Your path through them is two-dimensional, but elaborately so. It's Richard Donner directing Jean-Claude Van Damme starring in your imagination aged 6: THE GAME.Įnormous, improbable routes go through construction sites, factories, parks, forests and the sky. Things meaninglessly explode around you as you race - vast quantities of nothing blowing up behind you, and maybe the track you're on disintegrating and exploding after you've ridden it. Except here, as if the best fairy ever had visited, it's come to life!Įverything is hyperbole-to-the-ultra-max. What it gets so right - and never more so than in this edition - is recreating those childhood moments of building elaborate obstacle courses for toy cars and bikes out of books, plastic lids, spare bits of drainpipe, etc, and then seeing if your wind-back-and-let go playthings could make it across. As ever, Trials is wondrous in its execution, and this time out the courses are more brilliant than before. Which is all very silly, since it's obfuscating an utterly brilliant time. So off you go hunting again for where the rest of the game is. Starting, you sort of guess your way to what is probably the beginning point, but eventually working your way through the simple - and absolutely fantastic - courses, you realise that's not enough to unlock the next bits. Just getting to a race requires going through a ludicrous six menus, each spiralling off in multiple directions. It's as if RedLynx had carefully built the game out of a tower intricate glass poles and playing cards, then calamitously tripped up when carrying it over to the PC, the resulting spilled disaster landing on our screens. Inside such a clusterfuck of a maze of menus, options, types of play, unlocked levels, bike types and race information. Great physics, refined controls, and a quick ramp up (fnarr) to monstrous difficulty, the formula is followed once again, and yet again improved upon. Pure, perfect idea, delivered absolutely splendidly. The core premise remains the same as its previous PC and XBLA incarnations - you're on a motorbike, jumping ridiculous obstacle courses. The PC conversion of the long-imprisoned Xbox version is described as being the "Gold Edition", but I think it maybe should have awarded itself a Silver, and taken another run at it. The most fun I've had with a game in ages. Trials Evolution is such a huge, overflowing bucket of fun to play. Has it been worth the wait? Does it survive Uplay integration? Here's wot I think: Rebranding itself the Gold Edition, and adding in a bunch of features unique to the PC, RedLynx has once more returned to the platform that gave them life, that they so cruelly spurned. Trials Evolution finally came to PC shores a couple of weeks back.
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