Trackmania Nations

TrackMania Nations ESWC (called TMN), is a racing game which the principle is : races on tracks or maps built by the players, without collisions where the final ranking is determined by his own conduct. This game is totally free, and therefore downloadable via the Internet since January 28, 2006. The cars available are between Formula 1 and buggy, each country has its own color of vehicle. All caracteristics of cars are the same : Speed, dress, size of the car, just the skins or the avatars of players can change.

A solo mod is available but it is on the Internet that the game show us all his interest. The multiplayer mod is meanwhile to play with anyone, in any country, at any time on servers online.
Several sub-modes of play are available :
- Time Attack : The players are trying to make the best time on one or more laps. The time of the party of time attack is determinated by the server.
- Rounds : all players start at the same time, with the aim of achieving the best place, to score as many points as possible until someone reaches the number of points needed to close the party in progress (determined by the server).
- Teams : the game mode usually used for matches between the two teams. It incorporates the principle of the method by rounds, but here is the team that will have the most points accumulated during the lap which won a point for the classification. A match is in 3, 5 or 7 points in the most of cases.

The collisions of the game being absent by choice of Nadeo, players concentrate them only to have the most perfect trajectory and have a management of the drift to do the best time. Players use the graphic motor to win every hundredth of a second by squeezing turns, therefore, final times often
are very closed. We can find on a track, many 90° or 180°, loopings, wallrides, incredible jumps, boost to increase or decrease your speed, also grass changing grip of the car...Many types of tracks are to observate, mains are Fullspeed, Technic, Minitrack, Multilaps.

TrackMania Nations has been developed specifically for the ESWC (Electronic Sports World Cup) 2006 which was disputed Bercy in Paris in the summer of 2006. Qualifications for the ESWC are difficult, specially in France, because most of the best players are french. During the season before the ESWC, players have to participate at many LAN organized and approved by the ESWC to win points to qualified them at the French Cup. It's at this French Cup where the sixty best players of France race to be on the top 2 to be qualified to the ESWC. In other Countries, they are others methods to send players at the ESWC. Many other competitions in the form of leagues or tournaments are organised on the Internet (Nations Cup, Stadium Team Championship, Giant Cup, xG-Cup, TN-Arena). It happens between teams or single player in excited races and with high-level. Like all players knows, the words to say before each match are HF (Have Fun) and GL (Good Luck) and after are GG (Good Game).

Since the start of TMN, the level has increased considerably, and good players are proliferating in an incredible way. Online players are still a ten of thousands on the servers, and as "Hylis" the Director of Nadeo says the February 16, 2008 : "Trackmania gathers on the internet a loyal following [...]. Over 10000000 players, at least 100000/150 000 people who play every day." Around Trackmania Nations, a large community contributes each day at the success of the game : servers, tracks, skins, videos, streaming in live of matchs and many others things.

The success of the game and his selection to the ESWC are his free, the large number of tracks (more than 100000) and a friendly community of gamers.

Links : www.toxmania.com