

The car here is nowhere near as quick as the other two, so you would be forgiven for thinking that it would be easier to control. Each game has a different car, and Valley’s is certainly the toughest to get used to. If you are new to the Trackmania experience, then Valley might be the hardest one of the three to drop into. If you are looking for plenty of opponents, then Stadium is the way to go right now. I am not particularly good at the game, but I am already into the top one thousand players in Europe. As such, you feel part of a fun, intimate little club when you start seeing familiar names online. Not a lot of people play Trackmania compared to other racing games, and even fewer are playing Valley than Stadium at the moment. And I tend to agree.įor a beginner the game is really hard to understand at first, but once you get there it all just becomes part of the charm. The general response from people who enjoy the games is: “So what? It’s Trackmania!”. An odd release schedule is just another thing to add to the series’ awful user interfaces and overly complicated track editors.

It’s not as if French developer Nadeo is immune to criticism, it’s just that no one seems to care. It brings a new car and new environments to race in, but if you haven’t been drawn in by any of the Trackmania games by this point, then there is nothing here that will entice you either. Canyon released back in 2011, Stadium came nearly two years later, and now Valley blasts onto the scene, err, two weeks after the release of Stadium. If you read Chris’ review of Trackmania 2 Stadium last week then you’ll know that the second instalment of the wacky Trackmania series is split up into three parts.
