Trackmania® Turbo

patrick3027 · June 16, 2015

Just the trailer:

Available 26/11/2015 for the first time on consoles, on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems, and also on PC.

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!

• 4 ENVIRONMENTS, 4 DIFFERENT GAMEPLAYS

• CAMPAIGN MODE

• DOUBLE DRIVER

• TRACKBUILDER

Game overview

Completely reworked, Trackmania will let you experience a brand new art direction based on racing culture elements</p><p>

Easy to learn, hard to master, enjoy immediate fun on your own with Trackmania, or challenge your friends at home or online!

Product description

Highly replayable, Trackmania can provide you with a diversified gaming experience by blending arcade-style racing with the perfect track building toolbox: thanks to the revamped and easy to use Trackbuilder, you will be able to design an infinite number of outlandish tracks.

Race on the 200 head-spinning tracks included in-game, set in 4 beautiful environments, each with their own gameplay style. Join the community online and enjoy a virtually infinite number of new tracks created by the other players.

Key features

4 environments, 4 different gameplays

Race through stunning environments with beautiful new graphics, each with its own gameplay experience:

- Lagoon Rollercoaster: Defy gravity in a tropical paradise archipelago.

- Iternational Stadium: Skills and precision are key to master this environment focused on performance.

- Canyon Drift: Drift your way through this North American grand valley.

- Dirty Valley: Jump through the hills in an immersive countryside setting.

Campaign mode

Test your skills, win medals, unlock up to 200 unique tracks in over 5 difficulty levels, and progress in worldwide rankings.

Double driver

You don’t have to take on the Trackmania challenges alone. Team up with a friend and control one car with two controllers. Beware! Communicate and stay in sync or you’ll crash!

Trackbuilder

Play with this intuitive toolbox to design your own crazy outlandish tracks or spice up your experience by generating random ones. Save and share your best tracks to challenge other players.

Systemic music

In Trackmania the music is tied to your racing experience, your own skills create variations of intensity & dramatic drops. The music changes as you pass though checkpoints, trigger drifts or achieve jumps, making every race completely unique.

Normal price: 39,99€

Pre-order: 35,99€

(Could someone check the price in $?)

It's kinda expensive, considering TrackMania United Forever was 29,99€ for 7 environments. But hey, it's coming to consoles now, yey!

Also, is it just me or is it looking quite alot like Sega AllStars Racing? It looks too "arcade-ish" - if that makes sense? I'm a bit disappointed in this. The overall appearance and gameplay looks like it should be played by 5-year-olds.

Anyway, I'm a big fan of the series and might still consider getting it if they get rid of the ManiaPlanet nonsense and if it will be released on Steam.

(On a side note, they mentioned Nadeo nowhere, only Ubisoft, kinda disappointing ...)

EDIT: A bunch of screenshots

Official:
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Unofficial:

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-TesseracT- · June 16, 2015

I LOVE this game, and am really glad to see a new one. But the price seems a little bit steep.

minibois · June 16, 2015

Oh gosh, still remember Trackmania from way back in the day..

Looks cool, but eh.. 40 euros..

It looks a bit like Sonic racing game, in terms of vibrant colors, but otherwise gameplay still looks like Trackmania to me

Minzo · June 16, 2015

If it's anything like canyon then I'm already hooked. Can't watch the video right now

MG2R · June 16, 2015

So, wait, I need to pay 40 EUR to get the same game they already had?

cesrai · June 16, 2015

So, wait, I need to pay 40 EUR to get the same game they already had?

Elaborate ?

Looks good.

JebKerman · June 16, 2015

I won't be pre-ordering, probably wait for a steam sale. But i really love this series, I've owned every game (Canyon feels best imo), and I am definitely looking forward to this one.

Kinda wished the trailer was in glorious 60FPS though

Ciccioo · June 16, 2015

i got back to playing trackmania last week. this is just awesome

Kinda Bottlenecked · June 16, 2015

Nice, TM Stadium was so much fun.This looks like a better Stadium :lol:

This trailer looks like it was made in game too nice to see the tradition still going

MG2R · June 16, 2015

Elaborate ?

AFAICT, it's just TM. As any version of TM has always been just TM. The only difference here seems to be the ability for consoles to get involved.... Why would I need (read: want) to pay more for that?

patrick3027 · June 16, 2015

I edited the original post with some more info and added some screenshots.

The PS4 and XBox One versions are listed for a December 31, 2016 release, lol ...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00ZJBSBD8/12-230c-20/

Anyway I'm still not convinced. Nadeo hasn't done something decent since they were acquired by Ubisoft in 2009. Trackmania² Canyon, Stadium and Valley were okay but ManiaPlanet messed up the community. Shootmania Storm was simply bad. I'm sure Ubisoft will find a way to mess this one up, by making life diificult for modders or something.

I really hope this can be the title than brings the community together but yeah, wait and see.

PS: It's also a bad name, since there is already a version of the game called TrackMania Turbo for the Nintendo DS.

MG2R · June 16, 2015

Nadeo hasn't done something decent since they were acquired by Ubisoft in 2009.

Noone has done anything decent since they were acquired by Ubisoft in recent years

patrick3027 · June 16, 2015

More news released in a blog post: https://blog.maniaplanet.com/blog/2015/06/16/hello-planet-5-nadeo-maniaplanet-and-trackmania-turbo/

The interesting bits:

Trackmania Turbo
We have finally released the information that we are working on Trackmania for consoles! The whole studio is looking forward this big release. And I hope that Trackmania Turbo will be like a classic game that we can boot again in many years, with the same hardware & software, and enjoy both from good memories and always renewed stuff, thanks to the huge campaign, map editor or random generator. Somehow, I wish this game to be like a pool table, flipper or a babyfoot for families. It’s still in front of a screen, or in virtual reality, but there is something really simple, pure and infinitely skilled that makes it somehow like an object more than a spectacle.
Since the foundation of the studio, we have avoided to work on something else than the personal computer because the PC is well adapted for what we do and what we will do. But there were just too good reasons to make console versions and I will try to explain them, as well as to answer the difficult questions.

The good reasons
After E3 2013, thanks to the console specs, we knew we could do it while keeping the studio focus on Maniaplanet for the future.

Reach even more players with Trackmania thanks to the game quality, launch and lasting appeal

Take time to work on the Lagoon environment

Take time to work on the living room aspect of Trackmania, to play with relatives and friends in front of the big screen!

Improve the Trackmania API for Maniaplanet: the game is all done with manialink & maniascript.

And probably the best we got out of it is also the opportunity to build a stronger team that should help a lot for our next Maniaplanet steps.

The difficult questions

Trackmania Turbo is standalone on PC. It will create another additional place of community, instead of all in one place.

Lagoon will release only next year on Maniaplanet, to take time to adapt content at best.

We intend to make a commercial move for players who wish all TM envs in Maniaplanet & the TM Turbo game.

A restricted choice of consoles, since it’s the same team working on Trackmania Turbo & Maniaplanet, for reasons of time.

For me, dividing is the only big question, and seems to be a counter part of looking to have best of both worlds: TM Turbo for a finished product & Maniaplanet in a constant evolution by players & us. So, it will be a challenge, we have some things to do to help, including the release of Maniaplanet 4, but it’s also partly in the hands of the community players to transform this division in addition.
Many other questions will have to be answered later, like the question of a beta or the way the online will be done, but we have to wait and come back with more info later!

"It will create another additional place of community, instead of all in one place." In other words, they are gonna divide the community even more.

Some developers then started answering questions from fans:

Toninus, the goal is to make the gameplay as close as possible and we will even update the Maniaplanet ones to enable more easily players to jump from one game to another. I am thinking about the antispam in Valley for example. It may break some world records, but I am sure some players will be good enough to reset them even better More and more elements to change gameplay may appears in Maniaplanet over time, like the gravity this month.

To export tracks would be complicated since various datas are expected to be different.

No collisions

For online, info will come later, but I doubt we will do cross-platform. For Uplay, I need to look more at it before giving answers: I have a meeting for this soon

I will be back later for more answers. I will avoid to do all in a rush

and

Why didn't you prioritize ManiaPlanet as your main project and finishing/polish it instead of porting the unfinished work into a multiplatform game?
Turbo will broaden the audience for the Trackmania brand and will help TM2 to get more people in it. It may have lower TM2 player population at the release of Turbo but we're confident that it'll not last (that's the effect to want to try something new and then return on the plateform where you have more options to have fun and where your friends/community are)

Maniaplanet players are likely to stay on Maniaplanet to enjoyed the advanced features of the plateform and Turbo players may be interested to see what the community cook on Maniaplanet.

For those who ask if Turbo player can play with Maniaplanet players :
TM Turbo for a finished product & Maniaplanet in a constant evolution by players & us.

Are they really suggesting that people new to trackmania that have bought TMT will just randomly decide...Oh hey, I can also buy the same games I already have in TMT because there's other players and titlepacks and...uh, seriously?

Even if they'll gift free access to ManiaPlanet titles to those who have bought TMT - there's no way they are going to switch because there's no good reason for it.

Snickerzz · June 16, 2015

@patrick3027

It's $40 on Steam, no pre purchase discount.

VortexS · June 16, 2015

I don't really like the new artstyle, but I guess it does fit games like Trackmania. Well I guess I'll buy it anyway

patrick3027 · March 13, 2016

Little update

Minimal and recommended specs have been revealed:

minimum :

OS: Microsoft Windows 7

Processor : Dual Core 3Ghz
RAM : 3Go DDR2
Graphics card : 512 Mo, Pixel Shader 2.0 / Nvidia GT 730 ou équivalent
Audio : 16 bit compatible DirectX 9
Disk space : 3 Go d’espace libre

recommanded :

OS: Microsoft Windows 7/8

Processor : Intel Core I5 3Ghz ou équivalent
RAM : 4Go DDR3
Graphics : 1Go, Pixel Shader 3.0 / Nvidia GTX560 Ti ou équivalent
Audio : 32 bit compatible DirectX 11
Disk space : 5 Go d’espace libre

Release date has been pushed back to March 24th, this means you have one week left to pre-order it on Steam and save 4 bucks http://store.steampowered.com/app/375900/

Trackmania Turbo will be compatible with Oculus Rift and Playstation VR at release.

And a bunch of screenshots

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