Fresh off their recent success with Trials 2: Second Edition for the PC, developer RedLynx is now set to release an updated version, aptly named Trials HD, on August 12th for the Xbox Live Arcade. We’ve been playing this downloadable-only title for several weeks now and haven’t been able to stop. Near perfect in every aspect, here is our Fact and Opinion review of Trials HD.
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Judging by its unassuming title and rather bland gameplay description, it would be easy to label Trials HD as simple shovelware. But to underestimate this Live Arcade title would be a serious mistake. Though it uses just a few simple gameplay mechanics, Trials HD is as exciting, challenging, satisfying,and rewarding as you could ever dream. In fact, this is hands down the best Xbox Live Arcade title to date, and the only real community-based counter Microsoft has against Sony's LittleBigPlanet.
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We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
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