TrackMania Turbo (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £33.99
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Racing
Input: Gamepad
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: 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 split-screen) or online.

Review: While the game itself is well worth picking up if you like fast-paced, skilled racing, the VR aspect is pretty much pointless and unplayable. The biggest problem is the layouts of the tracks often consist of loops, jumps and flips that are all designed to turn your world upside down. Now, on a 2D screen, this will give you butterflies in your stomach and a flutter of joy. In VR they will bring you close to passing out with nausea! …if only that was the case.

Sadly there isn’t a lot playable in VR here. Just 40 short VR exclusive tracks and while fun they are not the full game to play in VR that many people would have wanted. I love the game played on a screen and in VR it would have been amazing! Sadly it is not meant to be. If you already own the game on steam this is well worth a look, but don’t buy it just because you want to play it in VR as it is not worth paying full price.