In solo play, you’re attempting to match or beat the bronze, silver, gold, or hidden ‘trackmaster’ medal times, which can come down to attempting to shave 00.00.02 seconds off your time.
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Much of the PC audience will be aware how Trackmania works, but for those who don’t it’s essentially a narrow-margin time attack racer on (mostly) short and (often) kind of insane courses. Luckily, the local and online multiplayer modes do allow access to all but the very hardest set of tracks across the four Canyon, Valley, Lagoon and Stadium environments, so it’s been possible for me to at least drive on quite a few of them (albeit not exactly raking in the gold medals). Trials: Fusion gave me a similar dilemma it was a choice between covering this game based on incomplete knowledge of every course, or not reviewing it at all. This does not technically comply to the letter of the PC Invasion “play to completion” review policy. Doing so involves getting a gold medal (or better, there’s one above gold) on each and every track, which is quite possibly beyond my skills as a driver.
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That decision has removed some of Trackmania’s rougher edges and made Turbo a more approachable, ‘normal’ game but in doing so has somewhat sanitised or outright removed some of the anarchic aspects which catapulted the series to cult PC status.īefore exploring those changes in greater depth, I should note that Trackmania Turbo’s uncompromising (but admirably punishing) approach to track unlocks means I’ve not played and completed every single course in campaign mode. The developer has actually been reasonably up-front about the nature of the PC version, confirming on Steam that the reason for omissions like dedicated servers is because this one is “a console game ported to PC.” It’s probably fair to say, though, that this is more of a major push for that market. Trackmania Turbo is not the series’ first time on consoles (there was a Wii one). That particular game is also housed within the curious Maniaplanet front-end (Nadeo’s own Mania-game-centric platform), which allows for some pretty chaotic, anything-goes multiplayer activities, but may also be considered a bit of a barrier to entry.
Trackmania 2 is actually still an ongoing enterprise on PC, with the ‘Lagoon’ tracks due in the near future. Nadeo’s unashamedly bizarre Trackmania series is one that can be difficult to keep up with, because the strangeness even extends to the manner and framing of their release.
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