Trials Fusion Reviews

Trials Fusion is ranked in the 75th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Apr 16, 2014

Comparable to the titles that came before it, Fusion shines spectacularly with its sharp interface, sophisticated and refined environments, and an overall spiritedness that makes you feel alive inside even when you're ready to smash your controller.

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9 / 10
Apr 16, 2014

Trials Fusion continues the tradition of finely balanced frustration and joy that always made previous games in the series so compelling. The online multiplayer situation is a little unclear at launch but this series has always been mostly about the leaderboard struggles and Fusion delivers that in spades. The user-generated content adds plenty of longevity, even beyond the promise of those six DLC packs over the next year and the new trick system – frustrating and difficult to master as it is – is a perfect fit for the game.

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9 / 10
Apr 15, 2014

A melding of the established template and something just new enough, RedLynx's creation is a wonderful thing.

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GamesBeat
Top Critic
90 / 100
Apr 15, 2014

For me, Trials Fusion plays like a nearly perfect game.

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9 / 10
Apr 17, 2014

Trials Fusion is one of the best games on the PlayStation 4, there's no doubt about that. Convince your friends to get it, and established relationships will turn sour faster than an Evel Knievel-esque stunt. Challenging, funny, and exciting – gaming rarely gets any better than this.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2014

Trials Fusion is a good game. Great, even. It's taken what we've all come to know and enjoy, and added in quite a few new longevity ingredients to the mix. Create mode will occupy you potentially forever, and besting your friends on the leaderboards is proving to be a new addiction. Superficial unlocks and strange (possibly isolated) network issues aside, I'd definitely pick this game up if I were you.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2014

Trials Fusion doesn't change up the formula drastically from its predecessors, but adds some nuances that helps it distinguish itself. It might come with a few graphical hiccups that detract from its beauty, but the fun factor eclipses any of these issues.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2014

Trials Fusion is a great new entry into the franchise and marks a proper arrival of the series onto the new consoles. Its visuals are sharp, its gameplay is better than ever, and its few downsides don't prevent it from once again getting players addicted to its physics-based racing. The loading times are a bit long and navigating the interface isn't that great, but it's still worth it.

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Apr 17, 2014

Trials Fusion brings the series' addictive and challenging physics-based gameplay to new platforms and the next console generation, and does so with style. Though the loose FMX tricks system underwhelms and a few features are MIA at launch, it's still a huge serving of tightly-honed thrills, humiliating spills, compelling competition and user generated content that deserves your attention.

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8.8 / 10.0
Apr 15, 2014

If you have a tendency to rage quit and throw controllers, Trials Fusion may not be for you. Sometimes satisfaction is only found after hours of failed attempts, but the ease of giving it "just one more try" can be absolutely engrossing. The game's outside-the-box goals are brimming with creativity, and the uncompromising level design pushes you to keep digging deeper to conquer every roadblock in your path.

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PC Gamer
Top Critic
85 / 100
Apr 16, 2014

Fusion's thrill isn't in leaping a yawning chasm as a jet screams below, but in simply clearing an overhanging ledge.

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8.5 / 10.0
Apr 15, 2014

Latest entry in popular side-scrolling motorbike franchise gets glitzier graphics, a more robust track editor, extreme tricks, and an ATV.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jun 3, 2014

All in all, I find myself very happy with what Trials Fusion has to offer, and I think this is a fantastic first entry for the new generation of console hardware. It's a great-looking game with active background and foreground elements, fantastic track designs, an interesting future aesthetic, and some strangely appealing narrative pieces provided by the quirky AI announcer. While the general Trials mechanics are largely unchanged, outside of the misstep represented by the tricks system, I've never seen much need for improvement in the series' basic controls and physics. RedLynx certainly hasn't lost any of the ideas that make the Trials series so much fun to play and has escalated the track design in a way that makes this game feel fresh and new, despite being the 13th entry in a decade-old series.

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8.3 / 10.0
Oct 18, 2015

Bells and whistles now as standard!

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IGN
Top Critic
8.2 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2014

Trials Fusion's precision controls and exacting challenge make it a great pickup for leaderboard perfectionists.

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8.2 / 10.0
Apr 18, 2014

The next generation Trials title is here bringing us the future. The same old motorcycles are back in the future for some reason, funny though they definitely fit in.

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81 / 100
Apr 23, 2014

The Trials series keeps expanding, making you wonder where it will go next. As for the present, this is still a wonderfully fun and engaging game that will delight and frustrate you in equal measures.

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8 / 10
Apr 15, 2014

Perhaps that was always likely to happen after a game as complete as Trials Evolution, and I have still spent a dozen hours enjoying everything Fusion has to offer and can't imagine anyone finding much fault with any of it. All the same, I hope that whenever RedLynx returns to the drawing board in future, it does so with more of a daredevil heart. We've had enough evolution - what Trials needs next is revolution.

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Apr 16, 2014

Trials Fusion delivers more of what you want: addictively challenging obstacle courses, complete with precision controls and highly competitive leaderboards. The futuristic setting and subplot don't add much, but they (usually) don't detract from the fun either.

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8 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2014

Still a great series, but not much is changing with this new iteration

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