Is PSN's Urban Trials more than a Trials rip-off?

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If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery then it's highly likely there was a swell of blushing cheeks in RedLynx's Helsinki office when Urban Trials was properly unveiled last year. A side-scrolling race against the clock that hurls a motocross bike through a series of improbable obstacles, it's not exactly hard to pinpoint where Polish developer Tate Media got the idea for its PSN-bound game.
"We've played Trials HD, although we haven't really played Trials Evolution," confesses Tate's general manager Wojtek Bilinski. "I can't say that we weren't inspired by it in some way. But we also played a lot of other Trials games from the '80s and '90s."
It's true that RedLynx didn't really invent the genre - Sega arguably got their first with 1976's Moto-Cross (a game that, in what remains one of the most bizarre tie-ins, was rebranded as Fonz in deference to the Happy Days character) while Miyamoto defined the genre with Excitebike - but they're most definitely the masters of it.
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