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Generally favorable reviews- based on 227 Ratings

  • Summary: The follow-up to Trials HD brings the bike-racing action back to the Xbox 360. Ride in real-time multiplayer with two to four players, either locally or through XBLA. Take part in single player career with 50 tracks, challenging unlocks, and tricky achievements. A massive, track editor lets you build the track of your choosing and share it with the world. Or simply download highly-rated tracks from around the globe using Track Central. Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 77 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 77
  3. Negative: 0 out of 77
  1. Apr 27, 2012
    100
    Trials Evolution is a must-buy XBLA game for anyone who loves racing, physics, puzzles, and addictive competition...with yourself and others.
  2. May 14, 2012
    100
    Trials Evolution is really the best Xbox Live Arcade game to date. It is challenging, it is fun and the new courses are brilliant. For 1.200 Microsoft Points you will get a huge amount of content.
  3. Apr 23, 2012
    100
    It improves on the original in every way and shows just how a sequel should be done and is as close to a perfect sequel you will get. You owe it to yourself to buy this
  4. Apr 20, 2012
    86
    Keeping pace with the infectious, obstacle-based hook that made the original a hit while boldly charting new ground with tuned up features and an ambitious outdoor angle, Trials Evolution brings the breadth of its namesake to bear in a well-equipped and enthusiastically realized sequel that fans of the original shouldn't pass up. When it comes to providing an endless loop of frustration, fun, and harebrained antics on wheels, you'll find few other stunt racers quite as hopelessly addicting as this.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 58
  2. Negative: 4 out of 58
  1. Just WOW!. although i put down the original Trials HD sometime ago, it didn't put the slightest shadow over my eyes when i heard the Trials Evo was on its way. What an improvement (not that much improvement was required). the bottomless possibilities with the level editor and the 3 hours of fun ive already had re-playing level after level. For 1200msp Redlynx have gone above and beyond.

    - That Rick Guy
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  2. If you liked or loved Trials HD, Trials Evolution will satisfy you even more and you will defnitely not be suddenly done with this game and never play much, as we can now share our tracks globally, there is always tracks to get and now there is online play and matchmaking.
    Great things about this game// +Track sharing for everyone, not just your friends, +online play +improved editor and now you can make skill games out of it, +addictive, fantastic tracks and a great atmosphere.
    4 annoyances// (but nothing big) -Only 2 player party in matchmaking, not 3, (online play goes up to 4), apparently we might "boost," RedLynx should know DAMN WELL BETTER than that, and should realize that a level up system is completely unnecessary and they should NOT care about that sort of stupid thing such as "boosting" and let it wreck the game by deciding to punish us, the whole community. -Still no bike variety, still only 5 bikes. -NO custom track matchmaking and -terrible music.
    Trials Evolution is a really good game and it really is worth buying.
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  3. Redlynx tried to make a sequel to one of the best selling games on XBLA of all time and while they kind of succeeded in doing so they fell flat on their face with a few flaws the game has. One of the annoyances that I had with Trials Evolution was the new medal system they added in, they've taken the medals out of the original (Trials HD) and they've kept that same formula that made the game feel like you've achieved something. In Trials Evolution that's still the case but with the new single player mode dragging that down having to have a certain amount of medals to progress onto new, harder tracks the game just get's time consuming and can end up being more of a chore than actual fun to play. Another annoyance is the soundtrack, it doesn't really fit that Trials feel, music can pop in at random points and it generally doesn't suit what kind of genre Trials is in. Although the game has received little graphical updates than the previous title it still holds out as being one of the best looking XBLA titles on the system. The gameplay, while frustrating it's still incredibly fun and addictive, unless you're going to play the same levels to get better medals to try and unlock more tracks. They've kept the mini games and they've also added a few other game types in the mini games, one being control a ball (created in the in game editor) to get as far as you can and get the best possible time and score. The editor itself is very hard to learn but once when you learn how to use it then you can make things like a first person shooter, a football table game that you can actually play. The verdict: Despite little graphical updates and barely changed gameplay, it's still fun with new environments, constant levels being made from the community. The weak single player could be overlooked because of the flood of content being created by users. I would recommend waiting until the price goes down a little bit, but it's defiantly a game worth looking at. Expand
  4. 2
    Another attempt to cash in on a cheap tacky game, everytime I tried to boot this game up I was greeted with a long period of unreponsiveness, when I do get to play the game I find myself playing something from miniclip.com.

    Gameplay is same old flash style gameplay, graphics are the only thing worth mentioning about the whole game. It gets really boring very quickly and no matter how the graphics change and the scenary varies it doesn't make the gameplay any less repetitive or yawn-worthy.

    I give a 2/10 purely because it looks good but I wish I could get a refund as I would accept it in an instant.
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