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Riders of Doom

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Riders of Doom
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  • TreysForDayysTreysForDayys546,473
    20 Dec 2012 20 Dec 2012
    4 0 2
    Not going to talk about the graphics, the sound, etc etc because that's probably in the review for the main game, I'm going to review everything that comes with this DLC

    The new Bike(Banshee)
    I heard rumors that this had the speed of the Scorpion and the ability to bunny hop and bounce as good as the Phoenix, so I had high hopes for this bike. When I tried it i was a little disappointed. Firstly, I didn't think it bounced as well as the phoenix, sure you are still able to pass hard obstacles using this bike, but I found the Phoenix is much better. Secondly, it's not as fast as the Scorpion, yes it's faster than the phoenix but you don't really need speed on an extreme/hard track. One more thing, the Banshee makes a distinct sound when you are riding it, kind of annoying, not like the other two main bikes. Overall I will give this bike a 3/5 and will probably not be using it a lot.

    The new tracks and Skill games
    This DLC adds 0 Beginner, 2 easy, 4 medium, 10 hard and 4 extreme tracks, as well as 10 skill games. As you can see they have focused on the more experienced trials rider with this DLC. Let me tell you some of these Hard tracks are very hard and in my opinion 1 or 2 should be under the extreme category. The skill games are varied and some are pretty fun, the rest are pretty hard. Overall I would give the tracks added 4/5

    New Map editor Items
    Too many new items have been added to the map editor to write down, all I can say is that there is a lot of them!

    The Achievements
    The achievements in this DLC are extremely hard. If you don't consider yourself a decent trials rider you will not get them all. One of them you will have to get a platinum medal on every track except the extremes (Skill games dont count). This is very hard and you will have to be skilled at trials to earn this, another you have to pass a tournament consisting of 5 hard tracks in 0 faults. Hard huh. Overall I would give the difficulty of these achievements 5/5

    Overall, great DLC. For the low price of 400msp again, It's definitely worth it.
    5.0
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    HiradCI think of a lawnmower everytime I use the banshee
    Posted by HiradC on 21 Dec 12 at 00:29
    BLYASTIt's true. These DLC achievements are nasty! I consider myself a highly skilled trials player, but could not get all of these. I was defeated lol
    Posted by BLYAST on 14 Nov 13 at 21:52
  • k0rruptiDk0rruptiD148,827
    19 Dec 2012
    3 0 1
    At the time of writing this review i have got gold medals on pretty much all medium-hard tracks in the new DLC pack, and beaten all but 1 extreme track, accidentally hit select so it restarted when i had like 150 faults near the end of the final track. angry

    The DLC adds 40 new tracks i think this includes the skill games, as there are about 10 new skill games, including games like human javelin, taking your nutty squirrels on a roller coaster ride while collecting as many coins as possible (Mario style), a game where you try to jump as high as possible on 5 different jumps, a tower building game with blocks where you have to stack them up and keep building it, all the while in a jet-pack with a block magnet, and possibly my favorite skill game so far, infinite trials, as the name suggests there is an infinite amount of randomly generated rooms that seem to steadily get harder and harder, there is also an achievement for reaching level 15 in infinite mode, i have only reached 7, which is where it seems to get a little bit more difficult.

    The DLC also adds a new bike which is very similar to the phoenix, however the only stat that is different is it has less on the difficulty meter, it feels a bit lighter than the phoenix so will be a good alternative to those who use nothing but the phoenix.

    All of the tracks are up to the quality we expect with Red Lynxes official tracks, and as with the last DLC we have a whole new "world" to make tracks in, as well as 100+ new items for the editor. So if you're a track maker, get to it toast

    All of the tracks are unique, and many of them are challenging, seems the DLC only features medium, hard and extreme tracks, as well as the standard tournaments mode featuring the new tracks. From futuristic utopian cities, to underground ancient crypts, and a city flying in the sky (Bio-shock Infinite anyone?), the DLC adds plenty of great new content for Trials Evolution.

    The achievements are a standard list of Trials based achievements, zero fault a certain tournament, find the new hidden squirrels in the new tracks, beat a certain track without hitting the breaks (most of which we have previously seen), one for getting platinum medals on all tracks except extreme, platinum medals usually require a perfect run being as fast as possible over every single obstacle, it will definatly be a challenge, i have gotten many platinum medals in the original Trials Evolution tracks, just need to keep trying to improve your speed, watch replays, race against ghosts, and keep learning new techniques to be faster. The new achievements also have a bunch of hidden secrets on the levels to find, overall a pretty challenging set of new achievements with or without a guide.

    5/5 stars, for 400msp it's a steal.
    5.0
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