Trine Review on Play Devil

October 7th, 2009 Posted by Alex Beech

Managing conjure memories of classic two-dimensional platformers Trine was I game I have been looking forward to for some time. Having hit the PC space some time ago the game was delayed for release on PS3 due to the discovery of a bug at the last minute. But it recently hit the PSN store and thanks to Play Devil (a site I review for) securing a code from Frozenbyte I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on a copy soon after.

Here is a quick extract from my review of this lovely little platformer…

“Trine is an evolution of the classic platformer; what could have happened if graphics and physics had continued to advance, but designers never wanted to evolve beyond the 2D plane. It takes a familiar format and expands it in every direction to produce a deceivingly complex game.

Despite its 2D gameplay Trine uses 3D graphics and Nvidia’s PhysX engine to produce its environments and puzzles. This has allowed the Finnish developer Frozenbyte to add a beauty and depth to each stage of the game that is reminiscent of a lavish child’s fantasy novel.”

Read the full article here.