Trackmania Nations Forever - FREE

flaagan

That magical four letter word... no.. not that one... has come around to trackmania...

http://kotaku.com/380734/trackmania-nations-forever-free-get

Keg

It's also available on steam. Really worth while to at least check out

Renaud Galand

awesome game ! I'm playing this since the very first version and it's just one of the best car game I ever played (arcade oriented, though). GIVE IT A TRY !

Michael Knubben

The comments on that article make me cry on the inside.

'Free is nice and all, but I'm a whiny little bitch and I've never heard of this. Please tell me what it is about or I will not download it because it is maybe a virus, like ,right? okay.'

ElysiumGX

How does this version differ from United? Is there more that isn't found in other versions? I bought TMUnited off Steam several months ago. It's an awesome arcade style game. Well worth it.

Edit: A quick search, and it sounds like owners of Nations AND United get the update. I hope so.

Pea: You're right. A quick look at the comments, and people are bitching about Starforce. It's well known and easily found that the Steam versions of Trackmania do not use Starforce. And those who have not heard of Trackmania after all this time are deprived of a truely unique game experience.

Justin Meisse

the whole starforce thing was what drove me away in the past and I just forgot about the game, good to hear I can get a starforce free version. I'm going to give it a shot.

runab0ut

Just downloaded it and installed it... heard about this game before, about to purchase it on the weekend and this got out. good times!

MoP

It's awesome, I encourage everyone to try it. I'm like Renaud, I've played TM since the first one came out, making tracks is really fun, and it's very arcade-y so it's really easy to get into.
Big props to Nadeo etc. for releasing this free, great idea!

ElysiumGX

My steam game list now shows Trackmania United Forever. \m/

Btw, get a good wireless PC controller to really enjoy this game.

MoP

Yeah, I actually just use one of our XBox360 controllers plugged into my laptop, with the laptop outputting to the TV. It feels like it should be a console game
Plus if you get a setup like that, you can plug in a few controllers and get some multiplayer going!

Davision3D

Dont download this, its addictive!
Love TM since the first one, i have build a lot of Tracks for it, its very easy to do and because of that there are millions of crazy Tracks you can play online, and you cant stop playing because you always just want to try that next crazy looking track!

Justin Meisse

hrm, I'll try it out with a controller when I get home but wasn't impressed maybe because it didn't live up to all the hype.

bounchfx

I've only heard wonderful things about this but never tried it myself. Free? You got it!

Slum

A couple level designers at work like to build really brutally hard levels and challenge each other. Seems like a really awesome game, i need to grab it now.

Cody

11 minute download? Damn you, I want it NOW!

EDIT: It gave me the blue screen of death once and froze my comp another time. That is after 4 hours of playing tho

rooster

had a great lunchtime bash.. love seeing people jump at the same time as you and they just sail slowly away from the intended landing point and off into the grass.. mwahaha

Michael Knubben

I had loads of fun with the last one, it's a great lan-game. And I agree, it's really much more enjoyable with a gamepad, even if your coworker blames his losing on a gamepad not working.
Also, the last Trackmania Nations didn't have starforce, so what's the problem? It's a free game, I doubt this one does suddenly have starforce.

pior

It REALLY wasn't working!

Joshua Stubbles

I'll have to divide my time between this and GranTurismo 5 Prologue now

TheWinterLord

Just re-installed United, If I read it right I can play with people who downloaded the free version

Ah yesterday I joined a server and played for 9 minutes on the 2 levels i played I couldn't make the first 2 jumps on the tracks, ah well I know I suck at driving games but common. Hope fully I get into a more newbie server today lol. :P

Emil Mujanovic

It is a really fun game, I'll have to try out the free download as well.
One thing I like about this game is that it reminds me of the really old DOS game Stunts FX. Loved that game when I was younger. I ended up trying to get a hold of it until a dude from work got me onto TM, and been hooked since.

-caseyjones

Snowfly

I am the second highest ranked player in Singapore! And there are only 9 of us...

AstroZombie

This would have been "TEH AWESOME!!!" if I could have used my 360 controller plugged into my USB port. Using arrow keys to steer = fail.

adam

Uh, I use my 360 controller plugged in to my USB port for this game. :nerd:

Ged

I use my ps2 controller really cool little game. Ive also got trackmania sunrise, such a beautiful game, pretty tricky to play on the later levels though! I just got stuck on the puzzles on sunrise and eventually gave up

Renaud Galand

I really prefer to use my keyboard for this game, it's more accurate to me, but hey, it's maybe due to the fact that I have a shitty 5 years old Trust(c) controller :] I'd like to give it a try with the xbox360 controller's analogic stick.

ElysiumGX

AstroZombie wrote: »

This would have been "TEH AWESOME!!!" if I could have used my 360 controller plugged into my USB port. Using arrow keys to steer = fail.

Like I said. Get a controller. I use a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad. Makes steering much more accurate.

AstroZombie

adamBrome wrote: »

Uh, I use my 360 controller plugged in to my USB port for this game. :nerd:

Oh crap ... I just realized that I need to install drivers to do that, don't I?

hawken

track mania kept me entertained for many an evening. class game, online is priceless

AstroZombie

(Sorry to bump this so late but I was out of town the past few days)

For the life of me, I cannot use my xbox360 controller to play Trackmania Nations via Steam. I installed the Vista drivers and everything, but Trackmania just does not seem to acknowledge that there is a game controller connected. Anyone have any ideas what it wrong here?

[Edit]
Seriously, just dicked around with this for a bit and am clueless;

- Can plug my controller in to a USB port, my (Vista) computer acknowledges it, four green lights on my controller blink repeatedly

- TMN acknowledges nothing other than my keyboard on the input screen

Really frustrating. The game seems like a lot of fun playing with my keyboard but I REALLY want to play it with an actual game controller. Not sure why my 360 controller does not seem to be recognized by TMN

Ged

Im not sure how to get the xbox360 controller working, Ive only used one on xp and we just installed the drivers and plugged it in and it worked. This was when I was doing work experience game testing at Lionhead but I havent had a chance to play with a controller like that since then.

Ive got a ps2 controller and it works in trackmania but the wrong buttons are used for acceleration and the wrong stick for turning and I cant change it at all?
so Im back on keyboard anyway .

Snowfly

I need buddies. What are your user names? Mine's snowfly

Japhir

added you
mine's Japhir, but i don't play a lot.