Trackmania

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4.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 152 Ratings

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  1. Reppa
    May 16, 2023
    3
    The game is good, but it supposed to be : Cross Platform - Cross Play - Cross Progression. Before the release on console, cause of the lack of information, i've bought the 3 year club access on pc, cause it's ubisoft connect,

    Game is now out on PS5 and i have to REBUY for the Club access... No thank ...This i why i give the game a 3. Very disapointed by nadeo and ubisoft, and the lack    The game is good, but it supposed to be : Cross Platform - Cross Play - Cross Progression. Before the release on console, cause of the lack of information, i've bought the 3 year club access on pc, cause it's ubisoft connect,

    Game is now out on PS5 and i have to REBUY for the Club access... No thank ...This i why i give the game a 3. Very disapointed by nadeo and ubisoft, and the lack of clarity, make it look like really a scam !!

    They're is now way to view friends time on race, compare, time, nothing, and if you don't buy you have no way to view other player time.    … Expand
  2. Skimsak
    Apr 24, 2023
    2
    "I've been playing Trackmania since 2006, starting with the ESWC world cup. It was a beautiful, simple, crowded, glorious, and exciting game. I played it for years and migrated to Nations Forever, and then to United.

    With Nations Forever, the devs made their first evil move by turning the game into a painful experience for "unpaid" account owners. They had to wait as a spectator for one    "I've been playing Trackmania since 2006, starting with the ESWC world cup. It was a beautiful, simple, crowded, glorious, and exciting game. I played it for years and migrated to Nations Forever, and then to United.

    With Nations Forever, the devs made their first evil move by turning the game into a painful experience for "unpaid" account owners. They had to wait as a spectator for one map after every four, and couldn't even chat during that period. So if you have a team training, or WR hunting, you had to go through this process every 5th map or restart and lose your heat and focus. Terrible.

    Somewhere around this time, if I'm not mistaken, Ubisoft bought Nadeo, the developer.

    Many years later, Trackmania 2 was released. It was somewhat more rigid in terms of content, but it showed signs of fragmentation. The game base launcher was separated into sections for different launches for each game. The menus became somewhat cluttered, but it was still navigable. It was buggy at first, but they fixed it over time. However, forced shadows raised a lot of concerns among players and even made some tracks unplayable.

    And now, Trackmania 2020. It was advertised as great, with a serious-looking art style. However, Ubisoft turned this installment into a yearly subscription. Yes, you could still play for free, but you would be prevented from many aspects of the game. It's awful because even if you pay for it, like me, there is almost nothing else you can do but to mingle with poorly designed and splattered content, clogged menus, and very hard-to-navigate content, literally IPTV style menus, many weird stuff here and there, clubs, inexplicable competitions all over the place where you can't tell whether they are official or not, a handful of internet streamers' names everywhere, in-game ads that are over the top, childish texture mapping, very bad texture choice, and sometimes players can't even tell whether they are on ice, magnet, or plastic surfaces. Even the official soundtrack feels like it was made for teaching babies their first PC game. It's a very, very awful experience, and players are separated from each other. Chat is restricted to subscription payers, and you can't even have the glorious, colorful, and creative nicknames you used to have. Your only choice is your default Ubisoft account name that appears in plain white on the scoreboard. The ranking system is also obnoxious, as your ranking is determined by the skill of the other two players in your team in a 3v3 match.

    There are only two good sides to this game. The first is the default car skins, which are good and show effort. The other is the Royal mode, where you can at least have a little fun, but that's all. I've subscribed for a standard account, and I thought there was more to it with CLUB access subscription, because the game seemed so dead and literally a soup of unsorted content. I have paid 3x the amount I've paid for the standard access, YES, they still charge full amount even if you have paid for standard just before. Ubisoft is THAT hungry about this game. I was wrong... literally NOTHING changed other than having access to CLUB content, which are basically custom in-game rooms that has no damn specialty ever. I felt ripped right from the beginning.

    The official maps are plain and dreadful, and all the other ordinary map content is shovelfeeded into your face. There are clubs, even they do not know what the hell they are good for. Most of the time in gameplay, your brain twists, even if you know the map you're playing, you actually hesitate in each occasion for there is uncertainty and unnecessary stuff going around everywhere. Devs stole many ideas from DISTANCE, and got the Trackmania very close to that childish car soccer game, killing its characteristic lines.

    In conclusion, this game is dead, soulless, and when it died, it shat and vomited many colorful adversaries. Ubisoft is in charge of killing another good franchise."    … Expand
  3. Shretzen
    Jun 7, 2022
    0
    Das Bezahlmodell ist eine absolute Frechheit. Wir können nur hoffen, daß Nadeonin Zukunft wieder normale Spiele mit einem normalen Bezahlmodell herausbringen wird!
  4. BoltarCavanaugh
    May 25, 2022
    0
    Wow. Making a cool and successful Trackmania game is very very easy:

    - Cool tracks - Track editor - Dedicated servers - have everything working - fair pricing And you're set! Thats all it takes! And YET Ubisoft manages to screw this up totally. Presentation is cheap, you have to pay extra for every little thing. The camera perspective has been screwed up also, by some useless    Wow. Making a cool and successful Trackmania game is very very easy:

    - Cool tracks
    - Track editor
    - Dedicated servers
    - have everything working
    - fair pricing

    And you're set! Thats all it takes!

    And YET Ubisoft manages to screw this up totally. Presentation is cheap, you have to pay extra for every little thing. The camera perspective has been screwed up also, by some useless cockput animation crap thats just distracting and adds nothing to the game. Also, many dedicated servers are not joinable, even tho everything is set up correctly.

    The decline of Trackmania continues.    … Expand
  5. SamCOol
    May 21, 2022
    0
    horrible game do not recomend because the path is unclear game is bad there are just random holes to fall off the map everwhere bad game unclear controlls bad game bad steering and car mechanics bad game and cant poo in the car dont play cuz its bad
  6. yuya88
    Apr 4, 2022
    1
    Buggy game, inconsistent game mechanics, cryptic change logs, useless tutorial maps that explains nothing about various surfaces, blocks, modifiers etc. The UI is so bad, for instance the key binds does not even describe what the keys do like wtf is action key 1,2,3...
    Lacks so many features for a "game as a service" model with a yearly subscription of 10€ (std. ed.) & 30€ (club ed.).    Buggy game, inconsistent game mechanics, cryptic change logs, useless tutorial maps that explains nothing about various surfaces, blocks, modifiers etc. The UI is so bad, for instance the key binds does not even describe what the keys do like wtf is action key 1,2,3...
    Lacks so many features for a "game as a service" model with a yearly subscription of 10€ (std. ed.) & 30€ (club ed.).
    The thing that really annoyed me & made me bother write this review is that, after paying for standard access, I find out that spectating any ghost is included only in the club addition of the game. And spectating ghosts is a frustrating, buggy mess to begin with, so I'm not paying 30€/year for that.
    I'm not a serious TM player or anything but spectating best times seems like a core feature that should have been included with standard access or even starter free access, as it is a feature that would mostly cater to new players.
    The game feels like a very bad mobile freemium scam app, even after paying for std. access.    … Expand
  7. rojcyk
    Jan 2, 2022
    0
    Ok, so you need to pay $30 dollars a year just so you can race against your friends. This sh!t is outright scam.
  8. TurtleShell
    Nov 28, 2021
    4
    Its a game that lets you access it for free but if you actually want to have actual fun and not just a few tracks every 3 months you need to pay!
    If you want to get money just make the game not f2p,not this stupid garbage.
    Only reason I'm giving 4 and not 0 is because gameplay is decent.
  9. Loivado
    Aug 14, 2021
    3
    okish optimized performance
    regular bugs
    no veto system for ranked nor royal

    not understandable tier pay system to play. why even make it in tier levels...
  10. SilbernesGold
    Jun 27, 2021
    3
    I will compare this to tmnf. So, first: Subscription method to make money is extremely scammy. Second: Server crashes, underpopulated servers are common. Third: Game crashes EXTREMELY OFTEN and is not well optimized.
    Just a good idea, destroyed by server and rushed development by ubisoft.
  11. dimasdmm
    Jul 7, 2020
    0
    I've played/bought all the games of Trackmania and I have to say that one of my favourite things was the editor. Now, it seems that I need to pay each year to build new tracks which, in fact, it looks like a scam (please, don't get me wrong, I would pay if it was the full-game). I can't stand a game which is based on a subscription to get all the offline features.
  12. XeiDaMoKa
    Jun 17, 2021
    0
    created an account here just to say **** you and **** your ice, how pathetic
  13. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    Jan 26, 2021
    0
    back to trackmania turbo..
    "I love Trackmania, but they should not have introduced a subscription based model!"
    "ubisoft destroyed another game, nothing new"
    "all they want, is money"
  14. xzez
    Jan 2, 2021
    4
    Meh.

    I have experience with a few other TM games, but i'm not a competitive/serious player. This one feels like a rehash of any of the other TM games (as they all mostly do). The graphics are decent and the game runs well but that's as far as I'd say the improvments over other TM games go. They added a whole bunch of new blocks and modifiers, but the extra variery does not alleviate    Meh.

    I have experience with a few other TM games, but i'm not a competitive/serious player.

    This one feels like a rehash of any of the other TM games (as they all mostly do). The graphics are decent and the game runs well but that's as far as I'd say the improvments over other TM games go. They added a whole bunch of new blocks and modifiers, but the extra variery does not alleviate the fact that they make the racing experince worse. Most of the new modifiers try to add new mechanics at the expense of removing control from your car eg. low friction surfaces, no steering, no engine, fragile. Ice blocks are the worst thing to be added to the game, they feel TERRIBLE; I loath any time I encounter ice on a track. The menus are still rough and not improved over any passed TM games.

    The most eggregious part is the pricing: the game is priced at AAA pricing for a game that is definitely not a AAA game. Not only that, but it's subscription based, so that AAA cost only gets you a 3 year subscription.    … Expand
  15. forevertm
    Dec 16, 2020
    0
    I had been playing the franchise for nearly 6 years. Never had i seen such a money-milking subscription system on such terrible game. Servers that cant handle 8 people and are worse than in 2007 Nations Forever, many known players leaving as well as terrible PR from the game developers, Nadeo, led to the community rebeling against the CEO as well as requiring immediate changes to bothI had been playing the franchise for nearly 6 years. Never had i seen such a money-milking subscription system on such terrible game. Servers that cant handle 8 people and are worse than in 2007 Nations Forever, many known players leaving as well as terrible PR from the game developers, Nadeo, led to the community rebeling against the CEO as well as requiring immediate changes to both approach by the devs as well as improving the overall player experience like menu or removing the notorius acceleration penalty after hitting a wall (made only to punish people that want to drive fast). Totally not worth more time than playing a few maps a week with friends - Nadeo wanted to make an e-sports title, but they made the exact opposite of what they wanted, and cannot accept the fact that community knows better what it wants than themselves.… Expand
  16. Ash_Nakano
    Nov 29, 2020
    0
    So, I downloaded Trackmania (2020), expecting it to be fun. Little did I realize how much it would not be fun it would be from the get go. Subscriptions that Ubisoft likes to call [Access] for a single year. Pay a fee to access content for a year, and once the year's over, you lose access until you pay for it again. Really, Ubisoft?

    Ubisoft apparently tried to defend it by saying    So, I downloaded Trackmania (2020), expecting it to be fun. Little did I realize how much it would not be fun it would be from the get go. Subscriptions that Ubisoft likes to call [Access] for a single year. Pay a fee to access content for a year, and once the year's over, you lose access until you pay for it again. Really, Ubisoft?

    Ubisoft apparently tried to defend it by saying "You're not paying for a subscription, you're paying for the game for a year." Last I checked, that's a very definition of a subscription, idiots. "Oh no, it's not loot boxes, it's surprise mechanics." That's how tone deaf they sound in defending this scummy business model, when features shouldn't be locked behind a subscription for a game like this one, such as advanced map editing, etc., for a game that I can play locally on my machine and don't have to upload tracks for. I mean just look how egregious this is. Ubisoft is calling it DLC on the store page. If it's DLC, it shouldn't be locked behind a subscription. That's like telling me, "Oh, we see you bought this game and enjoy it! It would be awful if you lost access to it soon so pay us to keep playing your locally stored copy of your beloved game!" Eff off Ubisoft. What a scummy, scam-ridden, disgusting practice.

    I've uninstalled Trackmania and cannot recommend it at all. I will not go back to this version, this supposed "reboot" of the Trackmania franchise/series. Folks should just stick with the old Trackmania game like Nations Forever, where you have permanent access to your rightly purchased content.    … Expand
  17. the_pandaprjct
    Oct 9, 2020
    2
    This is the highest score I can give. I'm really dissapointed.

    I started this journew with the TrackMania Nations ESWC (which is the OG best one) and played it like crazy; I'm pretty sure I wasted over 2000 hours on that game. Musics and atmosphere were amazing, songs of it still rings in my ears. After that, Forever came out and it was good; addition of dirt and water were ok and added    This is the highest score I can give. I'm really dissapointed.

    I started this journew with the TrackMania Nations ESWC (which is the OG best one) and played it like crazy; I'm pretty sure I wasted over 2000 hours on that game. Musics and atmosphere were amazing, songs of it still rings in my ears. After that, Forever came out and it was good; addition of dirt and water were ok and added props were amazing for the track customisation. But it wasn't anything near ESWC.

    And after years, this pile of whaever it is came out. Car styilng was changed, ICE ROAD added (what the hell Ubisoft?) and worst of all, subsciption system.

    SUBSCRIPTON SYSTEM. FOR TRACKMANIA Really? Why you guys made it free then? Who asked for offline only and no-customisation system unless you pay up? How can you do something like that? What happened to community driven system? Why? Just why?

    What a disgrace, what a spit on the TrackMania series. There no word on the world that can describe my frustration.

    Congrats Ubisoft, you literally ruined everything, even TrackMania. I'm not going to spend a single penny on Ubisoft games, ever. I'm done.    … Expand
  18. Alinoa
    Sep 14, 2020
    4
    I don't want to criticize the game too much. I just want to note that part of the trackmania is really weak. I didn't like the idea of ​​releasing a new game. After all, there was ManiaPlanet. Why do you need anything else? Of course, there is something that I really liked about this game. It is the ability to fly, roll vertically with a super turbo, and ride bobsled. Note, I didn't likeI don't want to criticize the game too much. I just want to note that part of the trackmania is really weak. I didn't like the idea of ​​releasing a new game. After all, there was ManiaPlanet. Why do you need anything else? Of course, there is something that I really liked about this game. It is the ability to fly, roll vertically with a super turbo, and ride bobsled. Note, I didn't like snow and ice! Riding on such surfaces is crazy.
    I confess, perhaps I was too strict. Anyway the new Trackmania 2020 is a complete failure.    … Expand
  19. ReeseSkyShadow
    Aug 26, 2020
    0
    I am a big fan of TM, played since 2008 when I was 12 years old. Today, I am still playing TMNF and TM2 sporadically. I can just start the game that I bought and play my favorites tracks that I saved for years and join community servers. But this game does not allow that. This game wants you to pay every year. I cannot play my own maps locally. Just let me pay once, play my favorite tracksI am a big fan of TM, played since 2008 when I was 12 years old. Today, I am still playing TMNF and TM2 sporadically. I can just start the game that I bought and play my favorites tracks that I saved for years and join community servers. But this game does not allow that. This game wants you to pay every year. I cannot play my own maps locally. Just let me pay once, play my favorite tracks locally, and join community servers.
    I don't care about your free Nadeo servers. People like me can just create their own like we always do. It's cheaper for you and it lets us better servers, because they do not handle the load.
    The development was clearly rushed at the end to be ready for the Zerator's TM Cup. Cam is buggy, the car is less powerful than a wooden car (Trial, RPG are unplayable now). The menus are awful. Trackmania was made by its community, they stay forever. I checked today and on Steam, there are still 300 people playing 12 years old games, and their still sharing videos on Youtube of the previous game.
    You tried to justify the yearly price by 2 things:
    - new content, we'll have 4 campaigns a year of 25 poor maps. Whereas the community is creating maps: there are 533 232 maps today on TMNF Tm-exchange. Is more than 100 tracks a day over 12 years.
    - keep the development of TM alive.
    We keep Trackmania alive for years. Don't take your players as whales.
    You told us that you wanted to make TM an esports game, why did you choose this DA? And this cam 3? The game is less readable for the player and the viewer.
    I'm not going to buy this game at full price every year.
    Look what Paradox said: "Our DLC model is based on the idea that you pay for new content after the full game release. This helps to finance the further development of the game, which is of gain for all players." You were not honest.
    I'll keep playing the previous TM, keep my server up. But I won't pay every year for a game, that I play sporadically.
    Imagine if I paid 30€ every year for TMUF and TM2. It would have cost me 570€ and I keep playing those games.
    I like TrackMania, we made it together, you wanted to divorce.    … Expand
  20. BingBongDingDon
    Aug 23, 2020
    1
    This game is ubisofts latest scam. I would gladly bought it, but i can't. The only option to play multiplayer and build tracks is to "subscribe" for one year. I miss the days when you actually owned the games you play.
  21. sursurk
    Aug 10, 2020
    0
    Subscription based garbage. Remember when Trackmania Nations was free? The "free" mode in this game is worthless by the way.
  22. VikFro
    Aug 3, 2020
    0
    Don't listen to the negative reviews, it's bombed by people who did not understand what the annual cost of the game means.

    You pay 10 bucks for a FULL YEAR access to the online play (with you friends & random people), and you retain PERMANENT access to all maps unlocked during that year (400+ maps). Also permanent access to the advanced map editor. That's nothing compared to a lot of    Don't listen to the negative reviews, it's bombed by people who did not understand what the annual cost of the game means.

    You pay 10 bucks for a FULL YEAR access to the online play (with you friends & random people), and you retain PERMANENT access to all maps unlocked during that year (400+ maps). Also permanent access to the advanced map editor. That's nothing compared to a lot of other multiplayer games.

    Plus you can thoroughly try the game for free in singleplayer (with some online integrations like rankings and ghost players).

    The game is great, the best racing game both for casuals and pros. Super fun, great community and Nado are good developers who are close to their community and offer them amazing tools and support.    … Expand
  23. ViridianEXE
    Aug 2, 2020
    0
    I don't want to be unfair towards the people who put their time and effort into making this.
    The game looks good, controls well and has potential to be great.
    There are minor technical issues, poor performance on some maps despite more than adequate hardware is one of them. The menu also isn't great. A lot of terms are just unfitting for what you're actually about to click. I have to    I don't want to be unfair towards the people who put their time and effort into making this.
    The game looks good, controls well and has potential to be great.
    There are minor technical issues, poor performance on some maps despite more than adequate hardware is one of them.

    The menu also isn't great. A lot of terms are just unfitting for what you're actually about to click.
    I have to ask: what's wrong with the term "Servers"? Everybody knows what it is and what you can expect when clicking on it. Instead you have Club Rooms.

    Also, the player page (so the player profile) isn't even working at the time of me writing this.
    It's not broken, it's just not finished, or to quote the Website:
    "It is still an work in progress, but you can already manage your Dedicated Server Accounts and view the maps you submitted to Map Review."
    It's not important, but I expect games to be released in a finished state, this includes external features like player profiles, too.

    But that's not really why the game deserves a rating of 0, so far the game would be a solid 7.
    However, where it all falls apart for me (and obviously not just for me), is when we take the business model into consideration.

    Expecting people to pay annually is unspeakably greedy.
    They avoid the term "subscription", but let's be straight forward here:
    If you want to
    - communicate via chat messages,
    - make maps,
    - apply or make skins
    - be part of the community in any way, be it online or offline
    you have to pay. Call it what you want, it's not making any difference to how I feel about it.
    This is anti-consumer and I can not let this go.
    It's unnecessary, it's cheeky and straight up unfair to the fans who are the only (!!) reason why the games are great. No user created content means no Trackmania.

    That's all.    … Expand
  24. monthofpie
    Jul 27, 2020
    0
    The addition of Ice is just blasphemous. I do not condone teasing in any way shape or form in games ESPECIALLY when full features are blocked by paywalls. Such as the skin customization for starter /standard accounts, you cant even use your own skins that you had created. After I painstakingly made a skin for myself, I could not use it and after reading through some articles it becameThe addition of Ice is just blasphemous. I do not condone teasing in any way shape or form in games ESPECIALLY when full features are blocked by paywalls. Such as the skin customization for starter /standard accounts, you cant even use your own skins that you had created. After I painstakingly made a skin for myself, I could not use it and after reading through some articles it became clear to me. Ubisoft has become a money-hungry greedy company that want a SUBSCRIPTION based economy for this game...For shame. Only the club members get to use their own skins, so what is the point to customise cars for starters and standard players if we cant even use our own skins.
    Disgusting capitalistic pigs...ALL OF THEM    … Expand
  25. igfakinmatysek
    Jul 20, 2020
    1
    ubisoft destroyed another game, nothing new
    all they want is money
    full of bugs
    sometimes lags when switching cams
    u cant do **** with free version
  26. Mermaid_Man
    Jul 14, 2020
    0
    I’m a big fan of trackmania and love what they’ve done here, I don’t get all the negative reviews, I’m having a blast playing it...
  27. Lu_PinG
    Jul 12, 2020
    0
    The PVP content in the f2p part of the game is just emberassing. The menu is confusing and the paywall gave me the rest to delete the game. I swore to myself not to reinstall uplay ever again but i did it for trackmania. Got disappointed again....
  28. StormForeshadow
    Jul 11, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have only played Trackmania Nations Forever before, I was hoping that this game will be somewhat similar, its not. The tutorial is just frustrating, It looks like half of tutorial maps are just copy paste of previous track with only different terrain. Summer 2020 tracks are horrible, they totally don't have trackmania spirit. Having to slow down and watch out for traps hidden around the corner or just after hillock is counterintuitive for that kind of racing game. The only good summer 2020 track, which reminded me TNF is track nr. 22. And of course the business model... Paying for yearly subscription to have such a basic things as a chat and advanced track editor is just awful.

    If you are looking for Trackmania Nations Forever experience then don't even think about this game. Just pretend that it doesn't exist, for your good.    … Expand
  29. Profex_
    Jul 10, 2020
    0
    I love Trackmania, but they should not have introduced a subscription based model!
    Stripping the basic features the predecessors had and putting them behind a yearly payment is bad practice.
    As a long time fan who bought every previous game I feel offended.
  30. Rankaku
    Jul 10, 2020
    2
    Was really looking forward to this new installment but seriously, why the subscription based content needed to be paid in order to have more fun towards it. The game plays decent at best, sometimes lag when switching camera views.

    Please just stick to TM2S, its basically this but less features.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 12, 2020
    60
    Apart from servers and a short campaign, the developers have not really prepared anything for the release. Most of the content of the new Trackmania is a reworking of old, and the rest is created by fans... again. In fact, Nadeo and Ubisoft only provide servers and features to meet the user's creative needs. On the other hand, this is what Trackmania has always been. However, there are still questions: how the studio will develop the game further and whether the subscription model will pay off. We haven't received any answers to them yet.
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  2. God is a Geek
    Jul 15, 2020
    70
    Trackmania can be incredibly fun, but some awkward track design and camera issues can really dampen the experience.
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  3. Gamer.nl
    Jul 15, 2020
    75
    Trackmania excels at everything fans fell in love with years ago: a true race with dozens of bizarre tracks and high speeds. The game unfortunately comes with a disclaimer: the different subscriptions, menus and leaderboards are very confusing. That is especially bad for new players, while Trackmania is such a good idea on paper.
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