Trials Rising
Official Xbox Magazine|May 2019

Trials Has Risen To The Challenge, But Can You?

Austin Taylor
Trials Rising

Let’s be honest, as much as the Xbox One itself was love at first sight, our real honeymoon romance began as soon as our fingers caressed the controller – it’s perfectly sculpted for wandering gamer fingers. If that’s also the case for you, then Trials Rising gives you a reason to thoroughly reignite the intensity of those first flames as you tease it in your hands playing this terrifically fun bike balance-’em-up.

Be gentle with it. You don’t want to go too fast. Ease in that trigger to give your little motocross bike just the right amount of thrust for the situation. Feel your Xbox One controller lightly purr all throughout its body with pleasure at the touch. Well done: you’ve reached the lip, just enough momentum and throttle to pass over it. Now you feel like your bike is flying. Just a moment of sweet release. Now touch that stick. Nudge it slightly. You’ve landed two wheels on the ground, now lean into the next curve to take the rest of the track at speed.

At its core, the Trials series is about making it from one end of a track to the other in the fastest time possible while avoiding all sorts of tricky obstacles, making sure you keep your bike from tumbling over. Trials Rising is a game all about these small little adjustments, getting to know the quirks of a selection of bikes as you attempt to earn the best medals, get the quickest times, and complete a heap of challenges on the huge variety of in-game tracks.

Wipe out

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