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Trackmania | List Price: $9.99
Discount Price: $2.48
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Platform: Windows XP
Brand: Enlight
Binding: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2005-06-04
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - 3D support
- Design, build, and race on your own tracks
- Online support
Creativity and Thrills! [Posted on 2007-09-04]
Last year, my then 9-year-old son and I found a demo of this game somewhere on the internet and he was immediately hooked. We've been through Trackmania original (reviewed here), Trackmania Sunrise, Trackmania Sunrise Extreme, the amazing-but-free Trackmania Nations ESWC, and now Trackmania United.
The fun never stops. In fact, that is one downside of this series of games: they're completely addicting. It's the easiest thing in the world for him to get started in the afternoon and put it a fight when it comes time for bed and he has to quit.
He's a huge Lego fan and quite addicted to driving games: the Trackmania series brings the creativity of Legos together with the thrill of first-person racing simulators. The game consists of creating outrageous tracks, then saving and driving them. he enjoys making virtually-undrivable tracks, and seeing how poorly his old dad does while trying to complete them.
He also enjoys making stop-motion animation, to the game's cinematic replay editing capabilities appeal as well. There is a huge subculture of trackmania video creators out there: next time you're on YouTube, search for Trackmania and see how creative these folks get.
The only things I could imagine to improve the experience of the TM series would be collision detection and a damage model. As it is, cars drive right through each other as though the others weren't there, which is, of course, completely unrealistic, but probably adds considerably to the game's blazing performance.
Perfect! [Posted on 2008-06-30]
This game is great for a 10 year old boy like me. It never gets boring and upgrading it to TMO makes it wonderful. But I would like to get TMU instead because it has all the enviorments.
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