in turn opens up the Master's Gauntlet, where you'll find the hard as nails extreme courses. Motocross bikes are still the star in Trials Fusion then, and all six rides – including the final prize for completing the game: the Rabbit pushbike – are fully customisable, with a range of colours to deck each one out in.
Events using the quad bike are a nice break from the usual two-wheeled motocross one-wheel drive beasts, but they're somewhat few and far between.
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New to the series is the TKO-Panda quad bike a comparatively heavy ATV that brings 4-wheel drive challenges to the table. You'll find six bikes to choose from in Trials Fusion – with conspicuously empty podiums in the bike select menu no doubt awaiting DLC rides – with the Baggie and Roach being the reliable all-rounders, the Pit Viper fulfilling the role of light, nippy and difficult to tame, while the Foxbat is used almost exclusively for FMX trick events. Trials still stands unchallenged for curvy ramps. It's the age-old Trials gameplay, refined to within an inch of its life.
Put the hammer down on the accelerator, and you'll send your bike flipping over, whereas too little gas will send you back down a slope in reverse to your doom. There is still a Skill Game in which you hurl your rider off a jump though, which is always welcome.Īs Trials veterans will know all too well, success in overcoming its near-vertical ramps and massive drops is all down to mastery of the game's complex physics, leaning when necessary to overcome bumps and jumps, while constantly adjusting the angle of your back and front wheels. Skill Games have been relegated to the role of a final track in each of the game's seven events, rather than getting its own devoted mode a la Evolution, though they're not nearly as off-the-wall as the previous game's UFO navigation. These tracks make up but a sliver of Trials Fusion's overall content, however, with dozens of courses still devoted to the purity of the core Trials experience. Scoring big on Fusion's FMX tracks is tough and exacting, much as you'd expect. Like the rest of Trials Fusion, popping tricks require precision, so pulling off a superman, coffin, driller, underdog or whatever can easily be undone should an errant thumb slip even a millimetre off kilter on the right stick. You'll unlock Fusion's new FMX trick events once you reach the game's 'Urban Sprawl' stage – the third out of seven main events consisting of 7-8 tracks apiece – enabling you to hence forth pull off tricks with a deft twirl of the right stick. There's a spiffy new futuristic setting too, as the electro title screen music is all too keen to tell you, blaring “welcome to the future” down your lugholes from the off.īack wheel down, keep your balance! Aargh!
This time around, however, there are a couple of new elements to mix things up, the most significant of which is the FMX tricks system. RedLynx's latest Trials Fusion seems like more of the same at first glance, and by and large it is from a gameplay perspective. It's a game that's every bit as gloriously infuriating as its forebears, that ever-reliable restart button the only thing between you and a full-blown screaming baboon-like tantrum. You'll find them in abundance once more in Trials Fusion. Every one of the countless crashes, bailouts, misjudged accelerations, incorrect weight shifts from Trials HD and Trials Evolution will play across your mind's eye like some sort of hideous acid flashback. There's a point you'll reach in Trials Fusion where all the memories of crushing failures experienced in past Trials games will come flooding back.