The difference being that, in Challenge mode at least, you design your own route from A to B. It's split into two distinct modes, Challenge and Race, and the common goal is earn medals and unlock the next track by breaking the developer's lap record. And, this time, that fabled "one more go" is just a button press away, and not hidden among dust-fluffed Polo wrappers under the sofa.ĭeveloped by newcomer Nadeo and due out in Europe this November 28th from publishing upstart Digital Jesters, TrackMania is a racing game construction kit where the next part won't cost you £4.99 and take two hours to rescue from the moulded plastic wrapping. But, crucially, it still lets us build outlandish racetracks full of right-angle turns, loops, jumps and speed boost pads, and then race around them. It cuts out the mess, safeguards the kittens and replaces high-pitched whizzing with manly engine noises (and, er, jangly banjo music). What good news, then, that somebody has finally developed a suitable electronic replacement: TrackMania. Forget cranberry jelly, stuffing, Peggy Mitchell and dreaming of snow, our afternoon activity of choice was weaving bits of plastic track through an Amazon of chair legs, discarded wrapping paper and crumpled Christmas cards - eventually tugging on a flimsy plastic trigger control and watching a toy racer catapulted halfway across the room and into Uncle Biggles' house of cards. I don't know about you, but Christmas at my house was always a battery-fuelled orgy of high-pitched racing cars.
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