Nadeo announces TrackMania 2 for PC

By Tom Bramwell Published 21 September, 2009

Due out in 2010.

Nadeo has announced TrackMania 2 for PC at the Paris Games Festival.

According to reports from the show (thanks Blue) and YouTube footage of the announcement, it's due out in 2010.

The section shown was from the Valley environment - reportedly one of three tilesets - and despite an impressive degree of visual fidelity the target computer for the game is one that can run the existing TrackMania Nations Forever.

Apparently the track editor now allows you to create geometry and textures from scratch, and away from that there are four gameplay modes - cup, championship, team and co-operative - with split-screen support included.

TrackMania first made its name just over five years ago with its brilliant combination of instant-reset checkpoint racing and tracks that you often had to finish designing yourself in order to find the optimum route to the target time.

It's gone through several iterations since, including the excellent TrackMania Sunrise, which introduced Platform mode, and has also made its way to Nintendo DS in surprisingly solid form. We rub it.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • LazyDan #1 2 years ago

    I always liked that playing it in multiplayer decked your car out in your country's flag, made me feel all patriotic like - hence beating the French had never been so satisfying.

  • Eraser #2 2 years ago

    Awesome. I've always been a fan of Trackmania.
    We used to play Trackmania Nations at work during lunch and we kept an Excel sheet with finishing positions, awarding points for a higher finishing position and creating rankings out of that. Good times.

  • insincere_dave #3 2 years ago

    Would absolutely love this on XBLA. A constant stream of DLC for Trials and TrackMania and you'd never need to buy another racer.

  • Matthew_Hornet #4 2 years ago

    What do you rub it against?

    Do I want to know?

  • The_Pope #5 2 years ago

    Awesome!

    TBH I'm *still* playing the current games. Logged over 40-hours of track time already. Just scraping together the last few remaining medals and clawing my way to the top of the world rankings. I'm 21,696th out of 3.65 million players :)

  • the_mtfr #6 2 years ago

    Unbelievable graphics. And if the gameplay remains as fun... I'll lock myself in the house (again) when it's released. Go Frenchies!

  • YourMessageHere #7 2 years ago

    I like Trackmania, and I think Nadeo are a great firm - I reckon their huge focus on user-made content is very forward-looking (doing with racing what LBP does with platforming, but years earlier), and I wholly approve of them giving out Nations free. Nice to hear of this.

  • Baruni-kun #8 2 years ago

    Me and me old housemates truly loved this game, it would be perfect on 360... come on, ubisoft!