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Review: Trials Frontier (iPhone)

Added: 10.04.2014 9:00 | 1 views | 0 comments

Playing the waiting game.

Red Lynx has certainly embraced that mantra in taking its series – a long time occupant of the 360 – to iOS. Though the familiar physics-heavy motorcross-platformer that has long-defined the series lurks at the core of Frontier, it’s a game significantly tweaked and tuned. The results of that tinkering present a mixed bag, and a release aggressively sculpted by free-to-play mechanisms.

At a basic level, it is Trials all over again. Leaning back and forwards, along with jabs at accelerate and brake, allows for tearing through towering 2.5D stages built from ramps and...