TrackMania United Forever
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If you would rather paint cars than build tracks, TM United Forever offer that as well. The car editor is simple enough but allows for some very creative and professional looking designs to be painted on any of the seven available cars. Once you are done painting it up, you can take your car on-line to pimp it to all the other racers out there.

The variety of environments range from dry deserts to snowy peaks.

Finally, TM United Forever allows all you would-be video editors out there to record your best runs or stunts and share them as well. Cut together the best parts or upload the whole run. Edit your camera angles and if you are feeling particularly cheeky, add some derogatory text (as seems to be popular practice). Perhaps you might want to record your newly painted car running through your own uniquely designed track in order to entice players to download car, track, or both.

As you can see, TM United Forever is really on the forefront of user created content. To help out with all of this extra content, TM United Forever has a built in web-based browser that lets you visit all the best TrackMania related websites and forums to download whatever you want while in-game. The browser is simple and no frills and the home page is a bit sparse, but once you know what pages are worth visiting (like the TrackMania Exchange) then it can be pretty handy when seeking out some new content.

Graphically speaking, the game is not pushing the envelope, nor is the art direction particularly original. The visuals are adequate but sometimes do not hold up under close scrutiny. On the plus side, the PC requirements to play the game are not terribly high either, which I consider to be a big advantage for a PC game (especially one that relies so heavily on purchase through download). Best of all the game is perfectly suited to play on my slightly underpowered laptop which a major contributing factor to my ability to succumb to the addictive nature of the game.



Highs
Highly addictive, simple and deep controls, excellent editor and focus on user created content, backed by a well-established community, relatively low system requirements.

Lows
Graphics can be a bit bland, some of the environments and cars offered are not as fun as others.

Final Verdict
TrackMania United Forever is truly a great deal. It offers all of the great things I have already mentioned and it is backed by a wonderful and truly international community. Not since my World of Warcraft addiction back in '05 have I had so much fun meeting people from all over the world. And without all the terrible side effects (aversion to light, disregard to hygene, poor diet, etc).

88%

Jun 13, 2008

Review by Richard Lackinger.

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