TrackMania

TrackMania is a Jeu of race left in 2003 (on November 21st) on PC. This play published by Interactive Focus Home and developed by Nadéo, offers an new approach of the plays of car, like the fact that there are no collisions. A very strong community allowed the play to make the happiness of hundreds of gamers (the play was sold with more than 100.000 specimens).

Modes of play

Several modes of play are available: race, puzzle, survival, stunt, platform and Multijoueur on Internet.

The race mode remains a very traditional mode: here, not of competitors, but a fight to beat times of reference corresponding to the bronze medals, money and gold, even with the " Nadéo" time; very difficult to beat. In Trackmania, " cars fantomes" representing your time or time to beat is to give a physical image of the stop watch.

The mode more innovating is without question the puzzle mode, bases play. The goal is rather simple: for some parts given, it is necessary to arrange blocks among those proposed to create a way making it possible to reach the arrival in a minimum of time. Behind this simplicity a true breakage head hides so much the combinations are numerous and the solutions are sometimes elaborate. This mode constitutes an excellent initiation with the creation of circuit, since it is another characteristic of the play there, it is possible to create its own circuits and this in a relatively easy way.

The Stunt mode, accessible only since Trackmania Sunrise, request to carry out the most cascades in an assigned time, so once passed assigned time, and that you did not reach the line of not arrived, the points gained thanks to the cascades will fall. The more there are points, the more important the record is and thus the medal too.

The platform mode consists when with him to finish the circuit by pressing the key " Entrer" the least possible, i.e., by recommançant since the Checkpoint last only 10 times maximum (what one calls the " Respawn"). When the circuit is carried out perfectly, it is the gold medal. There is no stop watch.

The multijouor mode consists in as for him playing with no matter whom, in any country, at any moment.

Environments

Indeed, by beating times of reference in the modes puzzle and race , one accumulates points, the coppers which give right blocks in the editor of circuits. Seven environments of play make it possible to leave free court to its imagination to create the circuit of its dreams:

the environment “snow” or “alpine” proposes to the player a cross-country vehicle of type Pick-up, with not very marked accelerations but with rather important top speed, evolving/moving within a snow-covered mountainous framework located in Asia. Thanks to its important mass, the vehicle tends to take much speed in the descents whereas he often pains to climb the ascending slopes without the assistance of boosts. The vehicle has an effective direction thus making the gameplay rather easy to control, answering the orders of the player accurately, which places the environment in the many favorites trackmaniaques ones.
the “deserted” environment or “speed” is particularly interesting. It is composed of blocks rather characteristic of the transverse main roads of North America (large bitumen tracks, industrial ruins) in the middle of an ocher decoration which is not without pointing out Monument Valley. One led a fast, but not very handy American big-engined car there. The car holds the road relatively well. In the turns in extreme cases of the skid, the car is put on two wheels, which is more beautiful effect, in addition to giving indications to the pilot. The behavior of the car makes the videos of Stunt particularly interesting.
the environment “rally”, named ironically by certain “environment cake of soap”, is characterized by very many skids. Indeed, the vehicle, named T6 and vaguely inspired of a great popular success of a French manufacturer, evolving/moving in a Scottish decoration typified with strong castles and small villages in the middle of a green campaign, is characterized by nervous accelerations but its direction rather leaves something to be desired what thus explains the slips that it carries out in the turnings. The vehicle is thus rather difficult to control with the first access, making the environment rather close to Coast in TrackMania Sunrise, rather intended for the amateurs of simulation.
the environment “bay”, is that which lends itself best to freestyle in Sunrise. Its 4x4 luxurious released in the urban jungle of a port native of the Far East (to be seen of them the various inscriptions disseminated in the decoration) has very flexible and dynamic suspensions thus accentuating any bump or any reception of jump without to lower the speed of the vehicle significantly. This one testifies a top speed " moyenne" of almost 600 km/h. This facilitates the figures largely requiring a rather important rise in the airs more especially as it very easily tends to go back on the wheels (contrary to sporting of Island in particular). The direction is it also rather reactive. In that, Bay testifies to rather marked similarities with the Alpine environment of TrackMania Original on the level of its jouability.
the environment “coast” is without question the environment more centered simulation of all. Its roadster puffing requires a graduated control which does not leave the right to the error, which the narrow roads of Provence (where would be held the action) do not arrange. The vehicle testifies an extremely low top speed (seldom more than 250 km/h) compared with the others and tendency to easily “slipping” (drifter) on the two types of roadways present into Coast, namely thus of the very traditional and realistic roads accompanied by portions of the type circuit F1, more complexes to be built. This environment very often décrié by the beginners can be appreciated only after one certain period of adaptation and training in order to control the reactions of the racing car as well as possible.
the environment “island” is without question that from which the gameplay is most accessible from all. It is about an environment purely arcade, with the very broad roads letting the sporting vehicle reach top speeds of: 1000 km/h (posted). Within this framework of paradisiac island, the players can most simply drive their vehicle of the world thanks to reactions,… “reactive”, but not too, and with a fulgurating acceleration of the racing car. Moreover blocks many and are varied there leaving the most total freedom in the design of the layouts. This desired accessibility returns, according to some, the environment too centered “ladder” and it is indeed not rare to see waiters proposing maps only of this environment.
the environment “stadium” proposes to halfway lead to edge of a vehicle between a Formule 1 and a Buggy, its control resulting in very flexible suspensions, a very weak turning radius and a handling to any test. Thus, this environment is very quickly adopted by the beginners. The very realistic physics of the vehicle makes it almost ideal for the stunt, if one passes beside the fact that the car quickly tends to be found on the back, following the example sport scar of Island. The decorations him results in a simple stage with the color of the Electronic Sports World Cup, because this environment was initially present in TrackMania Nations, creates especially for this contest.

A large variety of blocks (approximately a hundred by environment) allows this small exploit. Some are conventional; a road punt, a small rise… of others less, such of the fitted latticework on tubes, accelerators or tremplins.
Each one is thus free to create the type of circuit which he imagines. All these environments are present in TrackMania United with new additional blocks.

In Trackmania United, the limit of coppers is not any more one problem, you can leave free course to your imaginatin without you trouble about the number of coppers qu you would have use, this number is from now on infinite.

Extensions

Three extensions were produced for Trackmania and " TrackMania Sunrise":

Power Up! → this extension, exit in March 2004, contains new blocks, a novel mode of play solo (Survival), and various news functionalities. The play left in the trade with this extension integrated under the name of Trackmania Power Up! . The owners of the original version can also download it free on Internet.
Up Speed! → this extension, started during the development of TrackMania Sunrise and left on October 14th, 2005, was re-elected in Level Up! . It contains all the new functionalities of TrackMania Sunrise and extreme TrackMania Sunrise. The play left in the trade with this extension integrated under the name of TrackMania Original .
extreme → this extension left in November 2005 after TrackMania Original. The first extension for Sunrise, of which it kept the graphic engine, proposes the extreme side of Trackmania thanks to, in particular, of new blocks increasingly more eccentric.

Original Trackmania

At the end of 2005, Nadéo decides to arise the play under the name Trackmania Original : it is about the Trackmania first of the name, accompanied by all the extensions left to this date ( PowerUp! and SpeedUp! ) but using the new engine 3D of TrackMania Sunrise . To these modifications novel modes of play are also added ( Stunts , of which the goal is to do an utmost of figures with the car, and Plate-formes the goal is quite simply to arrive at the end of special courses).

It should be noted that this version left since the October 14th 2005 in store and that she is proposed free in remote loading with all the players having a previous model of Trackmania .

TrackMania Sunrise

TrackMania Nations

TrackMania United

TrackMania United & Forever Nations

Two news " grosses" updates of Trackmania are planned for soon under the name of " TrackMania United Forever" and " TrackMania Forever" Nations;. These updates will make it possible to the players of TMN to join the waiters " Stadium" TMU and to play there (with all the new blocks); but they will not be able to play the other environments. And conversely, the players of TMU will be able to play on the waiters of TMN. The update of TMU (Trackmania United Forever) when to it will try to consolidate the bases of the plays to allow him to hold in time (NoCD, Revue protection… etc).

Source: Subject of the official forum Trackmania

The Community of players

A community of players was created around the plays of the series, exchanging car models, textures, circuits and vidéos of race. Challenges are organized regularly between players amateurs of the various teams, most important having their own waiter. About fifty official and professional competitions were already organized around the play TrackMania Nations (which was especially created for that). Despite everything, " the Trackmania" spirit; , it is initially, mainly on the versions Original and Sunrise , the play in multijouor mode allowing different the " trackmaniaques" to find itself in a convivial environment constantly of the day, without wanting to explode records but just spending a good moment.

Site of communautée TrackMania

External bonds

Site of the developers
French Official site
official Forum French
TrackMania Wiki Grande quantity of information in connection with TrackMania
Tm-sites the directory of all the sites trackmania
Studio Trackmania Visualize videos of Trackmania per ten!

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