#TRACKMANIA 2 STADIUM SLOW LOAD TIMES SERIES#

The game does let you skip tracks with a joker system, if you fail to beat it three times, but this feels like an archaic workaround. ThatвЂ™s all before you have to consider the Trackmaster medalsвЂ¦

#TRACKMANIA 2 STADIUM SLOW LOAD TIMES SERIES#

ThatвЂ™s simple enough, but the middle difficulty Blue Series then demands that you have silver medals for all the previous tracks, before the most difficult Black Series requires all gold medals. You unlock tracks in blocks of ten, going through each of the environments in turn at a given difficulty level, however to unlock the second set of tracks you need to have ten bronze medals.

However, itвЂ™s not just your own compulsion forcing you to perfect each track, the gameвЂ™s progression demands it. The instant restart that lives on the circle button will be your friend, as you never get past the first 20 seconds of any of the gameвЂ™s music tracks and worry about whether your trigger finger is going to go numb. ThereвЂ™s a little bit of common ground with another Ubisoft published series, Trials, in that getting to the end of a track is usually doable, but every little mistake that you make along the way will cost you precious time. Even in the easiest of the five difficulty levels, there are a few tracks and gold medal times that can be tricky to best. That plays perfectly with the compulsive nature of the gameвЂ™s time attacks. Jumping back and forth can be a little tricky, but TrackMania lives by the mantra of being easy to learn but difficult to master. The tight barriers of the rollercoasters are a particular challenge in Lagoon, needing you to make sharp and precise adjustments even as the track twists and turns away from you in all manner of directions, and that contrasts with the wider tracks that youвЂ™ll tend to find in Stadium. YouвЂ™d expect the dirt racing of Valley to be slippy, but the car is a lot grippier on roads compared to that of Canyon, which you can happily send into wide, sweeping drifts.

Each location features a slightly different style of driving and demands on the player as well.

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