Anybody on here playing Trials Evolution?

I normally wouldn't make a topic about an Xbox arcade game, but it apparently beat the day 1 sales record for an Xbox arcade game, so I thought there was a chance some people are playing it.

GT= McFly1955

Add me if you want all of your times to be beaten.


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Never even heard of it, I'll have to check it out.

Commander of Awesome;1152540 wrote:Never even heard of it, I'll have to check it out.

It's the sequel to "Trials HD" --- It's a motorcyle racing game with obstacles --- side scrolling (like the old excite bike, or like the more recent Joe Danger game). It's standing at "91" on metacritic right now, with high user scores, too.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/trials-evolution

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/trials-hd (the original)


It has leaderboards with top scores, minigames, a level creator, and you can play head to head online.

It's one of those easy to learn games with simple controls, but very difficult to master.

I have like 10-15 people on my friends list competing and I'm usually the best or 2nd best on each track, yet I'm still nowhere close to the top of the leaderboards...You can watch replays of the best runs and they are insane.


It's definitely my favorite arcade game -- have put in like 10 hours in the past week, which is a lot for me.

For the site I review games for, I got a code to download it, so I'll be checking it out tonight. Whether I play it seriously to try to get really good times or just play it to review it remains to be seen, since I'm kinda in this J-RPG binge mode right now with older Final Fantasy games and all that.

Heretic;1152585 wrote:For the site I review games for, I got a code to download it, so I'll be checking it out tonight. Whether I play it seriously to try to get really good times or just play it to review it remains to be seen, since I'm kinda in this J-RPG binge mode right now with older Final Fantasy games and all that.

You can't just try it out.....next thing you know you will be stayinig up until 1am trying to shave a couple seconds off your times.

McFly1955;1152592 wrote:You can't just try it out.....next thing you know you will be stayinig up until 1am trying to shave a couple seconds off your times.

Oh, I won't be surprised when this happens. I'm the fucking geek who, when playing Gran Turismo games, would soup up every damn car I won to the max and then test each one of them on the three time trial courses to see which one was best for any situation (fastest acceleration, best max speed, so on).

Heretic;1152612 wrote:Oh, I won't be surprised when this happens. I'm the fucking geek who, when playing Gran Turismo games, would soup up every damn car I won to the max and then test each one of them on the three time trial courses to see which one was best for any situation (fastest acceleration, best max speed, so on).

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The first game was fun as hell I'll be picking this one up sometime.

Yes. It is addictive. Played through into the third series of tracks (first one after B license test). Starting to focus on getting golds on older tracks, so I can unlock stuff. Basically made it far enough into the game that the learning curve is starting to catch me. First time through all the tracks in the first series and all-but-one on the second series were between 1-7 faults (the one in the second series where you have to use good timing to get on a scaffold that gets sent way up in the air to a girder/platform gave me problems...and sadly, that one's on the first tournament...bastards...), but on the third, I've been having a few 10+ fault attempts.

Whoo...it does get tough after a while. The Gigatrack course (or whatever it's called...it's the final one of the series right before the A license test) is just kicking my ass. Not to master it; just to complete it. Hardly any checkpoints makes me a sad panda.

The way I'm looking at it, I ought to be able to squeak out enough medals to do the A test and the next series. But to get 100 to get the final series...damn, I'm going to have to raise my game. I've gold'd all the first series. The second series should be easily doable with a little work. But after that...my first time through courses has mainly been a few doables (ones with 6-8 faults) and less doable (20+, a lot of times). Which stinks because they're starting to get really creative (like the course based on Limbo), so knowing I'll have to work like crazy to see more just depresses me.

Skill games are kind of hit and miss. Some are really fun; others like the ball-rolling one and UFO one kinda suck. Tournaments are EVIL, but I know that when I get good enough to do 4 or more courses back-to-back-to-back-to-back-etc., I'll be good enough to get good ratings on about anything.

Great game for cheap

I finished up the last 3 extreme tracks the other night --- they were a bitch.

So, I've completed every track, like 10-15 platinum, 40-50 gold and the rest silver/bronze.