For veterans, this is my favourite of the TrackMania² environments. The car handles on tarmack better than the other two. If you liked the Island environment, I would say this one is the closest to it of the three. Keep in mind, however, that it also contains dirt tracks which are more like Rally. I also think this environment is the most beautiful, though they are all nice in their own way.

If you're new to TrackMania, let me say that TrackMania is AWESOME. It is basically a time trial game, but what a game! The driving is not realistic. You will do tight turns, stunts and drifts. You will drive at ridiculous speeds, stack, and try again. You will make a tight, high-speed turn, followed by a jump, fly across an enourmous gulf, land, do a loop, and then crash into a finish line. Or miss, but eventually you will succeed.

And then there is the extraordinarily powerful (AND easy to use!!) level editor, which has led to large community of excellent user created tracks and multiplayer servers.

Nice! :o

Highly Recommended Game!
This probably is the best Trackmania Environment ever made!
It has an astonishing variety; you can create easy-driving tracks, Off-Road tracks, Stunt Tracks, Insane Full-Speed Tracks ecc...
You have a very large selection of blocks to choose from, and the editor, as usual from Nadeo, is great!
I strongly suggest buying this game both if you are a fan of the franchise or not!
You won't be disapointed.
One last note on the graphics, which really shine in this package!
Amazing light reflections, gorgeous environments, volumetric clouds and whatever you might imagine.
An amazing game all-around.
Definetly a must buy! (God i love this game so much!)

⚖️ Grade = B. Worth a buy, if you enjoy versus personal best record. However, if you're looking for collision fun with real time player, don't buy this

🕘 2013: Game released and it is too expensive from how it looks
🕘 2017: Refund the game because I was wrongly compare this to another video game
🕘 2021: Buy again because I understand how it work and appreciate it


✔️ Point A to Point B
✔️ Circuit
✔️ Long jumps
✔️ Self challenges
✔️ Large numbers of laps in a single circuit
❌ Vehicle Damage Management
❌ Collision with other player's car
❌ One life challenge (No restart)
❌ Score attack

👉Long version checklist

🔊 Require maniaplanet account to start playing
🔊 Require multiple patch downloads to complete a full download
🔊 F r e e demo only allow join multiplayer season with random cycle
🔊 Tricky track design
🔊 No steam achievement
🔊 Allow toggle ghost car during the race
🔊 Setting hidden on the top, and some setting hide in player profile setup
🔊 Require download mod to apply 2nd car model
🔊 Small obstacle will stop your car no matter how fast you go
🔊 Not able to see all friend result in the leaderboard
🔊 Since 2018 the discount not going lower than 50%
🔊 Community Rating: Mostly Positive

⚠️ Completely dead online ➜ The game is not made for versus real-time player
⚠️ Require server to start the game ➜ False info
⚠️ Not good as TrackMania² Canyon ➜ Unclear reason

💎 65 diverse tracks
💎 Good graphic in 2021 & smooth performance
💎 Instant restart on failure
💎 Instant car reset at the nearest checkpoint on last minute failure
💎 Extreme easy & crazy hard content
💎 Multiple ghost car in a single race (personal best)
💎 Heavy focus on training gameplay, that's why it is less competitive
💎 Local country ranking
💎 Paint & track editor
💎 Steam workshop
💎 Optional 3D glass screen filter

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! There is no local splitscreen anymore !
This was the only reason I bought the game again (I played it 8 year ago using local 4 player mode all the time). Apparently there is a workaround get this option back (create your own title slot in mania planet that is based on the original game). But additionally you are not able to access any campagin maps. There seems again an option to download the maps from somewhere. But it looks to me as if you would need to download them one by one. And even if you download some, the still don't show up. In my opinion this is a complete mess. I wan't to play and not find workarounds and try to put files in the right folders. This is a huge disappoinment.
(I got stadium and valley and it doesn't work for both)

ENG:

Still a great car game, this is the same old game series.

High recommend!


FIN:

Edelleen loistava autopeli, tähän samaan vanhaan peli sarjaan.

Suosittelen!

By far the toughest entry in the Trackmania 2 collection of games, but also very rewarding. The smooth drifing of Canyon is long gone. 99% of all braking you do on pavement will be in a straight line, or else your run will almost definitely be ruined. This is something you should know as you go into the game. It's not as easy to pick up and play as Canyon or Stadium

The crazy high speed tracks are still here, but dirt tracks are a fresh addition. A lot of them are actually pretty reasonable tracks, but that's not to say they aren't as much fun. At high speeds, keeping control on these can be a nervewracking experience. Stadium and (to a lesser extent) canyon both offer stretches of dirt, but this is a totally different beast altogether. It's a different game, but it's still ridiculous, it's still fun, and I still want just one more try before bed, mom.

Recommended for: perfectionists
Not recommended for: recovering addicts

Great and fun game, recommended especially if you have the other 2, Canyon and Stadium, as it does complete the pack. Be aware that the population is smaller here, but there's a lot of fun to be had regardless of that!

For me the best environment of the TrackMania 2 series so far. Great graphics and a challenging handling are the main aspects of the game. It´s also known for its huge moding community. Create your own maps, skins, 3D objects and new 3D cars, scripts, mods for the environment and much more. Overall a must have, at least if you ask me ... ;D

TrackMania 2 Valley brings all of the improvements and excitement from its brother game, TM2 Canyon.

The Valley car is noticeably more touchy than the Canyon car, and the tracks on Valley provide almost no room for error and some scattered instances of cheap randomly placed geometry to instantly stop your perfect run. Valley is obviously for a more experienced crowd, providing something less of a joyride than TM2 Canyon and more precise than the easily accessible TM2 Stadium.

Stadium-like wide open spaces at least give you room to pilot your finnicky automobile, but things work out a lot worse once you attempt a rally track. The car handles easily enough on road with big, wide turns; dirt and rally sections of the track require impossibly accurate feats of countersteering that DEMAND the use of something more precise than a keyboard (all gaming pads that you can plug into your computer are completely compatible with TrackMania).

If the idea of piloting a beast machine of a vehicle over rally roads and moonlit interstates is exciting to you, Valley delivers a compelling caricatured sensation of real racing, more so than any other TM game to date.

It can cause equal parts frustration and satisfaction, so if you are looking for more of a joyride, I suggest you buy TM2 Canyon or TM2 Stadium first.