Trials: Rising devs show off over-the-top motorbike stunts

“Eat dirt. Taste victory.” That’s an apt tagline for Trials: Rising, the zany dirt-bike racing game being developed by RedLynx and Ubisoft Kiev. If you fail and land in the dirt, you get up and try it again until you win.

Trials: Rising comes out on the consoles and PC in February, but we got a good look at it at publisher Ubisoft’s pre-Gamescom press event. It’s a casual racing game, because anybody can pick up and play it, but it takes some hardcore skill to be good at it. I played it enough to see how challenging it was and how hilarious it was in throwing over-the-top challenges at the player. I embedded my gameplay, terrible as it is, to give you an idea of what it’s like to play the game.