As a fan of Trackmania I am really disappointed. There are many problems with the game but I am not sure what I should start with.
First of all, if you never played Trackmania games before, you may actually enjoy Turbo.
This game introduces absolutely nothing new that's worth checking out besides new environment called Lagoon, which is actually a mix of original environments ofAs a fan of Trackmania I am really disappointed. There are many problems with the game but I am not sure what I should start with.
First of all, if you never played Trackmania games before, you may actually enjoy Turbo.
This game introduces absolutely nothing new that's worth checking out besides new environment called Lagoon, which is actually a mix of original environments of Island (super fast cars) and Alpine (or Snow, high maneuverability cars and wooden segments which force you to drift), the new thing is electromagnetic segments which prevent you from falling down and jumping, which is a fine addition.
The rest of new things which Nadeo (probably being forced by publisher Ubisoft) is completely useless and was for sure time-consuming during development:
The addition of starting the race by being detached from helicopter means absolutely nothing more in terms of gameplay than just animation.
The new comments that you hear during race are ridiculous and frustrating. Trackmania always was easy to pick and hard to master, where playing hard tracks you had to replay them dozens of times. Now with every checkpoint or touching the barriers you hear that "you have to be better next time" and "You will never make it". Really? That's so much demotivating, it seems like the game just want to make sure I will never play it again.
Trackmania 2 environments (Canyon, Valley and Stadium) received new car models that change absolutely nothing other than textures (btw. IMO, the old cars were better-looking) and some segments were remade (and by that I mean that they are not prettier or changed in terms of gameplay, but just textures, for example Poles in Stadium are now prisms instead of cylinders).
The whole look of the arcade game played on game machine doesn't appeal to my, but maybe that's just me.
The biggest issue IMO is the lack of players playing it online, and beside the fact that it is caused by the quality of game, it's also caused because of some sort of instability in the community of Nadeo games. What I mean is that first Trackmanias (Original, Sunrise and Nations) all were independent titles that couldn't be mixed in multiplayer server lists. Trackmania United changed it, now every server could jump between environments every map assuring diversity in gameplay. Then Trackmania 2 arrived (Canyon, Valley and Stadium) which came with ManiaPlanet launcher nad Steam integration, which caused a lot of problems, because you had to launch game through Steam and then through ManiaPlanet. ManiaPlanet allowed you to jump between games but the online servers were still separated, so in order to play different environments you had to quit one Trackmania (for example Canyon) and start new one (for example Valley) and search new servers. The idea was that in future ManiaPlanet would be more integrated system of Nadeo games, but then Ubisoft arrived and made Turbo, compilation of Trackmania 2, which wasn't using ManiaPlanet at all, but instead, it started running on Uplay (in addition to Steam, which Turbo is also sold on). This exact instability if what think killed Trackmania for good.
The last thing I want to mention is that Turbo was released on 3 platforms (PC, Xbox One and PS4) where older Trackmania games were never released on consoles, so for the console gamers it's a perfect opportunity to try out the famous Trackmania.
The problem is that the online community is incredibly small on all platforms and the game does not allow cross-platform servers. meaning that if you are looking for online competition, this game is not for you, as you'll find server with 20 players and nothing more than that.… Expand
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