Trials Rising

 PlayStation 4
User Score
6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 77 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 77
  3. Negative: 22 out of 77
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  1. CnPx98
    Jul 25, 2022
    2
    Worst trials game to date. They bought back the system everyone loves, "Lootboxes" because that worked out so well before. The tracks are now laid out in a terrible over complicated way instead of Fusions more simple menu layout. Most of the game is locked behind micro-transactions including tracks and bikes. What you get with the game itself is just ridiculous. Bikes are even locked inWorst trials game to date. They bought back the system everyone loves, "Lootboxes" because that worked out so well before. The tracks are now laid out in a terrible over complicated way instead of Fusions more simple menu layout. Most of the game is locked behind micro-transactions including tracks and bikes. What you get with the game itself is just ridiculous. Bikes are even locked in multiplayer so you have to spend weeks grinding the same maps unless you buy more to unlock the good bike to play with your friends on difficult tracks that require a faster bike.
    They are even charging for Fusion tracks?! So charging for tracks that you already paid for with the previous game?! This game is micro-transactions mayhem. Everything is just locked behind paywalls making the experience without paying more money extremely limiting. So glad I didn't buy this rubbish as I got it on PS plus. Ubisoft as of today has 0 games that aren't ruined by mtx.
    The campaign in this game is terrible. You can't switch off ghost players which just annoys you. It's more a race against ghost leaderboards instead of just enjoying tracks. Trails is basically dead to me now. I wish you could play track central against friends on Fusion as then I would have an excuse to play any trials game but I can't be bothered to spend weeks grinding for a good bike on this one. Bikes should be unlocked on multiplayer. It makes no sense to have them locked?    … Expand
  2. da_bean_is
    Mar 22, 2019
    4
    Redlynx and Ubisoft chose a bold new direction for Trials. They wanted this game to revolve around multiplayer, lootboxes and community-generated content, but they screwed it up hardcore, and in its current state, Trials Rising is a broken mess of a game.

    The first several hours are nice. All the tracks have great design and are fun to ride. There are extensive tutorials throughout the    Redlynx and Ubisoft chose a bold new direction for Trials. They wanted this game to revolve around multiplayer, lootboxes and community-generated content, but they screwed it up hardcore, and in its current state, Trials Rising is a broken mess of a game.

    The first several hours are nice. All the tracks have great design and are fun to ride. There are extensive tutorials throughout the game that help you learn skills. Mid-way through the single player campaign, events become locked behind high levels, and you're required to grind out contracts to earn XP, regardless if you earned gold/platinum on every previous track. This is a tedious chore for long-time players, and a genuinely daunting task for newbies.

    The game's difficulty is shockingly inconsistent. In order to progress to the Grand Finale track (which is merely a HARD difficulty track, not EXTREME or NINJA, which I unlocked long before this one), you must complete 9 different Stadium Finals tracks, which feature abnormally difficult AI opponents. In these events you must string together several consecutive PERFECT RUNS in order to BARELY scrape by. This is a major source of frustration by all skill-levels of Trials players, I myself nearly had an aneurysm trying to complete them.

    The Skill Games are another instance of inconsistent difficulty. I can barely muster a bronze medal on several of these events, but on others I can effortlessly achieve a DIAMOND medal. An obvious lack of play-testing here, no way the devs could consider this balanced!

    You can download rider equipment that other people design, which is pretty cool... when Redlynx/Ubisoft allows it! They constantly remove copyrighted yet unoffensive content due to... reasons. I literally never seen this happen in any other game. It's ridiculous.

    Wanna play this game with friends? You better synch up with them in a ranked lobby, because private multiplayer lobbies arrive months after launch!

    On the technical side of things, It's astonishing how bugged this game is, especially when you consider this game had 3 f***ing betas to sort out issues.

    -Freezing for a second on every track, throwing my timing off. Sometimes it starts to chug along at 10fps for no reason.
    -Game crashes fairly often.
    -Bad inventory bug causing items to duplicate or delete at pure random.
    -Stickers on items erase themselves at pure random.
    -Ranked multiplayer just came out, and the scoring system is an absolute wreck, I've won each race, yet my rank keeps dropping and dropping.
    -While it hasn't happened to me, I've noticed people complaining about their Acorns disappearing. Acorns are the premium currency you can buy with real money. Ponder on that for a bit.

    tl;dr Trials Rising had vast potential, but launched in an unfinished state with inconsistent difficulty, poor design decisions & countless bugs. It's possible the game could be great by the end of 2019, but it's absolutely depressing right now.    … Expand
  3. Diesel_Fox
    Dec 15, 2022
    3
    I love Trials and have been a playing since HD. This game was such a huge let down. The UI was horrible and the World Map was an absolute mess. The non-linear layoutr and the grind just to unlock tracks made this game seem like a bad mobile port. -(also, here's looking at you premium currency and loot crates) I unlocked the first set of hard tracks then deleted the game after finishingI love Trials and have been a playing since HD. This game was such a huge let down. The UI was horrible and the World Map was an absolute mess. The non-linear layoutr and the grind just to unlock tracks made this game seem like a bad mobile port. -(also, here's looking at you premium currency and loot crates) I unlocked the first set of hard tracks then deleted the game after finishing them. I hated this because I enjoy the hard and extreme tracks the most, but I'm not going back and doing 25 backflips and riding wheelies for 100m on pretty much every track just to progress to the next set. I'm pretty sure it was Ubisoft who influenced these awful decisions (especially the constantly online feature) that essentially were game breaking. Slowdowns and stutters were terrible, and I'm sure they are game-breaking for high-level extreme players. If they do make another Trials game, go back and look EVO. It pretty much did everything right. But this game was just a mess.… Expand
  4. Snas
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    **** sucks, you can barely even get past the 4th level, don’t waste your money on this stupid game, you’ll just hate it

Awards & Rankings

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#70 Best PS4 Game of 2019
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#28 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2019

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 55 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 10, 2019
    80
    Tracks are filled with variation and unique gimmicks, but all retain that core challenging premise. Sprinkle in ghost challenges, a superb co-op tandem bike mode, excellent tutorials, and minigames, and this is the best Trials package to date. [Issue#161, p.84]
  2. PlayGround.ru
    Apr 8, 2019
    75
    It's the best game in the series, but poor technical component and corrupt reward system copied from mobile games separate Trials Rising from true greatness. However, having zero competition Rising is the absolute champion in the digital motorbike trials.
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  3. IGN Japan
    Mar 31, 2019
    75
    Trials Risings’s fail-and-retry gameplay is as fun and addictive as ever. However, the tutorials aren’t as user friendly as they could have been, and the tandem mode and edit mode aren’t that appealing either.
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