I finally decided to do the first track review for this blog site today, i downloaded the first track listed on the showcase at the TMX website.My first impressions upon trying this track built by L3ky were to be honest, just another bog standard full speed track but as time went on and after 15 minutes of playing this track, it grew on me despite it having an abundance of faults.
I would like to point out some of the faults as demonstrated in the below screen shots with a little text describing each fault.
As you can see from this screen shot, to navigate through the track you would have to get past
this loop and it isn't very pretty. The loop is 3 blocks wide so you would have to aim rather wide to the left to go through this loop properly. In my 2 years of track building experience, in that time i learnt that it is never a good idea to do loops of this style unless you are approaching the loop from an diagonal road as it disrupts the general flow of the track quite badly.
Frankly, the first wallride you navigate through after the initial loop is done rather badly.
As you can see from the screen shot, the exit of the wallride is not properly aligned with the half pipe section so you would have to aim higher at the wallride exit than you are normally accustomed to. If you don't, expect to bash the enter key in frustration after having your lap attempt ruined!
This section is rather a nice touch to the track, that is if you know exactly where you are going!As you can see from this screen shot, to navigate through the track you would have to get past
this loop and it isn't very pretty. The loop is 3 blocks wide so you would have to aim rather wide to the left to go through this loop properly. In my 2 years of track building experience, in that time i learnt that it is never a good idea to do loops of this style unless you are approaching the loop from an diagonal road as it disrupts the general flow of the track quite badly.Frankly, the first wallride you navigate through after the initial loop is done rather badly.As you can see from the screen shot, the exit of the wallride is not properly aligned with the half pipe section so you would have to aim higher at the wallride exit than you are normally accustomed to. If you don't, expect to bash the enter key in frustration after having your lap attempt ruined!
As you can see, you have to go through two half diagonal loop sections with a semi tunnel section and it is rather difficult to know where to go. But i'll excuse the track builder on this one since it is rather easy to do after a couple of tries and if you do this section smoothly then you shave a few hundred milliseconds off your lap time.
The last fault i would like to point out, as outlined in this screen shot is the pretty obvious mini cut. What i don't know is if the cut was intended or not but i must admit it is another nice touch to the track and it is quite hard to do the cut but if you can do it, prepare to see a large chunk of a second cut off your overall lap time.In all, this track has quite a few faults but despite that it has some parts that are quite a breath of fresh of air and i won't be afraid to admit that the track grows on you as you practice it more.
To conclude this track review, i award it a generous 7/10, just below the criteria required for me to give this track an award on TMX as i am pretty strict on awarding tracks as i only give it out to those that i feel really deserves it.
Here's a video of my best lap attempt on this track, and oh you'll probably need the DivX codec to view this video.
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