Urban Trial Freestyle

I haven’t played Trials, but I assume this is a Trials clone. You control a motorbike over horizontal levels. You do this by using the accelerator, brake, and lean forward and back for stability.

In the majority of levels, you mainly always hold the accelerator but will adjust your momentum to navigate the bumpy terrain, ride over objects, and leap off ramps. The levels are more fun when you need to change your speed rather than just accelerating all the time. Examples of this are: nudging an object to make it collapse, slowing down to drop through a gap, stopping inside a lift.

There are two types of objectives on the levels. One is a Time Trial, so you need to simply beat a target time. Another is where you have to achieve a certain points target, and you do so by scoring points in certain areas: long jump, high jump, pinpoint landing, and spin.

There’s quite a lot of details in the level. Good set pieces: people jumping out the way, car crashes on the highway, a plane flying above you, destructible scenery, driving on top of a moving train.

Each level has some cash to collect, some of which lies in hidden areas. With your money, you can get bike upgrades but many of them increase one stat but decrease another. I thought the Engine upgrades were the most worthwhile since you often need the extra speed to get up some of the steepest inclines.

You are given a star rating out of 5 and new levels are unlocked when you achieve a certain amount. I found the limits were a bit strict about half-way through, so I had to repeatedly play old levels to try and gain an extra star or 2 in order to progress. Since the levels are already repeated, and you are forced to replay them, it does start to get really repetitive, and becomes worse as you get further towards the end. The final world seemed beyond me since you need to be obtaining 5 stars on a lot of levels to reach the desired number of stars.