Trackmania² Lagoon

I LOVE WOOD MAPS

c15 worst map ever

before the review wanna mention a majority of my playtime has been outside of steam with a separately installed maniaplanet, using the key/registration for lagoon i got from steam. i have 47 gold models in the lagoon campaign as of writing this. lagoons grown on me a bit, i like the environment. car takes getting used to to handle but now that i do i enjoy playing these tracks a lot, has a wide variety of track designs and surfaces, even incorporates weirder trackmania quirks like water bouncing in a few campaign tracks. plus as is the case with every trackmania2 environment, it is VERY pretty, still great to look at in 2024. id highly recommend checking this out if you already played one of the other tm2 environments and want to check out something different, with some caveats. the almost-always-online requirement of maniaplanet is kind of a bummer, at least its not connected to ubisoft connect though like turbo and the reboot are. and the price is maybe a bit steep, especially if youre planning on buying all the tm2 environments, i would wait for a sale. for what its worth if youre looking at the score, most seem to be issues with maniaplanet itself or technical issues which is fair enough i suppose. since ive gotten it working though (on linux of all things), id say there isnt rly too much worse or better than the other environments other than you might not be a fan of the steering for this car. i definitely like it (enough to get those gold medals and even a few higher-tier author medals anyway), check it out if its on sale and you wanna complete the trackmania2 collection. something worth remembering as is the case with the other tm2 environments, and trackmania in general, it gets pretty hard. a lot of ppl wont make it all the way to the final campaign difficulty tier. dont let that discourage you though, it IS intended for the best of the best drivers after all, requiring at least gold in every previous track. these games take practice! oh and should you ever want more tracks, you can either try other lagoon-themed titlepacks on maniaplanet, or download individual tracks and trackpacks on tm.mania-exchange.com (filter the environment to "lagoon" when searching). the vast amount of user created tracks keeps the game fresh :)