With time attack, championship and set lap options, you’ll find yourself on tracks against a huge number of online competitors. Just as fast and smooth as everything that you can find in the solo modes, online racing in TrackMania has been well actioned. Now, whilst there are a few server issues in play, TMT may frustrate yet again, but should you manage to join one of the huge number of online matchups that are in place, then you’ll be treated to some spectacular timed racing. Initially you may find that the draw of the worldwide, national and regional leaderboards that have been cunningly placed into the heart of the action are too much to ignore, but eventually you’ll want to find the limit of your skills, the realisation that you’ll struggle to beat ‘that’ friend and the need to go hit the online scene. And busy is exactly what they will have you doing.
For away from the campaign are numerous other options to keep you busy.
Thankfully though, no matter what your skill level, that doesn’t mean your time with this arcade speedrunner is over. If you don’t come with the requisite skills, and harbour little hope of them ever appearing, then you may wonder what all the fuss is about with TMT. Think of some of the manic tracks that are found in the latter stages of Trials Fusion and you’ll quickly realise why much of the campaign will be inaccessible to many. It is about this time however when you’ll begin to find TrackMania Turbo more than frustrating. At least that is in the campaign, for thankfully you’ll find everything unlocked and ready to roll in the arcade modes. Even then you may still find that many of the 200 tracks are completely out of your reach. It won’t take you long to complete all of the simplistic White stages, but should you wish to progress through the Green and Blue stages, into Red and eventually onto the hardest of the hard Black circuits, complete with tracks that are seemingly in place to confuse the hell out of you, then you’ll have to go back time and time again. Just as you think you’ve bagged yourself enough medals and unlocked enough tracks, you’ll find that TMT will be forcing you back into the career some more in order to better your times and to garner bigger, shinier medals and the opportunity to unlock everything on offer.
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It is something of a necessity too as by the time you start drifting your way around the Canyon Grand Drift circuits, or flying up and down the hills in the Down & Dirty Valley, you’ll need to be fully versed in exactly how to master the simple controls and your not so simple car. The International Stadium kicks things off with the first few tracks on the easiest stages and this is a great place to hone your skills.
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Split across four unique environments, with a specific car in place for each stage, the tracks are beautifully colourful beasts that will keep pulling you back for more, if not in an attempt to best your own slack times, but for full bragging rights with friends around the world. Do you have what it takes to grab that bronze medal? Can you attempt the same track further times in order to bag the silver? Are you some kind of crazed speed freak who loves repetition and bettering themselves? It is only then when you’ll find the gold medals making their way to your bank and TrackMania Turbo excelling. With a ton of luminescent signs helping you along the way, giving a slight heads up to what is to come, what you need to avoid, and the best route for progress, TrackMania Turbo basically boils down to you and the clock in a test of nerves. But until you do, it’ll be full throttle at all times, with a dab of the brakes only being needed should you need to slightly correct things, both when on the track and in the air. Your cars are twitchy rocket powered beasts that only ever let up if you hit a well placed engine cut off section of the track. You’ll never know what is coming up next and so your reactions will need to be on point throughout. From your initial drop into the action – quite literally – you’ll find yourself and your skills being pushed to the limit as you hit banked curves, full on loops, jumps and tracks that have quite obviously been designed by some kind of rollercoasting sadist. Taking control of one of four vehicles, TMT throws you round more than 200 tracks in what can only be described as ‘Hot Wheels on steroids’. It’s fast, it’s frantic and in its rawest form, is absolutely nuts. Instead TrackMania Turbo focuses massively on time trialing to such a point that you’ll quickly forget that you are given little chance to really show how robust your racing is.