I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of stuff you can do in Trials Fusion. There are admittedly, some extremely frustrating points but the track is designed that these are separated by just enough fun that you won’t be throwing your controller in frustration. The fast pace of each level and the feel of landing crazy tricks while flying through the air with jets and explosions is simply euphoric when you land one (and when you biff it, the resulting crunch is hilarious).
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The levels you ride through are falling apart, full of crazy jumps, and the designers must have shopped at a Pitfalls-R-Us during a crazy summer sale because they are all over the level and they are amazing. With the first few circuits dedicated to the basics, and you will need them, you are eased in slowly but surely into the crazy world that is Trials Fusion. You have a bike, an out-of-this-world track, and a phenomenal music selection to wile away the hours and it is so engrossing you won’t realize four hours has passed in these one-minute intervals.
That said, the music is superb and fits so well you will find yourself turning up the music volume and down the sound effects volume (I know I did) just to feel the rush with the peppy music and high-flying action of a little ragdoll on a dirt bike. There is something about the music that just brings back memories of another dirt bike racer of years long past and it struck a cord with me.
It is fast-paced, decent, and oddly enough, I was periodically hit with a loving wave of nostalgia for this old game called Excitebike. Throughout certain parts of the levels you will hear an announcement or some other quip that breaks up the audio at just the right time and you will find yourself chuckling as you think to yourself “Did they really just say that?” As I normally start with music I wanted to take a moment to just think about the ambient effects and the music as a whole and I cannot stress enough how much it is that the music fits for this game. You will encounter explosions, falling buildings, landslides, aircraft or buses and each one is lovingly crafted for to create an authentic sound and it fits really well.
Trials Fusion lacks the more overpowering ambient audio which is why I docked the audio a bit. Playing other racing simulators or racing games there are a large number of different sound effects that will be heard screeching tires, honking, environment audio, shifting, the crunch of other racers, just something to break up the monotony of engine noise. Changing the pitch as the bike is heading uphill or down is a nice change but after a few hours the sound really grates on you. The primary audio that you hear throughout the entire game is the sound of your little dirt bike or quad it gets old. The biggest gripe I have with it isn’t really a gripe at all, more a personal preference/annoyance. I will break away from the norm here normally I open the audio review with the music and how it feels, instead I will start with the sound effects and ambient audio for this little gem of a game.
While the levels are short, most being done in less than a minute, the open feel of each track would constantly leave me confounded as I think to myself, “it’s done already?” I didn’t see a single pop-in or framerate drop throughout the entire game and was thoroughly pleased when comparing the graphics between the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One version of the game. The camera rotates slightly as you skyrocket up some of the insane jumps giving you a stunning view of sweeping vistas or rocky caverns it really brings a sense of space and a feeling of having far more elbow room than the linear tracks really have.
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There are numerous events happening at the same time as you zip through the level you’ll have aircraft fly above you causing you to instinctively duck or a truck or van burning as it passes under a jump that makes you sit up just a bit higher as you stretch to get over the chasm. The second circuit that is available to you is in a frozen wasteland with pipes exploding, floors moving, and dim, dark corridors and it feels positively chilly as you’re riding through the left. On the Xbox 360 the textures pop, the lighting sets a hectic or frantic mood, the sweeping vistas in the background, all of it fit together so well you feel like you are a part of the race. For being a relatively graphically simple game, Trials Fusion is pretty.
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