Quick Look: TrackMania 2 Stadium

Do you believe in life after love?

Now THIS is the Trackmania that I recognizse. Happy to see that Jeff is keeping up Giant Bomb's first class Trackmania 2 coverage.

This looks exactly like the first Trackmania. What's different?

eh

I would like to know also.

Kinda weird watching this without horrific dubstep in the background.

Anyone able to tell me the name of the song at the beginning of the QL?"

POONWRANGLER69

damn. does anyone know where to find a audio clip of the trackmania car horn?

I can feel something inside me say, I really don't think you're strong enough.

Can i have a hamburger where the buns have bun shaped hot dogs in them?

This sucks. :(

You guys are listening to Lindsey Stirling! Good choice.

Patrick retweeting Cher's dumbass tweets makes this open beta so timely.

Some dope Lindsey Sterling tracks up in here.

WHOOOOOOOOOOO is better than CANNNNNNYOOOOOOOOOOOOON?!?!?!?!?!

Stadium is who.

And finally someone uses good music on their server. <3 Lil Ol' Band Outta Texas

Trackmania 2 is depressing, no one really plays anymore and the servers they do have only got some 15-30 second tracks with little variety. Man...what coulda been.

First person to make a Wario Stadium track wins.

Huh, I was really digging the first track for some reason.

That track was Minimal Beat.

FREMONT REPRESENT!

You took the words right out of my mouth. It seems like no one at Nadeo has taken the time to evaluate new ideas before they're shoved out the door. Not the front-end interface, not the ties to Shootmania, and certainly not the total separation of what are essentially different pieces of the same game. Off-kilter charm is not a substitute for polish and careful implementation.

As it is, I don't imagine I'll be buying into Trackmania 2.

@blalala said:

There are tons of people playing, check this out!

Holy shit, huge player count servers exist!? Back when I played it was all 40 or 50 max...

I am down with poonwrangler69.

Thank you sir!

Best name I've seen in years: poonWrangler69

Jeff and Vinny need to get footlong hot dogs. That way, you don't need to buy two and/or a hamburger as well.

Good to hear that TrackMania 2 is now on Steam. I might now buy it.

I think we're just about due for another TrackMania TNT...

At least have Jeff playing in the background or something. TNT needs more dubstep Cher tracks.

Looks fun, but too much effort for my taste.

So... This is Trackmania Nations, only this one costs money? Cause, honestly, I can't see the difference between the two.

You are the new Shakespear sir. I salute you.

I've only just started watching this video, but poonwrangler69 already makes it worth it.

WOOOOOORD.

vinny's air horn noise made me feel like i was listening to a world premier of a hip hop song

Is ping all that relevant in Trackmania? I thought it pretty much only used the connection to display the ghosts of other players, download tracks and music and post your times, but that you actually played locally.

@phantomgardener: It's on a new engine and paying ten dollars to support a game they gave out for free isn't really a bad deal? I know you can get it for free but maybe support the game if you played a lot of the first.

Also new blocks for tracks and the ability to import 3d models for use in tracks.

Does anyone know if the original Trackmania is still going?

Guess it goes to show that not everything that is popular can be profited from. It is too bad that they messed up TM2 with all this front-end software that doesn't work and wasted time focusing on Shootmania when they didn't really know what the community demand/response would be. Especially, since there are so many shooters out there, and plus a few good F2P shooters to boot.

@hellbound: Union City in the house!

Hmm, can you still play Nations for free?

I love these games! I hope this takes off like the free version did. They really need to do something to rev up the user base though.

Trackmania, never change!

It's not picking up my 360 controller. Can't configure it, what's the deal?

anybody else have the same problem?

@redgamer4: If you drop the beat, they will come