http://www.redlynx.com/index.php?id=520&productId=110
Nice and simple proper game, 2D, accelerate, brake, lean forwards an back. Analogue controls.
Level design is clever, inventive and interesting. Jammed full of really good ideas, like, really good ideas... you can ride a bike inside a giant metal ball, and over ontop of it.
Think the premise of ExciteBike... slightly over Americana'd and with too much content... the core game is very much totally fun and interesting... its suffering a bit from too enthusiastic level design and difficulty curve, i.e. the more straight forward levels sans mad physics are more controllably interesting as the more physics laden levels suffer a bit from, not random, but more tricky to understand as a consequence.
There are some very interesting problems that arise from having just the back wheel providing the power and you do find your self rocking the bike as you see on those mad indoor jump into concrete pipes onto tyres and so on.
Once you find the balance and the nuance to accelerate and not, its all pretty entertaining stuff.
Having played this all weekend, I can testify to it being fun, yet completely impossible on the 3rd out of the 4 difficulties in the more traditional single player mode.
I've just tried the tournaments, and they are just the tracks with a cumulative time, which is a nice remix... can't be that many people on it, on one of the tournaments I am 45th.
Admittedly I am trying to Gold each track before continuing to the next, I even spent 15mins on a track trying to gold it, until I realised it was a tutorial track, oops.
One of the more annoying traits, is that it doesn't obviously tell you what is required to get Gold until you've completed a track, then it'll just tell you what it requires to get the next medal, which may just be silver.
The general rule is no restarts (as there is a checkpoint system), and go... er.. quick.
User generated content doesn't really float my boat, but watching the vid are good for 5 mins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0jXqixH_Wo
And if this one doesn't convince you about the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmBnKY-a9M&NR=1
Nothing will.
That 2nd one is all kinds of AMAZE!
Argh, this is really good!
... but user generated levels can only be shared with friends :s
It plays exactly like Kikstart II but... HD really. Very nice indeed, time running and the physics-y controls are extremely addictive. I'd say the price is a little high, which put me off, but it is definitely worth it.
Do Want! T_T
I'll definetly pick this up once work dies down, I loved Kickstart II.
Yay! I completed the extreme category this evening after much fiddling and bunny hopping! I did this with the lighter Phoenix bike whose steering is more sensitive than the Scorpion and shifting the weight of the bike is so much easier. I really enjoyed this, so much I neglected opensenses and Bayo!
hooooooolllllyyyyy sheeeeeeeet.
Really, its actually possible?
I like the bike recommendation, maybe thats why it was making me think it was impossible, the tought of using a different bike didn't even cross my mind. durrrr.
This game made me RAGE so hard - respect to those with the patience and focus to play it.
http://www.redlynx.com/index.php?id=493
RedLynx doing a Trials HD lite Wii edition for the kids fun version thing....
MotoHeroz
Could be interesting, they seem to have an eye for 2d physics based games with wheels.
MotoHeroz is out next week. Not sure what regions. But I am fascinated. Should be good. Not sure if there is a loner mode though.
http://www.redlynx.com/motoheroz
There is a full and exciting single player something something so I am onboard.
Features:
Physics-based fun: Simple but effective physics deliver an addictive gaming
experience.
Fun for one: Single player story mode with memorable characters and rich visuals.
Fun for many: Four player party mode that is easy for anyone to pick up and play.
Take on the world: Ghost race against any time from any track in the game.
Claim the top spot: Global and Friend-based Leader Boards let gamers compete
against each other.
New type of daily competition: New tracks and Leader Boards opening each day.
Fully optimized: Steady 60 FPS, widescreen support, and blazing fast load times.
A complete package: 100+ tracks, four cars, and many game modes equals tons of
fun!
There is also a Trials sequel on the way:
http://www.redlynx.com/trials-evolution
I think it has different vehicles - did I imagine hoverboats?
Hmm Trials sort of got shitter the longer you played it. The harder more technical levels lacked the flow of the earlier stages and eventually I lost interest. I want to see more open stages with less emphasis on difficult obstacles and more emphasis on speed.
I agree, Trials was 70% 80% spot on, then it asked you to do too much too soon. And the differentiation between the bikes seemed pointless when the levels were so diverse / long.
From the microbes I've read Trials Evolution does that wrong thing of taking everything up a notch and losing the central premise. Hopefully MotoHeroz is tighter.
MotoHeroz is 1500 Wii points atm, but its pretty great. It's got that Team 17 euro jolly vibe about it, including typical whimsicle font and character design. Fundamentally its Trials HD, but without the angst and as such it lets them play with the actual game idea alot more, so you get yer loops and barrels and madness pretty early doors. Seems to be too much content at the moment, I can't quite visualise how much levels there are. The online bit is slick, timed events, so there is a finite time limit to post a score on an event and thats about it, so you can spend 45 mins on the level trying to be tops (I was top 20 on the first attempt on the 2 levels I tried).
Heartily recommend it.
La la la. I'm pretending Wii Ware never happened since I'm locked into the JPN shopping channel
There's been about 10 must haves I reckon. Maybe a bit less over the life of the service. But if 3DS is anyhting to go by it will all be available on Wii U (to plump up the software library). So you've got plenty to look forward too