TrackMania remade in Sunrise

By Tom Bramwell Published 13 October, 2005

Kinda like Counter-Strike: Source, but for sexy jumping cars.

Those joygiving stewards of the brilliant at Nadeo have decided that instead of releasing the old TrackMania to "sale-a-brate" its release on budget, it'd be far cooler to release an enhanced version of the original done up in the TrackMania Sunrise engine. Those guuuuuys. And there's a demo too, which you can grab on their site.

The enhanced budget version features various items added in Sunrise (an editor, painter, media tracker, multiplayer features) and even includes Platform and Stunt modes. Platform, you may recall, was one of the things we found most compulsive about the irrepressably compulsive Sunrise when we reviewed it earlier this year.

The demo version, now available for whatever it costs you to download 134MB, includes three Stunt races, three Platform challenges, various Puzzle races and three technical tracks in addition to the original Racing mode. In fact, it's all of the Desert stuff that appears in the full game - a quite considerable chunk of fun.

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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 (11) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Tejstar #1 6 years ago

    Downloading now...

  • paketep #2 6 years ago

    Very nice, but... will this expansion be free for us owners of the game?. Will they finally get rid of that StarForce sh*t?.

    Thought not :(

  • PearOfAnguish #3 6 years ago

    I love Nadeo.

  • fxgogo #4 6 years ago

    This is one awesome game and I hope the origional courses will be available to us sunrise owners. I can't believe this brilliant game is going for £4.95 at Game.

  • smelly #5 6 years ago

    GREAT!

    The first game was brilliant, the second one less so (but had better gfx engine).

    So first game with seconds graphics.. i'm sooo there!

  • ED209 #6 6 years ago

    What is StarForce?

  • smelly #7 6 years ago

    "What is StarForce? "

    A program which is installed as part of a game, and stops people copying said game easily. Pirates hate it as it's near impossible to crack easily, and you'll often see them poking their heads up on boards telling people it's in some way "evil" and try to convince you that it's in some way going to kill your pc.

    The reality is, the worst thing that'll happen is it'll make you reboot your pc after installing the game. Anyone else who tells you otherwise is talking garbage. Or believing one too many conspiracy theories put about by the pirating community.

  • paketep #8 6 years ago

    Smelly, I've had more problems than having to reboot, and I own both TM:o and TM:S. Believe me, I'm not talking garbage, and my problems are not just having to put the damned CD in the drive.

    Also, SF is not a program, is a device driver that sits there because distributors think they have the right to do whatever they want with *your* computer. And, sadly, when the game is as good as TM, they are right :(

    Edit: can't... speak... english...
    Edited by 1 at 13/10/05 @ 17:17

  • The Old Bill #9 6 years ago

    Bit harsh smelly. Starforce is a bugger, and it needs restricting.

  • Mashum #10 6 years ago

    What people dont like about starforce is that it interferes with the Operating system in a way that they don't want or expect a game to do, interposing it's device driver between XP and your DVD drive.
    Any communication between the OS and hardware is up the device manufacturer to figure out using M$'s specs and hopefully a boat load of testing.
    If there are ways in which device drivers can help anti-piracy measures then it's up to the industry, Microsoft and whatever device manufacturers to come to an agreement and do it properly, not like this.

  • ali-uk #11 6 years ago

    Cool, but this Starforce this has already been cracked.