Trials Of The Blood Dragon

RedLynx’s mash-up is a serious misfire.

- Chris schilling

Platform racer series Trials has never taken itself too seriously. It’s been increasingly indulging its weird side lately, however, edging away from a stripped-down, mud ’n’ grit style and heading for grandstanding stunts, pyrotechnics and all-round silliness. As a spin-off that inserts all that into the ’80s action-movie universe of Far Cry 3, Blood Dragon seems to make sense. Enough, certainly, to make it Kind Of A Big Deal when Ubisoft revealed it would be available as soon as its E3 conference was over.