Regrettably, I did not get to play RedLynx's
XBLA game Trials HD at E3 2009.
Not exact matches
The announcement of
Trials Fusion for the Xbox One was incredible news; few
XBLA - type
games garner the amount of attention that it has.
Past
XBLA puzzle
games like Braid extended themselves by challenging players to speedruns, while The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom included challenge maps with time
trials and other tests.
It was clearly an attempt to ape what the
XBLA Trials game was going for, and while it was not on the level of the 360
games, it was a fun physics
game with some well - handled mechanics and crazy level design.
(Note: Gamasutra shows that
Trials HD may have ranked even higher, though this also raises the question of whether it's fair to compare what appears to be worldwide sales of
XBLA games to U.S. - only NPDs)
First announced by Ubisoft at E3 2013 and heading to Xbox One and
XBLA at an unannounced future date,
Trials Fusion is the next
game in RedLynx's physics - based motorcycle racing series that found no small measure of success on Xbox Live Arcade.
Babel Rising launched on
XBLA yesterday and while we weren't too impressed, the
game's publisher, Ubisoft, have teamed up with Redlynx to create a new
Trials Evolution track based... Read More
XBLAFans Anticipated
XBLA Game Releases T - Z Tetris Party Challenge Toki Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Trials Evolution Tribes: Ascend Vessel Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown The Walking Dead Walter Warlords Warp Wreckateer Wrecked: Revenge Revisited Zombie Driver HD
Trials HD was developed by RedLynx and published by Microsoft
Game Studios for
XBLA on August 12, 2009 as part of the second annual Summer of Arcade.
Even with the steep difficulty curve in the later courses,
Trials HD is fun, plain and simple, and is one of those
games that every
XBLA fan should own.
But now that I'm back and have had a day to recover from the copious amounts of drink, usual service will resume, which will include reviews for two
games that have hit
XBLA lately: The Splatters and, of course,
Trials Evolution.
If you are an
XBLA regular you've probably noticed that Red Lynx's latest
game,
Trials Evolution, has ads plastered everywhere and is breaking all download records for the service.
Even though technically my GT has a floating license many
XBLA games seem to ignore this and always open as
trials requiring me to go through the 1 minutes wait to bring up the «unlock full
game» option and re-download it EVERY time I play.
If you're still not sold, when the
game is released it should have a
trial run for free — just like every other
game available on
XBLA.
But Ilvessuo confirmed that
Trials Evolution won't be a Summer of Arcade
game - the campaign Microsoft uses to typically launch the best
XBLA games (
Trials HD included).
Yeah, I've had the same thought before about
XBLA games and
trials.
Another
XBLA hit,
Trials HD is a take on those classic online physics based motorbike
games.
For today only you can purchase the excellent
XBLA game of the year
Trials HD for 800 points instead of the usual 1200.
GAME, the UK high street
games retailer, has rolled out a six - month
trial scheme for buying
XBLA games and DLC over the counter.