Trackmania Turbo

This game is fun, but the tracks are sometimes really awkward lack flow. At times it plays like a total arcade outlandish booster enhanced racer-which is what makes it really enjoyable. Hitting jumps and flying hundreds of feet through the air is the highlight of the game. On the other hand, sometimes it seems like its trying to be a serious race game. It's frustrating in this sense if you like race games that flow like Dirt, or Grid. In those games it's easy to learn the controls, yet hard to master. Not to mention the tracks are realistic in those games. Here, you don't get that same type of consistent challange where the difficulty goes up with your learning curve and is well balanced. In this game you can go from one cartoon style track where you're being dropped in to a quarter pipe, to a track that's semi realistic and so maddeningly frustrating in the worst way (i.e lack of control on inclines and strange lines where you totally lose control and go flying off the rode into ravines or into bodies of water) that you end up wanting to turn it off. The single player mode is just a race against time/ghost cars of either your best time or the preset times for bronze, silver and gold so you're not competing against a true ai set of other drivers. The online racing is decent, but gets boring after so long for me. I didn't get addicted here the way I have with other race games. This is worth a rent if you like racing games. The scenery is gorgeous and takes advantage of the next gen engines nicely. All in all I give it a 6. A good game to rent when you're waiting on an anticipated title and you have the three game plan and need to fill a spot.