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Trials Frontier Is Cult of Mac's iOS Game of the Week
Mar 11, 2025
Trials Frontier Is Cult of Mac's iOS Game of the Week
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this is Rob for Cult of Mac now I'm not
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usually a big fan of the whole do it
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over and over until you get it right
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genre of games typified by the trial
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series of games but this one has me
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hooked developed by Red links and now
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published by Ubisoft the latest version
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of the game is the first on mobile
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Trials Frontier you can grab it for free
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now on your iPad or iPhone like all the
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other installments in the series
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Frontiers is all about piloting a
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motorcycle with a ragd doll Rider
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through increasingly intense and tracks
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with jumps loops and environmental
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hazards this game brings the motorcycle
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rider to a western themed near future
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dystopia tasking you with adding thrust
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breaking and leaning forward and back to
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control your Rider's balance and to make
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him do wicked tricks midair you'll have
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to get the hang of rotating your bike
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rider right and left in order to stay on
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the tracks as well and you'll get a
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score based on your time
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as well as the number of sick tricks as
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you can pull off this free-to-play game
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offers a forgiving energy mechanic in
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the form of fuel for your bike you'll
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upgrade your cycle over time as well
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using inapp earn coins which takes time
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you can also speed things up with gems
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obviously the harder to earn current
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currency of the game and it's a familiar
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overlay if you played free-to-play
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titles in the past and it doesn't feel
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too egregious there were missions and
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quests that frankly kept me interested
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in the game longer than I have been
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before in this type of game figuring out
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when to lead forward when to lean back
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when to just crank up the throttle it's
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pretty fun in small doses and the
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missions and bits of story break up the
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trials just enough to keep from halting
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all the failure that has to happen in
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order to get better at the game the
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visuals are gorgeous the bike's physics
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feels spoton and every time I crash it
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feels like my own stupid fault and not
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an artifact of poor design or
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unpredictable physics models ultimately
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trials is a game I can play for a few
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minutes at a time and I feel like I've
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accomplished something and had fun and I
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can move on and all of that that's why
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it's our M Mac iOS game of the week
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Trials Frontier
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