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Get it while it's hot: TrackMania Nations Forever released for free photo

The latest and greatest TrackMania game is finally upon us! Unfortunately, the game's official Web site is having some technical issues at this time, so you'll have to get the 500 MB download elsewhere.

What's new in TrackMania Nations Forever you ask? For starters, cheapskate players will finally be able to play online with those who purchased TrackMania United. Should you opt to download Nations Forever, you'll also find 65 brand new tracks and a slew of features designed to intensify the "competitive spirit."

Basically, if you have ever played a TrackMania game before, you'll want to check this one out. It's the same great game you've come to love, only prettier. Now hurry up and download it!

[Thanks, Mabec!]

TrackMania Nations Forever - Full Free Game Available Now

Launched two years ago, TrackMania Nations became a true video game phenomenon. The free downloadable racing game attracted an unbelievable number of players around the world who were obsessed with the game's fast cars, spectacular tracks, single- and multiplayer play and simple yet powerful tools for creating tracks and race videos. For the past two years, it has been installed more than 30 million times and nearly four million players have created an account to play the game online on the game's servers.

Its highly awaited sequel, TrackMania Nations Forever, is available today as a free download. TrackMania Nations Forever offers a new complete "Forever" version of the Stadium environment, a complete solo mode and 65 brand new, progressively difficult tracks. TrackMania Nations Forever will unite an even larger number of players thanks to its engaging multiplayer modes, innovative online functions and revolutionary interactivity between players.

For TrackMania Nations Forever, Nadeo studio chose to take advantage of the PC's capacities as a gaming, creative and communications platform in order to allow a greater number of players to share a unique gaming experience:

Florent Castelnerac, Director of Nadeo studio, explains:
"The PC is the premier gaming platform when it comes to the number of casual and expert players. To satisfy this wide range of players, we designed the game for everyone instead of trying to focus on the average gamer. We have put a lot of effort in developing the competitive spirit and challenge between players in order to present a game adapted to big e-sports competitions while remaining captivating and accessible to players who have less gaming experience. Even if you play Nations Forever quietly alone, you can still be ranked in the world, your country, your city or even in your list of friends that you can create by inviting friends to join like in Facebook or MySpace. It is up to each player to set his/her goals - become one of the best players in the world or just impress friends. These ladders are adapted to everyone and they add ten times more interest to solo or multiplayer modes. Always searching for new ways to add interest and unite an even larger number of players, we explored the possibilities the PC offers as a universal communication platform: for example, a system that allows you to challenge your friends by mail or Messenger. Since the game is free, fun and works on most computers, there is a big chance that many people that you know will play it. Finally, as for creativity, the PC is the only game platform that allows players to easily create additional game content, and the game comes with powerful creative tools like the track editor. We increased creative possibilities even more with richer, more complete editors while making creation more accessible to a larger number of players with a simplified track editor. Tomorrow, we will see exceptional creations from the four corners of the world that players will be able to exchange for free and easily. It's a tremendous motivation for the entire development team."

The release of TrackMania Nations Forever will also allow the convergence of the huge TrackMania community. For the first time, players of the free versions will be able to play online with players from the retail version of TrackMania United on servers dedicated to the Stadium environment that is common to both games. Players of the TrackMania United retail version also gain a brilliant free extension named "United Forever." In addition to being compatible with Nations Forever, this extension offers many bonuses - including tracks that have never been seen before, new design blocks for the game environments and a spectacular graphics update for the three historic environments Desert, Snow and Rally.


Links to download the free game TrackMania Nations Forever (500 MB)

Worthplaying
http://www.worthdownloading.com/game.php?gid=3261

GamersHell
http://www.gamershell.com/download_24766.shtml

ComputerGames.ro
http://computergames.ro/en/downloads/viewitem/id/10640/name/trackmania-nations-forever-free-full-game.html

FileFront
http://files.filefront.com/TrackMania+Nations+Forever+Free+Full+Game/;10013754;/fileinfo.html

GameSpot
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/trackmanianationsforever/download.html?sid=6189199

Gamezone
http://downloads.gamezone.com/demos/d21897.htm

PC Gameworld
http://www.gwn.com/downloads/file.php/id/7405/TrackMania_Nations_Forever.html

FilePlanet
http://www.fileplanet.com/185804/180000/fileinfo/TrackMania-Nations-Forever-(Free-Game)

Internode
http://games.internode.on.net/filelist.php?filedetails=16799

FileShack
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/12049/TrackMania+Nations+Forever+-+Free+Game

Download the images of TrackMania Nations Forever (logo + screens) (10 MB)
http://www.trackmania-lejeu.com/files/press_kit_tmnf.rar

TrackMania Official Website
http://www.trackmania.com

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thisissami's Avatar
thisissami at 04/16/2008 12:06
hell yeah!!! track mania nations was the shit 2 or 3 years ago! now i'll just have to somehow emulate windows on my mac to play it...
CelicaCrazed's Avatar
CelicaCrazed at 04/16/2008 12:07
And I'm downloading. I guess I can delete the original TMN as this seems to be a whole separate game.
Kayka's Avatar
Kayka at 04/16/2008 12:15
how bout some fnfighting?
Fana7ic's Avatar
Fana7ic at 04/16/2008 12:22
@thisissami: Why emulate it when you can run windows native via bootcamp?
Tuxy's Avatar
Tuxy at 04/16/2008 12:28
This should be available on XBL.
brosef's Avatar
brosef at 04/16/2008 12:31
*agrees with Tuxy*
njsykora's Avatar
njsykora at 04/16/2008 12:34
Downloading immediately.
Mabec's Avatar
Mabec at 04/16/2008 12:37
brosef's Avatar
brosef at 04/16/2008 12:48
Damn, just watched the gameplay video. There is NO WAY my computer will run this. :(
SmDFrylock's Avatar
SmDFrylock at 04/16/2008 12:52
Any word if star-force is attached to this download.

I know previous trackmania's had it.
Mabec's Avatar
Mabec at 04/16/2008 13:04
Not on STEAM (Where you also get the same content and even more)
That's all i can confirm.
Eschatos's Avatar
Eschatos at 04/16/2008 13:09
Will download as soon as I'm done with Titan Quest.
DeusPayne's Avatar
DeusPayne at 04/16/2008 14:03
brosef: it scales pretty well from what I understand. Just turn off blurring, AA, etc, and it'll run fine I bet.

I've been playing all day. So good. (Even if it does end up having star force)
The-Excel's Avatar
The-Excel at 04/16/2008 14:05
Add The-Excel if you want to see what it's like to face the best Classic Controller players in Virginia.
tsunamikitsune's Avatar
tsunamikitsune at 04/16/2008 14:58
Awesome, downloading now.
NotAZombie's Avatar
NotAZombie at 04/16/2008 15:01
@ Deus

What's star force?
Jordan Grim Devore's Avatar
Jordan Grim Devore at 04/16/2008 15:21
Starforce is not included.
DeusPayne's Avatar
DeusPayne at 04/16/2008 15:24
Starforce was a highly controversial DRM daemon that was installed along with the other trackmanias, even the other free one. Which is why it didn't make any sense... free game with DRM, it's just wrong.
king3vbo's Avatar
king3vbo at 04/16/2008 15:50
NICE! I love me my trackmania
animateria's Avatar
animateria at 04/16/2008 16:39
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Downloading right now!
thisissami's Avatar
thisissami at 04/16/2008 18:26
@fana7ic

because my computer (original macbook) is definitely incapable of running any seriously graphical games (intel GMA 950 processor). therefore if i run windows in a program like parallels, i don't need to reboot every time i want to use the 2 or 3 programs i want to use in windows that i don't have on a mac... maybe my choice of words wasn't good, seeing as how this would be virtualization, not emulation...
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 04/16/2008 18:55
Hells yes downloading nao. =D
Satsumomo's Avatar
Satsumomo at 04/16/2008 22:27
Oh nice, it BSOD's me when I start a race.

Rig with 8800GT.
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 04/17/2008 00:01
Hot damn this thing is great.
Squeewupiwupi's Avatar
Squeewupiwupi at 04/17/2008 04:29
It's available on steam now! Steam Community compatible and everything. I'm getting all my friends to d/l this ASAP.
Ali D's Avatar
Ali D at 04/17/2008 06:23
Downloading now. This is a good move and it's something that Steam should do more: either release older games for a really cheap price (like the id back catalogue) or release a stripped down multi-player component (like the F.E.A.R. one that was out a while ago.
yairagat's Avatar
yairagat at 04/17/2008 07:46
My rig is also with 8800GT, and guess what - game crashes on launch.
Badly tested game is Badly tested.
Ali D's Avatar
Ali D at 04/17/2008 08:40
That's weird, as my PC is a piece of shit and I've been playing the game for the last half hour with no problems at all. That's PC gaming for ya!
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 04/17/2008 10:40
yay i love trackmania
Super Cool Guest from the Future's Avatar
Super Cool Guest from the Future at 04/20/2008 00:32
Fuck yeah this is awesome!
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 04/20/2008 04:54
Ahem: Macs?
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