With enough practice, your battles evolve to have more thrill and intricacy than you’d think possible with 8-bit graphics - you can catch your enemy’s arrows from the air, or even steal them right out of their quiver if you can get close enough. A magnificent fusion of the proven, no-frills Trials formula based on ultra-addictive competition with the cutting edge of graphics and social networking. It sports a great co-op campaign mode, but for us, the fun was always in the competitive deathmatches, in which up to four players compete in a bow and arrow battle royale. With its glimmering vision of what our future holds were technology and nature to co-exist, combined with today's most exciting and popular motorsport, Trials Fusion has retained and enhanced the essential features from its best-selling, critically acclaimed predecessors, Trials Evolution and Trials HD. Alone in career mode or with your friends in a frenzy multiplayer mode, string together. Towerfall is a retro-looking indie game designed specifically for local multiplayer. Trials is back for even more fun Trials Fusion melds the classic, proven Trials formula of simple yet addictive competition with the social and visual breakthroughs of the new futurist and high-tech world of Trials Fusion.
This is truer of Towerfall: Ascension than any other title I can recall - a game which, over the two year period it reigned over my student house, wreaked havoc on our housemate relations.
One hallmark of a great local-multiplayer game is its ability to take a group of people who very much like each other and reduce them to red-faced children, bitter in defeat and undignified in victory.