Online flash Motocross games have always been about crazy air and how many impossible back flips you could do, oh, and getting to the end. This one is a bit different. Trial Xtreme is different in the sense that the goal is to make it to the end, and if you happen to get enough air to do a flip, you can do one.
Title: Trial Xtreme | Developer: Galapagos | Genre: Sports | Players: 1 Player | Version: 1.2 | Size: 13MB | Price: Free (Lite) / $0.99 (Full)
Gameplay: Trial Xtreme follows the basic principle of any racing game, don’t crash and make it to the end. Along the way you encounter different obstacles that try to hinder your landing and make you crash. When you complete a level you are judged in 3 areas, Speed, Time, and Points. Each level gets increasingly harder, and a few levels look almost the same as the one before it. Trial Xtreme also tends to ignore the laws of physics every once-in-a-while, by letting you climb up a 90 cliff or crater so you can continue the level without having to start over.
Graphics and sound: The game looks beautiful and runs smooth as long as you have a higher end device, or if you are overclocked to 1GHz. There is, however, a problem with the menu on phones. I tested this game on my 3.7” OG Droid, my brothers 4.3” Droid X, and my friends 4.3” HTC Inspire, and all of them showed a squished title screen, options screen, and level select screen. I am unable to test if this is fixed on a tablet, because sadly I don’t have one. While you are navigating the menus, there is hard rock music playing, but it becomes silent when you start a level. While you are racing your motorbike sounds like a toy car that is revving up and down depending on what’s going on. There is also the sound of a crowd going “awwwwwww” when you crash and cheering when you finish a level.
Controls: First off I would like to say that there is no tutorial or help section that tells you what the controls are and, after saying that, half of the controls don’t do what you think they would do. Trial Xtreme is controlled by the accelerometer and the touchscreen. The accelerometer controls are pretty straight forward, however the touch screen controls are confusing the first time you play.
There are only 3 buttons, left arrow, pause, and right arrow, however only the right arrow does what you think it does. The right arrow is accelerate, so it makes sense that the left arrow is reverse, but its not, it is brake and when you brake it brakes hard. The trickiest button is the pause button, because rather than pause the game where you are like you think it would, it kills you on the spot, making you have to restart the entire level rather than continue from where you “paused” it.
Overall: Overall this game is different from the usual motocross games and its enjoyable to have a motocross game that is race oriented rather than crazy trick oriented. The game also looks good and I think it’s better without sound to annoy you and others around. There are still a few visual things to work out with the menus and a small intro of the controls would be nice, but there are so few that it’s not that big of a deal.
Rating: 3.75/5
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