Having realised that I never played Fusion enough to try out Zone Mode (which gets a lot of praise as the one great thing about this iteration of the series), I plugged away much of the weekend to finally give it a go.
Oh dear Lord am I rubbish at it. The shield system punishes you pretty harshly for the mildest of scrapes; not something I'd whinge about if it hadn't been for the fact that using the entire track with a little wall nudging is a thoroughly encouraged tactic in the rest of the game thus far, and so none of my racing lines work any more.
I'm failing to get any higher than about level 17 on track 1 so far, and you need 25 to progress - can someone give me some pointers, other than just going back and re-learning how to fly from scratch?