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[MikeYoshi]

I just feel like talking about a game series called Trackmania.

The first Trackmania game was, well... Trackmania! You have 3 environments to choose from: Desert, Alpine and Rally-- Each with their own different car.

Desert: A, well... Desert! It has barren landscape (barren means that there is nothing on it) and quite a few blocks to choose from. you have the starting block (duh) normal roads, speed boosts, hills, bumps, ramps, little ramps on the side of the road (:P) and many more!

Alpine: Don't know much about this (I only have the demo version) but it is a Winter scene with buildings and stuff...

Rally: Ok, I haven't even seen anything about this before... I'm just guessing, but it's probably a course with no walls unless you are above ground. Like a rally race.

Trackmania has a couple of expansions for it. Power up! and Original (huh? If it was expanded, it can't be the Original :P) Each with extra pieces and tracks.

2nd in the series is Trackmania Sunrise. The environments in this one are Island, Bay, and Coast.

Island: kinda obvious...

Bay: a track with no walls and is made of pavement. It features the standard tracks and like, chain-link grates to drive on (don't woory, thay are safe... except for the part about having no walls :P)

Coast: almost the same as island but isn't. Has buildings and such. The tracks are in a differant style too...

3rd in the series is the free full version of Trackmania Nations. There is only one envoinment in this one: Stadium.

It features a grassy ground surrounded by walls and the usual pieces, track, ramps and the such. The suprise is... LOOPS! They brought bigger loops that in TM original! and Quarterpipes used in a way that YOU (I mean YOU) can make full pipes and such.


Nadeo is currently working on a 4th game in the series called Trackmania United. It has ALL SEVEN ENVIRONMENTS FROM ORIGINAL, SUNRISE AND NATIONS plus OTHER ADD-ONS like over 1,000 plocks to choose from in every environment! Stadium is COMPLETELY remade from scratch and now has dirt road pieces along woth the concrete ones. No other info has been posted except for the website.

Click here to go to the TM united website.

[ShadowMan]

I've always wanted to try this game out (or at least Sunrise). I think I might give the demo a shot.

[MegaTailzChao]

I think I played Trackmania Nations or something like that before...

[Trasher]

WARNING: The Trackmania games use the notorious StarForce copy protection system (yes, even the free one). Some people have had nasty issues rise from this, like DVD burners going extremely slow or dying out entirely.

I personally had no problem, but proceed with caution.

[Shaw]

I got Trackmania nations. It was fun for a while when playing on LAN.

[HammerGuy]

Haha the Track Editor is amusing even though I'm still trying to figure out some things for it. *Uses Trackmania Nations since it's free*

[The Superhero]

I have Trackmania power up!
It's kinda fun, but I can't get the online working

[MikeYoshi]

I have a bit more info on Trackmania United! It has a new peer2peer interface which means you can actually download other people's cars and use them yourself! You can spend coppers on other cars too!!!

note: I got disconnected while writing this... I waited a while before submitting

2 minutes later: ... not connected

4 minutes later: Wireless connection unavalible??? I have to switch from Linksys... Or just get regular internet

4 1/2 munutes later: YAY!! I'M CONNECTED

(this proves how slow my internet is...)