The main story mission is finding Butch's hideout with the aid of the town's cartographer - by completing courses you are "searching" for it. As you meet the town residents, you learn Butch was the town's previous dirt bike hero, but something happened that turned him evil and he escaped, stealing a load of stuff. It was a trap, you find out when you wake in town, set by Butch to frighten off any dirt bike hero who showed their face. Nothing new if you're familiar with the series, but this happens half-way through a course. Now to the game itself: you are biking around the countryside in the frontier lands and are crushed by falling rocks. It has been a feature since Trials HD, so they have it down to an art. Currently none of my friends have this, so I was unable to race them, but I could race strangers from the leaderboards' ghosts - it's nothing that hasn't been seen before and is hard to screw up. Trials Frontier also allows you to post your times to Facebook, even offering you diamonds if you do so. You don't have to, but logging in with your UPlay account gives you access to your friends' ghosts to race against. Of course, upgrades also take time to install, but you can still do missions and try to beat your and your friends' times.Īs the game is being published by Ubisoft it of course has their UPlay connectivity. You also need coins for the upgrades, which are awarded for completing missions, passing checkpoints and leveling up. The parts are used to upgrade the bikes, though diamonds can be used to purchase the parts: 2 diamonds per part. This means you can potentially get 5 diamonds for 5 fuel, though if you're that lucky then you miss out on parts which are also on the wheel. The premium currency diamonds are on the spinner which greets you at the end of each level. For instance, I'm currently waiting for it to refill as I type the start of this review. However, I found it a useful time to take a break and do something else while I waited for it to refill. It refills by one unit every 3 minutes, meaning it can take a while to fill up as you progress further. It goes up by 1 and refuels fully whenever you level up, though you can use the diamonds used as premium currency to buy more units and refill the tank. It takes 5 fuel to do a track once, starting off at 20 maximum units. The premium currency is almost as easy to obtain as the parts you need to upgrade your various bikes and levelling up refills your fuel tank.Īnd that's the rub of the freemium - the fuel tank. However, as I played through I never got the feeling I had to buy anything. That obviously meant it being a premium game or a freemium game, in this case they opted for freemium. They've had a few multi-platform offerings, but this is the first actual Trials to reach a mobile device. Throw in explosions and ragdoll mechanics and it was a winner! So when I found Trials many years later, I knew I would enjoy it - physics-based games were something I was always on the lookout for. I started out playing a similar game on my Sony Clié PDA, back in the far flung reaches of 2004 - ride a bike across an obstacle-filled course to collect flags. Mobile // 16th Jun 2014 - 10 years ago // By Andrew Duncan Trials Frontier ReviewĮver since I played Trials HD on the Xbox 360, I've loved this series.
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