Trials 2 Second Edition
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Publisher: RedLynx Genre(s): Simulation Home Page: http://www.redlynxtrials.com
Man and His Bike Jorma, zooming past the flaming barrels for the finishing line. In Trials 2 you play as Jorma. Jorma is the daredevil rider and the guy in with the black helmet standing in all of the promotional images. Jorma laughs at danger, and routinely mocks Newton and his theory of gravity. In a way he reminds me of certain tamed racing driver known only as The Stig. You could say that Jorma might be his long-lost brother who chose trial bikes over race cars - at least he has the looks. The goal of Trials 2: Second Edition is simple - drive a course filled with obstacles built out of boxes, logs, truck tires, ladders, ramps and other assorted bits, carefully balancing your bike by moving the rider and operating the throttle and the brakes. The objective is to test your skill at handling a trial bike. Primary goal is to complete each course without faceplanting the rider, or with the least amount of faults. Time is a secondary goal - you should drive as quickly as you can, but it's very much a tie-breaker - to have a shot at the top place on the scoreboard, broken bones are not OK. Laughing at gravity is optional, but recommended.
In addition to a couple of tutorial tracks and three sets of normal tracks (Easy, Normal and Hard), there are several tracks dedicated for special game modes. Wheelie asks you to drive the course while pulling a wheelie - only things that matter are the number of falls, and the total length of the wheelies you pulled. Flip presents tracks designed for death-defying front- and backflips, and the goal is to drive the course while doing as many flips as possible - flips, that you land without breaking your neck. The selection of game modes is rounded out with Dynamic tracks, which are standard tracks with the added twist of real physics that also apply to the track objects. While normal tracks are all filled with rigid obstacles and only your bike and the rider are mauled by the harsh laws of physics, on dynamic tracks the scenery is also filled with bits that follow physics - things that roll around, fall down, move under you or crash on you. Watch Carefully...What makes Trials 2 stand out is the ability to watch a replay of any registered run - if it's on a scoreboard, you can watch it - including the key inputs the player used to drive the course. You can also race against the "ghost" of a rider taken from any of the listed runs. Both features help you immensely to master the gameplay, and the best way to learn how to master the insanely difficult "Hard" tracks is to watch how the best Trials 2 players in the world do it, and then try to match their skill. I stress that the operative word here is "try", as it takes many broken bones and hours of repetition to fully master Trials 2 gameplay.
Scoreboards can also be filtered by country, and you can also compete as a team with your friends. There is even an in-game chat system that works as an IRC client.
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