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News from Nadeo Website

TRACKMANIA ON NINTENDO DS… IT'S OFFICIAL!

We are pleased to announce with this first teaser video that TrackMania will officially be released in Q4 2008 on Nintendo DS™!

TrackMania, the much-loved series of racing games focusing on fun and frantic racing, now makes its stunning debut on the Nintendo DS. Far from hardcore driving simulations, TrackMania is based on the fun and the spectacular aspect of racing. With TrackMania DS, you drive at mind-blowing speeds on incredible tracks made of jumps, loops, turbo boost pads and many other crazy design elements. Just like the renowned PC version, TrackMania DS will offer an amazing track editor that will let you create your own unique and exciting tracks from hundreds of different design blocks, giving the game near-infinite replay value.

Watch the TrackMania DS trailer (streaming)

Download the teaser video (11.7 Mb)

Download the 2 images (581 Kb)

TrackMania DS has been in development for several months by the English studio Firebrand, known for their previous work on titles such as Race Driver: Create & Race for the Nintendo DS.

“We are very happy with this partnership with Firebrand,” said Cédric Lagarrigue, CEO of Focus Home Interactive, “Their technology and background guarantee TrackMania DS will be a solid adaptation of the PC game, while also making the most of unique features of the DS. The fact that some members of the Firebrand team are true TrackMania fans definitely convinced us to trust them, and the first results are spectacular. We believe that the Nintendo DS console is well-suited for more casual games than to realistic simulations, and TrackMania DS, with the fun it brings in solo as well as in multiplayer mode, along with its well-known track editor, should find itself quite a nice place on Nintendo’s handheld.”

If this is done properly, this could be superb. What does everyone else think?

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It should be great but I would also like it to appear on XBLA/PSN.
It really is the perfect game for XBLA/PSN. Why it hasn't even been mentioned is beyond me. Seeing how disappointing Mad Tracks was on Xbox just made me want TM on there more....

Agreed 100% it would make the perfect Live Arcade game and not having a PC it's something I've always wanted to play, a cut down DS version doesn't excite much.

Perhaps they wanted more than 35% of the revenue...

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At the risk of repeating, XBLA please. I loved TM: Sunrise on the PC, it's more like slot cars than a racing game, just so much fun, and the thought of some multiplayer on user-created tracks is pretty sweet.

A DS one though? Was that Toca Race Driver Create And Race any good? It seems about the nearest to what TM would be like.

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It'd be quite nice, especially since the developers would not be able to screw themselves over again by insisting on using an invasive, unreliable and generally shite copy protection system.

I believe with the new update to United, they're doing away with Starforce? I remember reading that somewhere..

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It'd be quite nice, especially since the developers would not be able to screw themselves over again by insisting on using an invasive, unreliable and generally shite copy protection system.

Trackmania United hasn't had Starforce on its Steam release almost from the beginning, not that that tempted more than about two other people on here to play it ;)

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