TrackMania Turbo

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Summary

Trackmania offers you the ultimate arcade racing universe where everything is about reaching the perfect racing time. Test your skills in over 200 tracks, experience immediate fun by challenging your friends at home (offline splitscreen) or online. The competition lasts forever: design and share your own tracks with other players in the Trackbuilder!


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TrackMania Turbo Reviews & Ratings

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Review by SenorKoquonfaes [user]
December 19, 2021

Trackmania Turbo is broken up into 4 different environments: Canyon, Valley, Lagoon and Stadium. Each environment offers up it’s own uniqueTrackmania Turbo is broken up into 4 different environments: Canyon, Valley, Lagoon and Stadium. Each environment offers up it’s own unique atmosphere and track designs. I can safely say I love the environments for Canyon, Valley and Lagoon. Canyon has you racing through areas that remind me of the Grand Canyon. Valley has you racing through forested areas that feel like they belong somewhere in the European country side, and Lagoon has you hurtling through rollercoaster style tracks with a tropical beach backdrop. The Stadium tracks aren’t bad, but the environment just felt a bit too sterile for my liking.The individual tracks themselves offer up an incredibly surreal racing environment. The goal is to simply race from the starting line to finish line as quickly as possible. This is easier said than done for a lot of the tracks in this game and it won’t be long before Trackmania Turbo’s difficulty rears it’s ugly, rage-inducing head. There will be corners that need to be hit at the optimal driving line, drifting around them at just the right angle in order to maintain your speed. There will be walls that offer up what feels like an almost 90 degree banking as you try and not slide off by going to slow or fly off the edge with too much speed. There will be rollercoaster style loops and corkscrews that are disorienting and difficult to navigate and there will be massive jumps that will need to be hit with the right amount of speed for a smooth landing instead of taking an awkward bounce off the road. While all these challenges culminate into quite the spectacle, I found myself either crashing into walls or barriers, flying off the track trying to drift around a narrow corner or crashing and loosing speed on a rollercoaster loop and falling into the abyss. Each track has checkpoints that scattered throughout the race and you can revert to the last checkpoint by pressing the “Y” button. While this sounds like an anti-frustration mechanic in theory, in practice, I found this feature to be almost useless. Firstly, most the tracks are all fairly short. Some of the early tracks can be finished in around 15 seconds, some of the longer ones take about 30-40 seconds. There are a hand full of circuit races that take a bit longer and perhaps this is where that checkpoint system has value. Aside from that, you’re better off hitting the “B” button to restart the race. Second of all, restarting at last checkpoint doesn’t reset the timer to what it was when you hit that checkpoint, the clock keeps running. Do that enough times and you won’t register a fast enough time to progress to the next series of tracks. It may not always be ideal, but I found the more expedient method was to just restart the race. To that point, if you need to restart or load your last checkpoint, there is no load time. The game will immediately drop you back to where you’re suppose to be. No need to stare a loading screen, stewing in your own rage.Trackmania Turbo features 200 tracks that all need to be unlocked in the game’s campaign mode. Each of the four environment’s tracks are broken up into White, Green, Blue, Red and Black series. The “White” maps are generally the easiest, the Blue and Red maps offer up a more healthy challenge and the Black tracks are absolutely merciless. The game rates you on a Bronze, Silver, Gold or a green Trackmaster medal (meaning you beat the track developer’s time) depending on how fast you make your way through the race. You’ll need at least a Silver medal on each track in a series in order to progress in the game. Naturally, this becomes harder to pull off once you start getting into the Blue and Red tracks. I personally capped my play through of this game at the Red Canyon series, since my budget for Xbox controllers can only be so much before it starts eating into other expenses in my life. There’s going to be a fair amount of trial-and-error to a lot of the tracks, to the point where hitting the “B” button to restart the race was almost instinctual for me if I hit a wall or took a corner in a **** way.Like most arcade racers these days, you might expect some customization tools for your cars. Aside from it’s paint job and decals you can’t customize your car in any meaningful way.Performance wise, this game is great, even on Vanilla Xbox One. It maintains a steady frame rate with no stuttering or lagging. I didn’t experience any crashes-to-dashboard, texture pop-in or streaming. Having no in game loads screens when restarting or reverting to last checkpoint is a godsend, all things considered.Overall, Trackmania Turbo is a fun, challenging, surreal arcade racer that offers up decent replay value and longevity. It’s tough to recommend this game to casual arcade racing fans due to the game’s difficulty. But for any arcade racers that are up for a decent, rewarding challenge, than Trackmania Turbo is a great game for you.

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Review by mulvavroop [user]
October 15, 2020

To me, this is a trance game - you blank out and just go with it. And that's good. If you like time trials, if you enjoy improving your times,To me, this is a trance game - you blank out and just go with it. And that's good. If you like time trials, if you enjoy improving your times, finding the perfect line, you probably already know the Trackmania series. I never play on computers, so this is my first experience with Trackmania. As the competitive players say of it, "find your line and commit to it." Very much like the Wipeout series or F-Zero, in terms of speed and track design - the sense of speed is jaw dropping.The design, incorporating Japanese and Western ideas (gigantic floating pink sprinkle donuts, blimps with Kanji on them) is amazing. The detail rendered at this speed and frame rate is basically perfect. It's gorgeous.The physics are unique, I'm assuming this is a Trackmania feature. Nothing handles real-world; these are surfaces and vehicles from another planet. And all of the 200 levels present hazards only many attempts will finally overcome. You think the rocks are just throwing themselves at you, until you realize you've just not memorized the track and found your line yet.Not interested in track building and have no idea if online is still available, but I don't care. The 200 time trials, which start out hard enough and slowly become brutal, is all I need. And when you get your first Trackmaster medal, which means you beat the developer's best time, and that medal's green and comes after the gold medal, it's just awesome. The competitive players go for Super Trackmaster, basically trying to get world #1 times and keeping them.Oh finally, this game is all about having a light touch. You can't wham your analog stick to make a turn. It's great at teaching you a light hand on the controller and learning how to play a game elegantly. I don't say this lightly - but with the light touch, muscle memory and plain fun of it, Trackmania Turbo can't be recommended too highly.

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Review by superpyro296 [user]
August 13, 2018

Le jeu est certainement bon. En général, l'expérience est plaisante et nous pouvons profiter en tout de 200 circuits ce qui est beaucoup deLe jeu est certainement bon. En général, l'expérience est plaisante et nous pouvons profiter en tout de 200 circuits ce qui est beaucoup de contenu !Toutefois, ça ne veut pas dire que vous pourrez rouler sur les 200 circuits car le niveau de difficulté augmente beaucoup en progressant et il faut souvent avoir eu toutes les médailles d'argent afin de passer à la prochaine étape et pour les derniers 40 circuits, il faut toutes les médailles d'or !Après plusieurs heures de jeu, je suis au circuit #110 et les courses sont difficiles et parfois frustrantes. Attendez-vous à parfois recommencer le même parcours 50 fois et plus :) Il faut souvent avoir le parfait timing et avoir une trajectoire 100% droite sinon la course doit être recommencée dès le début. Ce n'est pas un jeu de course standard où on a le droit à l'erreur !Je dirais que j'ai surtout aimé les premiers circuits mais que par la suite, c'est davantage un défi où on doit mémoriser des séquences précises pour passer à travers le niveau. Je dois nuancer en disant que certains niveaux plus avancés restent très intéressants

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Review by Luka1998010 [user]
July 10, 2018

Thanks to Ubisoft,one of the best arcade racer franchise of all time is ruined.-No car skin support-No car paint/decal editor-WeirdThanks to Ubisoft,one of the best arcade racer franchise of all time is ruined.-No car skin support-No car paint/decal editor-Weird handling-Ruined track editor+Interesting stages

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Review by Nasos [user]
January 24, 2018

First impressions are goodOverall 8/10But for split screen and VR section I will give it 10 of 10Since split screen it's rare nowadays

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Game Information
Release Date March 22, 2016
Publisher Nadeo
Content Rated E (Everyone)
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Player Perspectives First person, Third person, Virtual Reality
Genres Racing, Arcade
Themes Action, Sandbox, Open world
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift