Trackmania - Nations

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Rob1000100

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Trackmania: Nations is a new release from nadeo, it uses the same engine as TM:Sunrise. TM:Nations is not as much of a full game as Sunrise, although you couldn't expect it to be really as it is FREE. I think we had already missed the qualifing stage but none the less this is a good game. :)

--Homepage--
http://www.trackmanianations.com/

--Description--
For the first time in the history of eSport, a video game has been specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup and is being offered free of charge to the players of the entire planet so they may commence training for the qualifiers due to take place in 53 countries on Friday 27th of January. The Grand Final of ESWC will be held in Paris from June 28th to July the 2nd , in front of 40,000 people, where the best players from each country will battle it out for a prize of 400,000 dollars.

--Direct Download--
http://download.nvidia.com/downloads_emea/Trackmania_Nations/TmNationsESWC_Setup.exe
 
You don't need Trackmania Sunrise installed to play this?
Nadeo previously released a free expansion pack to Sunrise called "Extreme" with lots of great additions such as improved editor, more cars, etc... :)
 
downloading with a blazin' 24kB/sec speed.. :D


tnx for letting us know tho, looks cool!
 
Rob1000100 said:
hmm, I got it off that url at 250kB/s :confused:

really strange.. i keep on getting disconnected.

Might try a dl manager or something..



or maybe you can mail it to me? ;)
 
erm.. nevermind..

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/starforce/do-not-download-this-game-151652.php

We’re not here to point fingers or lay blame, because we all make mistakes. However, over the weekend, a few gaming sites posted on Trackmania Nations and even told their readers to download it. Prize money was even dangled for the online “free” competition. Thing is, the game is infested with malware.

The anti-PC copy protection site Boycott Starforce has listed Trackmania Nations as a game that carries Starforce (see Luke’s post below). Starforce is hidden and installs without the user’s consent or knowledge. These unwanted drivers are even linked to system instability and computer crashes. Yuck.
 
hmmm, starforce is the main reason that I never play Trackmania, I just cba to go disc hunting every time I want to play. I can't really see why a game like this needs starforce as I thought that was only CD protection. My only thought is that they ripped TM:Sunrise so purly that they just left everything as it was including the starforce (only a guess).
 
From the installer:

LICENSE TO USE TRACKMANIA NATIONS ESWC

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