![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one of Trials Fusion’s best points – you are absolutely spoiled for content no matter how you slice it. Some of these tracks are a bit of a novelty but there are some that are on a par with the dev team’s efforts and those are the ones that’ll keep you going back. There’s also a feature called Track Central which is made up entirely of custom maps made by the game’s very devoted user base. Welcome to the Abyss takes you under the ocean, which is really cool and is an entirely different set of tracks to anything we’ve seen in the game before.īut if you do somehow manage to run out of in-game tracks to hoon about on, don’t worry. ![]() The Riders of the Rustland sees you navigating a Fallout-esque post-apocalyptic landscape, Empire of the Sky is all about high-technology and tranquil upper class mansions, far removed from the end of the world going on down below. The Riders of the Rustlands, Empire of the Sky and Welcome to the Abyss Event packs are all available for Season Pass holders to grab now with another three map packs as yet unreleased. There is also quite a bit of DLC available through the Season Pass now too. This is not somewhere you should be trying to ride a motorcycle, and the environment is going to do it’s best to ruin your day. Each level is filled with it’s own traps and hazards that are designed to trip you up – loops, ramps, slopes, pipes, water fountains, mag-lifts – the designers have done a really good job of making motorbike tracks that really feel hostile to you. The left stick will adjust your lean back and forward, allowing you to move your rider’s weight around on the bike. Right stick will allow you to make your rider do tricks. Right trigger accelerates and left trigger brakes. It’s a simple system and one that encourages replayability. If you get the gold, you claim all three medals for the level which will lead to you opening up more Events much faster. Depending on your performance, you’ll earn a gold, silver or bronze medal. To progress to the next Event you must earn a certain amount of medals which are gained by completing individual levels. There’s a nice variety of areas and each of them has a very distinct feel. Some take you through idyllic foothills, others through high tech cities, rainforests, deserts. The single player is broken down into a series of areas or Events, each with a number of races in them. During extended play sessions, it can become absolutely infuriating to feel like you’re doing the right thing only to stack it inexplicably and have it ruin your otherwise perfect run. You might hit that landing a little harder this time and send your rider tumbling over the handlebars. Your bike might hit a bump here just a little differently than last time and send the rear wheel into the air and over your head. The levels are fiendishly designed in such a way that you could play a given level a hundred times the exact same way and something different would happen to you every time. The story is far from the game’s strongest suit and is little more than an excuse to build some crazy futuristic tracks in a variety of locales.Īs a single player experience, Trials Fusion is not for those with a short fuse or a lack of patience. The idea behind Trials Fusion is that it is set in the near future, the world torn to shreds by some sort of disaster that occurred following the creation of the “Anomaly AI”. Loosely based on the real sport of motorcycle trials, it sees your attempting to defy gravity by riding a dirtbike over improbable terrain as quickly as possible. Trials Fusion is physics-based puzzle/platformer, the latest in the five-game strong series. You fail and you rage and you swear that’s it, you’re done … but you keep going back. A few years ago when I played Far Cry 3 (co-incidentally, another Ubisoft title), Vaas, the game’s villain posed me a question: “Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? It’s doing the same thing over and over again and expecting shit to change.” That’s kind of what it feels like to play Trials Fusion. ![]()
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