It's easy to learn how to use the included editors to change the looks of your car or to create new tracks, and the community is already filled with user-created content for the game. Patriot 2 x 120GB Wildfire SATAIII SSD PW120GS25SSDR in RAID 0 Intel® Core i7 2600k processor, Hyperclocked Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit You can't crash into the other cars, but seeing their paths and where they fail is a great way to learn the tricks of each track. It's a rush when you're playing against competitors who are seeing a user-created track for the first time, and you are all given five minutes to get the best time. If you fail, there is nothing to worry about you can try as many times as you can fit into the server's time limit. The single player game is fun, but the real joy comes from joining a multiplayer server, where you can see dozens of other racers vying to get to the finish lines the fastest. Right now I'm one of the best racers in Ohio, but I'm guessing I've been knocked down a number of pegs since the weekend. You can race against cars that keep the pace required to get each medal, or you can download a variety of ghosts from your state or country to see how the fastest racers achieved those record-setting times. After each attempt you're told how you compare against others in your state, country, or in the world. The competition is fierce, and you're always stacked up against someone. There is nothing here that will annoy you you are always pushed to better your times and scores. The cost of failure is nonexistent, as a button press allows you to start over with no additional loading times or pauses.
Most of the tracks can be finished in less than a minute, but it will take hours to get the best times on the higher-difficulty levels. There will be huge jumps, and you will drive up the side of walls over huge drops.
The single-player portion of the game presents you with a series of tracks that start in the realm of the possible and slowly morph into designs from a fevered imagination. This is a simple game, but that's part of its charm. I often play the game with a cup of coffee in my other hand, or while sipping a soda. You can hit backspace to place your car back at the beginning of each track, or the Enter key to start from the last checkpoint. You control the cars in Trackmania 2 Canyon with the arrow keys on your keyboard.