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[Zzzlol94]

More of like a heads-up/optimism topic than a review, I'm still optimistic, but it could turn very abruptly around on the PC launch. And I am on purpose ignoring many current issues, games are playable after the launch week y'know (which is something we have to deal with nowadays and there's nothing we can do *sigh*).
Got to admit, I both love and hate Evo right now. Fusion isn't a bad game (yet), it just happens to be the sequel to the biggest smash hit in the franchise and it's slightly different. Which makes it look bad. Yes, I know, Fusion doesn't have the same 'soul' as Evo has. Evo was cartoony in a way, Fusion is much cleaner and a bit more serious, even though FMX is just silly, and some of the challenges, and penguins (silly me).

Fusion doesn't have the best beginner to medium tracks. They just can't match the overall quality of the driving lines and the memorable tracks of those in Evo. But Fusion got really good Hard and Extreme tracks and the difficulty live up to their names now (Progression!). Most of the Hard tracks got amazingly fun driving lines and also look really good. I appreciate that more, because I can now enjoy grinding out the Hard tracks to get better times (except for one single track that I absolutely hate), instead of mostly being able to do everything but that in Evo. So having both games, I can fully enjoy all difficulty tiers for ingame tracks. One thing that would've really disappointed me, would be if I could easily get through the Extremes when having 0 faults on all tracks in Evo without anything further than that. Having 100+ faults on Inferno IV feels great, because then I know I can further improve somewhere. And that's what makes Trials fun (at least, for 99% of the players), the 'sense' of progression. Right now I can't care about FMX because I'm not enjoying it at all (because of having access to Platinum medals), which I will come back to in my final verdict after the PC launch.

Playing on the 360, it's feels quite different compared the PC Beta. But knowing that the game is a lot more dependant than before and the 360 is getting old, I'm going to stay optimistic and wait until PC launch, before going absolutely mental on how the tyres often bounces, gets stuck, never grips and glitches out. I've had a lot more issues with that on the 360 compared to PC on those tracks that are available for both systems.

[sundaygloom]

i initially was disappointed in the easy and medium tracks, it was basically one run through to get gold on all of them. but once i unlucked the platinum im enjoying them so much more, a platinum run on these, atleast to me is proving to be rather challenging. now that im learning the lines and playing them a bunch of time i appreciate them more.

the hard tracks are awesome, they were easy to gold but platinum is going to take a long time.
never been a big fan of extremes though, ill get through them once and probably never play them again. theyre more tedious and frustrating than fun to me.

the fmx events are alot of fun to me to, im actually enjoying that alot.