Trials HD | xBox Live Arcade
Trials HD is a very straightforward 2 (and a half) D game where your only mission is to get your motorbike to the end of an obstacle course (kickstart with explosives style). To do that you simply accelerate with the right trigger, stop with the left and push the stick left and right to control the balance of the rider and the rotation (when in the air) of the bike – that’s it.
Only that’s not it.
Trials is one of the most compelling, enjoyable and addictive games I have played this year. Replaying levels upwards of 50 times is my new nightly fix, desperately trying to beat my previous/friends (cheating Yacco’s) score. Always so close to making that landing, getting over that last tyre, or reaching the top of that stupidly steep ramp.
Over and over.
But, that’s one of the things that makes Trials so unique – you don’t mind. The balance between frustration and enjoyment is perfect – the more you play the more you learn the intricacies of controlling the bike’s physics, the more you feel like you can do that, the more you love it when you do. It’s a brilliantly constructed physics playground with a learning curve that makes it good to play regardless of whether you’re winning or losing.
On top of the main event Trials HD has a lot more to offer. It looks great for an Arcade title, it has loads of levels, some top mini games and the icing on the cake is a pretty powerful course editor that lets you create your own levels/mini games, which, of course, you can upload for others to enjoy. And if this game’s as popular as it should be, there will be continuous stream of user-made levels on offer for the rest of the year, all of which makes it well worth the 1200 points/around £10 it costs.
Trials HD is without doubt the best XBLA game of this year so far (aside from Peggle obviously).
Awesome.
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Shame it’s xbox live though. I used to play it through Flash. Can’t now unless I buy MS.
I think you confuse cheating with skill and true craftmanship here.
Oh and Shadow Complex is the XBLA game of the year.
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