What's the most hardcore PC driving game? You might be surprised by one very credible answer. You can spend hours perfecting set-ups on iRacing, or erecting three screens and a fully pneumatic D-Box rig for a tricked-out Project Cars experience, but nothing compares to the steel-edged challenge of Trackmania, a driving game with its own cruel rhythm: race, reset and repeat until you've spent whole angry hours in the pursuit of shaving a few tenths of a second off a 20 second run.
If you're on console, you may have been blind to Nadeo's long-running series, which has struggled to find a foothold outside the PC. Trackmania Turbo feels like a concerted effort to change all that; this is a slick, generous and welcoming addition to Nadeo's series, at once an introduction, compendium and handsome buffing of everything that's gone before. Don't worry, though. It's still got teeth.
The fundamentals remain untouched. This is a time attack game, where it's you against a quickfire series of short, torturous circuits that don't appear to be on first name terms with the laws of physics. The campaign that's at the heart of Trackmania Turbo offers up some 200 tracks on which to earn gold, silver or bronze medals, depending on the time you set. Many of them are over in a handful of seconds. Many more of them, while short, will take serious time and effort to conquer.
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