[Tetlee]

Had seen a few short clips of this game before but after watching this latest one on teamxbox I think I'm sold, looks fantastic and might be my first 1200 arcade purchase(1943 came close but not quite for me), only the second arcade release so far that looks worth the 1200 price tag IMO(1943 being the other).

Trials HD Movie (Xbox 360)

Only hope the difficulty curve isn't too steep as it looks like it could get pretty tough!

Release date is August 12th.

[Crovon]

I still play the odd flash game of this, looks really good!

[Codehead]

I love these games. I have a Java one installed on my lappy that eats all my time when I'm away from home.

Here's a couple of online ones (Not as good)

RedLynx Trials Flash Version - Flash game - GameDesire Arcade
Trial Bike PRO - Sports Games at Miniclip.com - Play Free Games

I'll be watching for this on XBLA.

[edit]
This is the one I usually play - http://www.miniclip.com/games/trials...in-heights/en/
The full (local install) version is better though.

[Earlyflash]

I have this on Steam (it was about £3) and it's bloody brilliant. I'm really bad at it - some of the levels are complete evilness.

However, it's awesome fun. This looks great.

[Covert Recon]

The video has just had me in giggles as the rider gets catapulted around, run over by mine carts, etc. with lots of cries of agony!

Looks like Little Big Planet meets Pure meets Flatout.

[gEELOVER]

crikey.. and I thought the steam version looked good.. v frustrating at times, but superb none the less, this looks much better n all.. just hope its £3 like the steam version Hopefully there will be a demo so i can see what controls are like first


bah, may need a bigger HDD too soon

[PhilNUK]

been playing this alot on 360...

a hell of a lot of fun and it is frustrating at times, but it just makes you want to keep playing to get past the next obstacle. Highly recommended when it comes out on arcade officially.

[Tetlee]

Originally Posted by PhilNUK

been playing this alot on 360...

a hell of a lot of fun and it is frustrating at times, but it just makes you want to keep playing to get past the next obstacle. Highly recommended when it comes out on arcade officially.

Not sure how you got it early but am envious You might be able to answer a question for me, I see there is a nice level editor, can you share your creations with your Live friends?

I noticed the first review is in over at metacritic.

87 Games Master UK

It may be a PC favourite, but the 360 community needs to get educated about this - and sharpish. [Sept 2009, p.82]

Sounds good.

[PhilNUK]

Originally Posted by Tetlee

Not sure how you got it early but am envious You might be able to answer a question for me, I see there is a nice level editor, can you share your creations with your Live friends?

I am playing it on partnernet on a devkit
Yeah think you can share the created tracks from what it looks like in the options!

[iainl7]

Ah, the first two rules of Partnernet...

[TheTrancelator]

Originally Posted by iainl7

Ah, the first two rules of Partnernet...

Rules/NDA won't matter to him unless he is a dev/press, he could of bought a dev kit on ebay or the likes.

PartnerNet is no big secret, anyone with the money can get it along with the devkit - and even if he was dev/press i highly doubt he would get told for saying that

[iainl7]

Oh, I know people break the actual "don't talk about what's currently being tested on Partnernet" rule all the time. It's where 90% of these "Game X is coming to Live Arcade soon" so-called rumours come from. Some people take it more seriously than others.

[bendanuk]

major nelson has confirmed the release as this wednesday and the price is 1200 points

This week on Arcade: Trials HD - Xbox Live's Major Nelson

[Tetlee]

Originally Posted by bendanuk

major nelson has confirmed the release as this wednesday and the price is 1200 points

Now this is where I would normally use a smiley along the lines of a or

but.... I think this one just may be worth the asking, just been reading the Eurogamer review and they sound very favourable, awarding the game a 9/10 and finishing with the following quote....

it's wonderfully designed, justifies the price, and may end up being the best thing on Xbox Live Arcade all year.

Trials HD Review - Page 1 // Xbox 360 /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More

There are also additions. Skill Games are unlockable mini-games that separate elements of the main campaign levels, twist them into fun little high-score challenges, and give them their own leaderboards. There's a task where you have to drag a shallow trailer full of bombs as far as you can go across bumpy terrain without causing an explosion. There's another where you have to build up speed and then bail just in time to propel your rider down deepening steps piled with glass, logs and other damaging furniture, the goal being to break as many bones as possible. There are a couple involving the number of flips you can do and the height you can reach in what are effectively pinball machines, complete with flippers. And there are a couple involving my friends the big metal spheres. None is the new Monkey Target of console mini-games, but each has its own charm, there are 16 in total, and if your friends play Trials then you see on-screen indicators for their distances, times and other feats.

and to answer my own earlier question, you can share your created levels with your Live friends

There is also an impressively detailed level editor, which allows you to construct your own courses out of all the objects you find in the main game, and then share the levels, albeit only with people on your friends list. We haven't been able to test the sharing element pre-release, but I've built a few things, like a giant wooden penis, obviously. The process was laborious, because making levels is laborious, but it felt like the path of least resistance, and it's surprisingly easy to make something that takes a good bit of effort to overcome, either by applying the lessons of the main game or through innocent quirks of whatever picture you're inevitably trying to draw with the level furniture.

[bendanuk]

mmm good praise, I will try the demo on wednesday and make my judgement then!

[Noggleboggleman]

Looks really good and reminds me of Kickstart 2 on the C64!

YouTube - Kickstart 2 - Commodore C64

Start it at about 35 seconds to cut out all the intro etc.

[iainl7]

The PC version of Trials 2 that I tried is very Kickstart 2, yes. I'm hoping there's something a bit more to this, though, as Trials 2 got frustrating rather than fun as the difficulty went up.

[PhilNUK]

Originally Posted by iainl7

The PC version of Trials 2 that I tried is very Kickstart 2, yes. I'm hoping there's something a bit more to this, though, as Trials 2 got frustrating rather than fun as the difficulty went up.

its frustrating as hell later on... trust me

[bonobaby]

this is getting great scores just read the teamxbox reveiw 9.2

[studmangav]

Will it be available from Midnight? (can't believe I just asked that lol)

[PurpleSteve]

Im sitting here refreshing the xbox arcade home page. Just added my points to save time. Been waiting for this game for weeks now.

[Billy Goodgun]

I was really disappointed yesterday when someone told me that there are only in-game leaderboards, no proper co-op or competitive play. It looked so good!

I'm not 100% convinced on getting this now - I am not sure I will really play it enough on my own to make it worth it.

[PurpleSteve]

I was not expecting online play, I was going to buy it purely for the single player. I might not get the play out of it that im hoping but I am prepared to take that risk as it could be one of my most played games.

[Billy Goodgun]

It'll be like every other Arcade game anyone buys: most played game for 2-3 days. Then you'll complete it. Then you'll never touch it again, as there is no online play.

[Tetlee]

Also wasn't expecting any online play with this particular game, I think the online course creation sharing more than makes up for it, although a stripped down excite bike style split screen versus race mode could have been fun

Have read several reviews for this now and my only concern is the difficulty curve, some reviewers don't seem to mind it, others seem to suggest it gets way too frustrating later on. At 1200 points I really do want to be getting my good share of gameplay out of it so the possibility of giving up three parts of the way through over frustrating levels is a concern.

Guess I'll just have to try the demo and see if it has that click where I can imagine being able to persist with it(as with Splosion Man for instance). Sitting waiting for it to apear on marketplace, the speed of my connection this last couple of days it'll probably take me a good couple hours to download

[PurpleSteve]

Originally Posted by Billy Goodgun

It'll be like every other Arcade game anyone buys: most played game for 2-3 days. Then you'll complete it. Then you'll never touch it again, as there is no online play.

Bit if a broad sweep there, I have had more play out of sonic and pacman than I got out of Battlefield. It depends on the game and I have a good hope that Ill be playing this for some time.

[PurpleSteve]

TRIALS IS OUT!

Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Trials HD

[bonobaby]

cheers steve its still not on the dash yet but its now d/l cant wait

[iainl7]

Originally Posted by Billy Goodgun

It'll be like every other Arcade game anyone buys: most played game for 2-3 days. Then you'll complete it. Then you'll never touch it again, as there is no online play.

I only played Outrun Online Arcade for the five (absurdly easy) multiplayer games it took me to get the achievement. Meanwhile, I'm still playing the single-player mode on a semi-regular basis, to get myself up the scoreboards. Clearly different attitudes, then.

[Tetlee]

Originally Posted by bonobaby

cheers steve its still not on the dash yet but its now d/l cant wait

Yeah, noticed that also, cheers for the link. Right then, seeing as mine is not moving from 1%(gonna have to phone BT again later) I guess I can get back to my decorating. Will look forward to trying this one later!