Most levels still manage to remain fairly easy to read at a glance, too, as Ubisoft has developed a great visual language for when objects will move or shift, usually marking them with orange and white lines that enable you to react faster even on a first playthrough. The backgrounds have more detail and seem to stretch further into the distance, and cool moving elements like trains and cars can zoom in and out of your path to make the tracks feel less isolated from the environment around them, though less so once you get into the super technical late game stages. Its levels feel visually deeper and lusher, and a little bit less like sets and more like real places where these tracks could have been set up in. Rising is a great looking game, even if it isn’t any sort of huge graphical improvement over Fusion. It didn’t take long for me to mute it entirely and resort to Spotify for my own soundtrack. The soundtrack has also switched to almost entirely grungy licensed music including Motorhead and Stone Temple Pilots – it sounds like it was taken straight off of my middle school iPod, which initially gave a nice Tony Hawk-vibe but quickly wore thin when I realized how small (and thus repetitive) the library was. The 100-plus levels in Trials Rising are well designed in both layout and visuals, generally going with more grounded themes than Trials Fusion’s abstract areas, now based loosely on real-world locations like skateparks and the Great Wall of China.
Something as simple as driving a bike across a 2D level with nothing but gas, brake, and leaning left and right to control yourself wouldn’t seem too complex, but there’s a pool of technical skills to master here as deep as an ocean – and Rising gives Fusion’s unwieldy (if occasionally amusing) MTX trick system the boot to keep moment-to-moment gameplay closer to the core of what makes Trials fun.
Trials Rising is still fundamentally Trials, which is good because Trials is still fundamentally awesome. Counterproductively, though, it works against that urge with some tweaks and new additions which take the focus off of that loop of self-improvement and put it instead on repetitive challenges and discouraging PvP competition. The nail-biting reaction time and delicate finesse required to get through the hardest courses Trials Rising has to offer makes them as thrilling to overcome as ever, driving me to return to them to crash and burn and improve my times endlessly.
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I’ve long since stopped physically leaning into my turns while playing racing games, but something about the Trials series still has me twisting and jumping in my seat as if doing so will just give my rider that little bump they need to get over an obstacle.
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