No, Slam, YOU'RE missing the point of the game.

There's a million barely-different "realistic" racers out there. TrackMania is something DIFFERENT, and while you may not have any capacity to grasp such a concept, it's generally considered a good thing.

Trackmania is never claimed to be a serious racing game. It's straight-up arcade racing on insane courses, PERIOD. I'm sorry, but I LIKE my games with a heavy dose of surreality. If you want realism, then by all means, go buy the next cookie-cutter F1 game. But don't knock a game you haven't played because it doesn't fit what YOU think it should be. Maybe you should PLAY the game (there's multiple demos) and then talk about it.