For a measly five bucks, Trials HD players can nearly double their available courses and tack on 50 gamerscore points between three brand new achievements. Trials HD was a massive 2009 success as far as Xbox Live Arcade games are concerned. With the Trials HD Big Pack’s 35 new tracks featuring all sorts of new physics elements, this instant classic will carry on entertaining and challenging gamers well into the new year.

Everybody loves new maps, new courses, new tracks… Anything that can provide die-hard fans of any game with more of what they love. Unfortunately not all developers posess the technique necessary to deliver more of the same minus the stale flavor. In other words, Trials HD creators RedLynx are among the few who successfully debut downloadable content. The 23 new racing courses alone make the Big Pack worth the 400 MS points; inside these new tracks are experiences previously unatainable in any trials realm – low-gravity riding, wind current cruising, and trippy 1-bit traveling. Beginner and easy difficulties are left alone, meaning amped difficulty throughout the 12 medium, 9 hard, and 2 extreme tracks. Inferno II will seem like a joke in comparison.

Skill games got some sweet attention, too. The 12 new challenges totals to two skill games per challenge type, with slight variations in each. I prefer the latest slew of “just one more try” conquests as opposed to Trials HD’s original offerings, but both are entertaining and the break from standard fare will increase replayability once you tire of the new courses. Win win win!

What with the installation of bizarre physics in some new tracks comes an inherent ability to use said physics in the level editor – a real treat for the creative-minded and the severely bored alike. And since the Title Update increases storage space for user created content, you’re best off parking your bike in the garage; you’ll be hammering out new levels like mad (wo)men. RedLynx can only create so much, and they’ve done quite a lot with the Big Pack, and thanks to their open-eared developers, riders will enjoy what they’ve most requested – mid to high range difficulty and the skill games necessary for painting new leaderboards. I don’t know about you, but I’ll be riding right into Spring.