TrackMania: Nations

Duke · 27 Jan 2006 at 19:58

New mod for Trackmania released!

Nadeo, developers of the massively played online racing series, Trackmania, have come up trumps with their free Trackmania Nations ESWC game!

For the first time in the history of eSport, a video game has been specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup and is being offered free of charge to the players of the entire planet so they may commence training for the qualifiers due to take place in 53 countries on Friday 27th of January. The Grand Final of ESWC will be held in Paris from June 28th to July the 2nd , in front of 40,000 people, where the best players from each country will battle it out for a prize of 400,000 dollars.

This special version features a brand new environment, the Stadium, and a revolutionary new gameplay designed for Nadeo's own custom cars. Nadeo has pulled the technological rabbit from the hat with their own brand game engine, featuring the series' best graphics yet, finely tuned for the latest generation graphics cards, not forgetting simpler machines so that no one round the world has a technical freeze out on the race track. With the online in-game ladder, players can customise their cars and avatars and race in their nation's colours on the world's servers from Friday onwards. Many Trackmania and Trackmania Sunrise players will already have access to the following exclusive features: peer 2 peer data exchange and skin and avatar customisation.

∙ Official Website: Click Me!

∙ Link to preview video: Click Me! (70MB)

∙ Download link (TM users): Click Me! (400MB)

∙ Download link (stand alone version): Click Me! (265MB)

knowledge123 · 27 Jan 2006 at 20:11

sounds awesome!
but 400mb :mad:

it'll take hours to download, ill get the vid though

i love trackmania and sunrise, and it shows that some developers actually care for their customers :cool:

Psypher5 · 27 Jan 2006 at 20:24

I love the trackmania guys, always releasing new stuff for free

knowledge123 · 27 Jan 2006 at 20:56

i must have about 50 cars for both games,try

http://skincenter.tm-community.com/

for someawesome skins and

http://www.trackmania-carpark.com/

for the relavent cars for which they go on,
and try

http://sunrise.tm-exchange.com/

for tonnes (tons?) of tracks.

Behemoth · 27 Jan 2006 at 21:24

Cool think I'll give this a try

BigRoger · 27 Jan 2006 at 22:45

i downloaded the link you gave and thats a patch for trackmania sunrise too upgrade too

Behemoth · 27 Jan 2006 at 22:46

D'oh upgrade, will have to buy sunrise then, the trailer looked very good.

BigRoger · 27 Jan 2006 at 23:02

well on fileplanet it says free game so ill try get it off there too see if its the full installer.

yourmomma · 28 Jan 2006 at 00:09

proper link = http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_tmnations_downloads.html

Bernard · 28 Jan 2006 at 00:32

Yeah, its a standalone install.

BigRoger · 28 Jan 2006 at 02:02

thanks man

VaderDSL · 28 Jan 2006 at 03:48

So I need trackmania or trackmania sunrise to play this?

warnea1984 · 28 Jan 2006 at 04:01

VaderDSL said:
So I need trackmania or trackmania sunrise to play this?

I believe it is a standalone game for free to everyone, its a huge event, Nadeo really looks after its games players, first Trackmania Sunrise: Extreme for free and then this.

10 Gold Stars to Nadeo

VaderDSL · 28 Jan 2006 at 04:05

im having serious problems getting it to run, a visual basic error or something along those lines.

I could get into the game ok, but when i go to start a level/race it just crashed to desktop saying something about visualbasic

The $6m Dan · 28 Jan 2006 at 12:27

knowledge123 said:
sounds awesome!
but 400mb it'll take hours to download, ill get the vid though
i love trackmania and sunrise, and it shows that some developers actually care for their customers

Not here. Using works connection and getting 1MB/s from gamershell

4 minutes to download.

CliffyG · 28 Jan 2006 at 12:46

Downloading now, loved the demo of the original just never got round to buying it.

mmj_uk · 28 Jan 2006 at 12:49

This game looks and plays really great!

The shadows are by far the smoothest and most realistic i've seen.

Reektan · 28 Jan 2006 at 12:51

doesnt run as well as TM sunrise on my machine but it looks.. oh so shiny!

Reppyboyo · 28 Jan 2006 at 13:40

Seesm the game hates Saitek keyboards, I cant even enter my name or flag.

Spunj99 · 28 Jan 2006 at 13:46

Made a modified GBR type skin.