32 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 265.8 hrs on record (234.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 20 Jan @ 2:27pm
Updated: 15 Feb @ 10:38am

Trials Fusion is a phenomenal game with minor issues that is held back by its incredibly vampiric publisher Ubisoft.

I reset progress at 175hrs to go through the campaign again.

Pros
  • Phenomenal skill ceiling with a controller; there is a very active "Ninja" scene that prides itself on completing extremely difficult custom tracks focused on throttle control and balance
  • In-game custom track sharing and building
  • The game itself pushes you to do great and become great
  • Controls are extremely fluid and responsive
  • Most of the bike options are excellent and add unique twists on gameplay
  • Variety of cosmetics isn't bad
  • You can earn the paid currency at a decent rate by playing tournaments weekly but you have to be on the tournament screen when they end which is really dumb. You have to schedule calendar events to boot up Trials. Paid currency only goes towards cosmetics though.
Cons
  • Ubisoft requires you to be online to play
  • Ubisoft requires you to login every time you want to play because it's a "Legacy Product" (??????)
  • Ubisoft launcher sucks ♥♥♥♥ and is basically malware
  • FMX system is awful
  • The Awesome MAX DLC is really terrible and is super unfun
  • Sound options aren't as granular as they should be; Hearing the throttle is incredibly important at a high level of play, but you can't only hear the throttle; you also have to hear all other track SFX.
  • Menu design isn't bad but it could be better
  • Some content just isn't available any more (there is a crossover with the mobile game Trials Frontier where you can earn a couple of cosmetics but Frontier was taken off the app stores so you can't play it)
  • Way less female cosmetics than male

Conclusion
Trials Fusion is a phenomenal game, but Ubisoft's soul-sucking capitalist greed damages what could be a series that's still ongoing today. Instead, the series is basically on life support, and appears to be slowly dying. The Trials games were great, but Ubisoft was always in the way to make sure that these games didn't do as well as they could've. ♥♥♥♥ Ubisoft.
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1 Comments
.beam 5 Aug @ 8:30am 
i literally wont play anything that needs a ubisoft account or any stupid launcher that isn't steam

genuinely frustrating wanting something but not wanting the non-sense wrapper they put on the product that makes it literally toxic