Let's get this straight, I love Trackmania.

It's one of the best racing games ever, and focuses more on the outrageous tracks and the speed needed to tear through them, than pimping out your ride, and then tearing threw the boring tracks at speeds unknown to the living.

But oh gracious Cthulhu, is Nations Forever, the runt of the Trackmania pack.


Let's start off with the good. It's got everything a TrackMania fan could want, speed, tracks, track editor, and an extensive one at that. So extensive, that you can create a track that twists and turns 300 times, and all you have to do to get through it is press forward on your keyboard.


Now the bad.
The previous Trackmania Nations featured a world standard online mode, which at best, was the most horrible experience for many, it lagged so hard, you didn't know if you where moving or not. The track selection was preordered, and sometimes, people threw in impossible tracks, and made it so that you couldn't vote to move on to the next track. And logging on and off was even a hassle, as sometimes, it would not let you.

TrackMania Nations Forever, didn't really change much about the only multiplayer mode in the whole damn game, 'cept for the fact that logging on is a little smoother, and that for some reason, Laps doesn't lag as much as EVERYTHING else does.

Apart from that, the game is somewhat a little glitched, Time Trial mode is a little unfair for Gold Medal standards, and the game lags like hell^134*6.

Mind you, I've tried TrackMania Nations Forever on 3 different connections, one of them having gaming PC specs to boot.

While the single player experience is very nice and well done, where the game is supposed to shine, is more dull than a rusty old broken down Chevy Pickup.

TrackMania Nations Forever gets a 5/10.