Trials Rising Reviews
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Read our Trials Rising PS4 review to see if the five-year hiatus from the series has done it any good. RedLynx and Ubisoft Kiev had plenty to prove this time around, and the results speak for themselves.
A marvellously accomplished realisation of RedLynx’s deranged vision for the series, which somehow manages to be both the most accessible and most unforgiving Trials game to date.
Ultimately, Trials Rising offers phenomenal value for money. The tried and tested gameplay has been refined to perfection, there are more than 100 events on offer, and its multiplayer modes are a blast. Any Trials fan should expect to get dozens of hours of gameplay out of Trials Rising, which is not to be sniffed at. And anyone who has a creative streak can even create their own tracks, providing they put in the time to get accustomed with the game’s powerful track editor. Trials Rising is simply the biggest and best Trials game yet, and with more content coming down the road by way of a season pass, it’s bound to only get better.
All in all, Trials Rising is easily the best entry of the series to date. If you absolutely hate the previous entries, there's not much different in Trials Rising that's going to change your mind. Otherwise, you should absolutely have a blast. I'm anxious to see how much content Ubisoft will add to the game over time, but what's included already will be sure to keep you occupied for months and months to come. At $24.99, I recommend Trials Rising to pretty much everyone. You'd have to be a real Debbie Downer not to find some enjoyment here.
Even with a few issues, Trials Rising is an excellent experience on Switch, filled with a slew of creative levels and a lot of reasons to replay and tweak your experience. Sure, the version on Switch might not be as pretty as other versions, but it’s just as playable, aside from a few handheld framerate problems. Steady your hand and get to navigating the peaks and valleys of the world of Trials. Just make sure you’re connected online.
Rising is without a doubt the best Trials game yet. The community this series has garnered over the span of two decades finally gets a little of the limelight and, quite frankly, serves as the lynchpin of this game. The gameplay is as tight as ever while the tracks themselves are scintillating, showcasing the developer's creativity which is, even at this late stage of the Trials saga, first-rate.
Set in new epic locations around the world and featuring over a hundred tracks, Trials Rising lets riders travel the world and put their skills to the test through various levels of difficulty, beat the competition, grow their fame under the eyes of experienced sponsors and work to become Trials champions.
Keeping the core fundamentals intact, Trials Rising is every bit as enjoyable and challenging as its predecessors, but is marred slightly by the introduction of a pointless levelling system that only serves to lock off tracks and force you to needlessly grind. That core Trials gameplay is still sensational, though.
By and large, Trials Rising doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it maintains a high level of quality with the vast majority of its content by fine-tuning the series' strengths with a bevy of well-designed tracks, tight controls, physics-focused gameplay, and its offbeat sense of humor. Should players never even get around to trying out the online multiplayer, local co-op, or level editor, Trials Rising is densely packed with enough features to keep their palms glued to the handlebars for the foreseeable future.
Trials Rising takes us back to basics with the real world inspiring a long series of new and inventive trials, but losing none of the challenge or RedLynx's dark sense of humour. The menus are a bit messy, the loot boxes pointless, and it doesn't really advance the series, but when you get into it this is the series back to its addictive, infuriating, "one more go!" best.
Trials Rising is the (mostly) full package you’ve been waiting for. With its huge list of tracks to tackle and all the races and trick-based stunts you could ask for, RedLynx has served up the best instalment in the series since Trials Evolution. With a killer soundtrack, tons of customisation and an impressively deep tutorial mode, it’s only really let down by a tutorial-free Track Editor. The drop to 30fps might put off those also playing on other platforms and the drop in visual fidelity can be hard to miss at times, but despite its blemishes, Trials has proved its right at home on Nintendo Switch.
Even with a clumsy progression system, Trials Rising's vibrant tracks, tight controls, and excellent tutorials are some of the best in the series.
It's been almost 5 years since the previous Trials game released so let's see what RedLynx has been up to.
Trials Rising offers some of the coolest levels in the series to date, and its new tutorial system does a better job of teaching you how to actually execute its hardest techniques than any game before it. That wide variety of tracks is unfortunately bogged down by the frustrating grind it takes to unlock them all and some strange decisions that lead to a more discouraging experience, but it’s still satisfying to get back on the bike and try for better medals if you can make it to the finish line.
Trials gameplay is trapped in by its own excellence. With physics-based mechanics that are a real joy to master, this obstacle course platforming/racing hybrid has mostly maintained the same gameplay loop for years. Balancing your bike through a tough landing, bunny hopping across seemingly impossible gaps, and carefully scaling absurdly steep uphills takes skill and practice. It’s a tired formula that really can’t evolve without sacrificing what makes it special. To compensate for the lack of gameplay novelty, the tracks in Trials Rising are more bombastic and insane than ever. But a poorly managed progression loop and overreliance on microtransactions really drag down the experience.
We tell you, it’s a good game! It’s not average! It might have some problems here and there, but you have to admit it is a “Good” game.
Some unfortunate flaws unnecessarily sour the experience, but this is a welcome return for the Trials series and its unique approach to motorcycle action.
There's no doubt that Trials Rising is the culmination of the entire series. Running races that are built around platforming elements with a bit of puzzle solving when things slow down is an experience you can't find in any other game. Throw in a track editor and a ton of customization options, and there's plenty to come back to and perfect. The downer, though, is the overemphasis on loot crates and putting all these customizations either behind a paywall or a really long grind. This also includes unlocking the other bikes in the game. The track editor also isn't very approachable for new players, but having the option out there to download other's tracks adds to the replayability of the game along with the multiplayer options. Trials Rising is a fun spectacle that puts the best of the nearly twenty-year-old series into one package.
Trials Rising is the same Trials that you’ve been playing for years and years. Fans should be happy, but don’t expect too much in terms of innovatio
What do you do when you practically perfect a franchise on your first attempt? That’s the dilemma that Helsinki-based developer RedLynx has faced for some time now, with Trials HD taking the world by storm on Xbox 360. Ten years later, the Finnish firm is still making egregiously addictive vehicular platformers – but how does this new edition hope to draw fans back in?
Trials Rising hits all the right gameplay points for an experience that needs to balance entertainment with challenge. There’s a lot here for players to enjoy whether they want casual fun or a hardcore motorcycle platformer. While the audio and visual presentations of Trials Rising are lacking, the gameplay is fluid and rewarding. Players will experience unmatched frustration when they can’t hit a specific trick or skill, but that quickly gives way to pure joy and a sense of pride when an obstacle is bested. Trials Rising walks the line between challenging and fun, and it does so expertly.
It feels like the Trials franchise has been coasting for a while. Trials HD made a big splash on Xbox Live Arcade back in 2009, selling millions of copies and helping usher in a new era of indie success on consoles. Of course, Trials creators RedLynx didn’t say independent for long. Ubisoft snapped up the studio in 2011, and the results have been…mixed. Some of the more recent Trials games have certainly been solid enough, but none of have managed to recapture that 2009 excitement.
The Trials series has always proven to be a lot of fun, particularly memorable for its zany courses and incredibly high difficulty for those who want to achieve high scores and perfect no-fault runs. Best described as a motorbike racing platformer, you must navigate over-the-top and unreal obstacles without crashing and dying, which is still the heart of the franchise’s newest addition, Trials Rising. While the creativity in the tracks has been dialled up to 11, some puzzling progression de...