my name is mwd

When we got the Xbox One I thought that that was it for new games for the Xbox 360, I’d play the existing games on the 360, but all new games would be on the Xbox One. And I was kinda right. I’ve not bought any new games for the Xbox 360, but I have got hooked on an old classic, Trials Evolution, which you can see demonstrated here by the chaps at Hat Films:

The premise is quite simple – you ride a dirt bike across a range of obstacles, trying not to fall off and do so as quickly as you can. The controls are very simple: you can go faster or slower, and you can shift your weight back and forward. That all there is to it, so it’s very easy to pick up and get started, but quite tricky to master to perfection; which sums up this game quite well.

I recall playing the demo for the precursor to this instalment, Trials HD, and being deeply unimpressed with it, due to it being very frustrating from the get go. This is why I avoided Trials Evolution until last week, but the new version gets it very right. It’s easy to pick up and play and have some fun; the basic bikes and tracks are easy to get to grips with, so you can have fun without frustration, blasting through the countryside on your dirt bike within moments of starting the game up. But, at the same time, there’s always the challenge to go one better and be a perfectionist on each track, so it can also be played as a very technical game. RedLynx did a good job of catering to both mindsets in a single game.

To add to the draw, if your friends have played at all, you get to see their ghosts as you play, so even though I’ve just been playing it single player, it’s got a competitive edge to it as I want to try and beat my friends. No doubt my friends are more hip than me and got the game when it was first released almost two years ago, but it matters not in this digital time shifted era – I can have fun challenging them even though I’m years late to the party.

It’s quite cheap as games go, and there’s hours of fun to be had here, so I do recommend it if you’ve not picked it up yet. Great pick up and play action.