The game delivers what you have come to expect from a Trials game, but with a modern presentation. However, it is that modern touch that also works against Rising. Picking tracks from the colorful and way too crowded world map can be confusing, you can't select the ghosts you want to race against, progression is weirdly gated, etc...

Furthermore, no single track from the base game or DLC comes close in difficulty to the harder tracks in Fusion, and it takes way too long to get to the Hard and Extreme tracks, making the campaign quite boring initially.

The addition of the University of Trials is genious, and I think is one of the reasons why newcomers to the series should start with Rising.