![]() ![]() The thing is, Trackmania tracks aren’t like other tracks. Instead, Trackmania is effectively a time trial game, where your job is to post the fastest time you can for any given track. From a distance, Trackmania looks like an ordinary arcade racing game in the vein of a Ridge Racer or Need for Speed. ![]() For those of you who are unfamiliar with the series, however, here’s a quick introduction. You’ve probably been playing it since it went live last week – in fact, you probably haven’t had time or energy for an awful lot else. If you’re a Trackmania fan, it’s almost needless to say that the game is great. It’s more that it gives you a multitude of ways with which you can punish yourself. It’s not so much that Trackmania 2 goes out of its way to punish any hubris. In fact, pride also comes before a disastrous spin, a ruinous encounter with a crash barrier, an embarrassing last-minute fumble while taking off on a ramp and a brutal collision with a concrete wall. You can see a trailer for it, below.In Trackmania 2: Canyon, pride definitely comes before a fall. It’s a time-attack kind of thing, where speed will increase your score. They’ll include ‘Platform,’ a new game mode that lets you practice the move-sets of the game by hopping around levels in pursuit of fuel cells. ShootMania is a bit less clear, but I’d imagine you get a similarly broad range of game modes to sample. ![]() 3 player-created solo & multiplayer modes.All three environments: Canyon, Valley & Stadium.In terms of TrackMania 2 stuff, this is what you get access to: The demo looks to be 100mb and, fair warning, will make you register for ManiaPlanet, Nadeo’s somewhat odd proprietary digital platform for all their games. To give that a try, click on the link at the end of this sentence that will take you to Nadeo’s site here. After that you can still play, but there’s a “daily time limit” of some sort. The new ‘universal demo’ allows people to download and play most aspects of TrackMania 2 (Valley, Canyon, Stadium et al) and ShootMania for a 48 hour period. Nadeo has come up with a way to entice more people into the worlds of TrackMania 2 and ShootMania, which is to give them the games for free. ![]()
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