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Urban Trial Freestyle PC Game Full version

Review:
Once you get over developer Tate Interactives sheer lack of subtlety though and judge the game on its own merit, the real surprise is that Urban Trial Freestyle is actually a decent game. Rather than a half-hearted rip-off of an already popular title, its clear that Tate Interactive has dedicated proper care and attention to this during its development, to the extent that wed happily recommend it as an adequate (if not perfect) alternative for PS3 and Vita owners who cant get the Xbox-exclusive Trials games on their own systems.


The aim, naturally, is to get through a variety of side-scrolling obstacles and ramp-filled stages while riding a motorbike. The key to success is pressing left and right to shift your weight on the bike forward and back, influencing the way you climb ramps and land from jumps. If your rider hits an obstacle - be it the ground, a ramp or a low-hanging roof or decoration - then theyll fall off their bike, ragdoll physics will kick in and youll have to restart from the last checkpoint you hit. Just like Trials, then.

Its not a complete carbon copy, however - there are some differences. For starters, there are two different types of trial. Theres your standard time trial, where you race to finish the track in the fastest time (the game automatically downloads a ghost of the best racer so you can see how its done). Then theres the stunt trials, where each track has between three and five different stunt stations scoring you on a certain ability - the most flips, the highest or longest jump, the fastest speed you can travel past a set point, the most accurate landing on a tiny target - before adding up all your scores for a track total.

The stunt trials are interesting, and not just because they tinker with the traditional Trials format. As you approach each stunt station you can see a big video screen in the background naming the player who currently holds the highest score in that particular stuny, along with a big picture of their avatar. Its a little detail but a clever one, because the knowledge that you can actually be part of the level design if youre good enough offers great encouragement to keep trying or return later with a more powerful bike. Its especially entertaining on the Vita version, as youre asked to take a (optional) photo of yourself on the main menu, which is then used in the high score walls.

The tracks themselves arent perfectly designed but the background details are at times fantastic (at least on the PS3 version - much of it is removed from the Vita version to keep things running smoothly). Youll be riding through police shootouts (with characters rolling in front of your path), dodging giant clowns eyeballs, zipping through a ghost train, hopping over a giant golf ball, jumping through the middle of a massive rotating statue - and thats all just in one level.

Elsewhere there are exploding helicopters, slow motion leaps through office buildings, speeding trains used as jumps, picnicking couples who dive out of the way as you zoom past them... hats off to the developers, who could have easily made this a bog-standard Trials clone with generic tracks but chose not to. Read more

System Requirement:
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.2 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
RAM: 2 Gb
Disk Space: 1 Gb free
Video RAM: 512 Mb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon HD 4650
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Network:
Direct X: 9.0c

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