What do you do when it's Monday? Well obviously you try to wake up, put some clothes on you and leave for work. After you drink your morning coffee, you check your e-mail and then wait for the grass to become green. Because it's Monday!!! And nothing works on Monday except www.miniclip.com and its huge database of free flash games. There is one game that stood out and had a huge impact to the site. Trial Bike, an arcade game with a bike and a stuntman, developed by a Finnish team called RedLynx. Years have passed from the first Trial Bike game and many sequels and fan-made games have appeared using the same receipt: a short track full of obstacles which has to be completed with that bike using only four buttons - the directional keys. Somehow Redlynx decided to give up the so popular flash platform and recreate that popular and addictive game for the PC users using next generation graphical effects. Using the same distribution method, the game can be downloaded from www.redlynxtrials.com and tested as a trial version, for the full version a single serial number being enough to unlock it. Of course, if you pay for it.

The game features the same stuntman and his indestructible but flexible bike, who has to complete a number of tracks full of obstacles. If you remember the old versions, there's nothing new in terms of gameplay, but you get the same addictive feeling in a 3D environment, with an improved physics engine. There are different camera angles for gameplay and replays (including a first person view) which shows off the action. Light spots and flames give that extra guidance in a dark environment which looks great but it's not suitable for this kind of game.

But who cares as long as you spend hours maybe just to perform one jump. And most of the time this is the cause of that improved but sometimes unrealistic physics engine. Compared to the original game, in Trials 2 the biker moves are much more intuitive, but his force is exaggerated. His movements are not fluid, causing the bike to flip from one wheel to the other, which in low speed maneuvers becomes frustrating. The back fork of the bike not only has an up-side-down movement but also a slightly front-back movement which in real life it's impossible. Not to mention the unbreakable suspensions which endure extremely high jumps, but have problems when you flip the bike. In any case, the physics engine brings at some point funny moments which may lower your frustrations. This is the first time when the biker is given a rag-doll effect. Every time you crash, the biker will stumble and fall and then stumble again, flip and fall until he will be knocked unconscious.

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