![]() Strap line, but actually the single-player mode serves as a healthy tutorial and a juicy carrot to lure you in. But to really take advantage of the 'sand box' track creation mode, which gives you a blank slate to play with in one of the game's three terrain types (snow, desert and rally), you will need to earn Coppers, the game's currency, and buy up some of the more exotic track pieces from the in-game shop.Perhaps it's a bit cynical to lock away most of the track editor's potential from the start, especially given the 'Design it! You don't have to worry whether the hot dog stand is making any money, because there is no hot dog stand - instead, you just get to revel in the enormity and lunacy of your looping death-trap and then either scoot around it yourself or upload it (at a few Kb in size) to another TrackManiac. It's like the roller coaster building aspect of RollerCoaster Tycoon given center-stage. And racing isn't even the point! Although TrackMania is devilishly addictive to race around, and completing the developer's opening salvo of 24 sometimes fiendish tracks to gold medal standard will happily swallow an evening and leave you gasping for more, the gimmick that makes the headlines is the construction element, which gives you a point A and a point B, a few pieces of track and a target time.Building tracks from the ground up is tremendous fun. The key to TrackMania's brilliance is clearly ramps - they make the difference between a bunch of matchbox cars zooming around in an entertaining physics demo and the most addictive precision-racer in ages. When you got bored in GTA, ramps were there for you, fueling endless hours of cunning stunts. When you had a bike or a skateboard as a kid, most of the fun was going up and down ramps. Eventually, 300 different blocks will become available, enabling the player to create an impressive track incorporating up to 2,000 blocks.Everyone loves ramps. ![]() ![]() In the beginning, players will have only a few building blocks from the catalog with which to create their race track, but as they solve puzzles, obtain medals, post faster track times, and complete challenges, they earn 'Copper,' which can be used to obtain more building blocks and better race tracks. The TrackMania server is designed to promote a player community, where fans can enjoy more intense and exciting tracks, created by other gamers like themselves.When playing TrackMania for the first time, players will have three environments to choose from - desert, countryside, and snow - each with its own car and unique driving characteristics. Though playable over a LAN for multiplayer action, gamers can log on to Nadeo's server to receive newly created track building blocks as they are made available. ![]() With its own dedicated server, Nadeo's TrackMania lets players gear up for online racing competitions. ![]()
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