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Urban Trial Playground
Backflip from the rooftops, over palm trees and sand dunes in ‘Urban Trial Playground’ and become the ultimate stunt racer!
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- Released
- April 4, 2018
- Developer
- Tate Multimedia, Teyon
- Publisher
- Tate Multimedia
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Urban Trial Playground Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Trials games don't come out as often as they should so we'll have to settle for these cheap knock-offs. That being said, Urban Trial Playground is a surprisingly fun little game so take off your helmet and get ready to do some tricks.
Urban Trial Playground is a simple, yet enjoyable stunt show through various parts of California. The levels are well made and the scenery looks amazing. There's a good variety of levels, but they don't take that long to complete.
For fans of the Trials series looking for a similar experience on Nintendo Switch, Urban Trial Playground comes highly recommended. It may not feel like quite as skillful a game to play, but it’s still challenging and entertaining nonetheless. It also packs quite a lot of content for its budget price. Only those expecting online multiplayer offerings will be truly disappointed with what Teyon has served up.
The Urban Trial franchise makes its console debut on the Nintendo Switch with Urban Trial Playground. Urban Trial Playground is a 2.5D, side-scrolling stunt racer game, much like Ubisoft’s beloved Trials franchise. This iteration, the third in the Urban Trial franchise, moves the action to the neighborhoods of beautiful California. There’s a shortage for this type of game on the Nintendo Switch, so the question is, does this adequately fill the void or should you wait for another developer to step up and deliver? Stick around to find out!
Urban Trial Playground does a few interesting things, but they’re overshadowed and ultimately held back by a number of factors. While I found the scored-based levels that relied on tricks to be more fun than the racing sections, gameplay is just not deep enough to be engaging for more than a short period of time. Couple that with the somewhat frequent software crashes and it’s easy to see how this ends up becoming a forgettable experience.
Urban Trial Playground is a physics-based 2.5D bike stunt game in the vein of the Trials series. You go from point A to point B through an obstacle-course while