Quick Look: TrackMania United Forever

YES! TRACKMANIA

do you have to be a maniac to play trackmania?

so close 

do you have to be a maniac to play trackmania?

Why a Trackmania QL now? Seems odd haha 
 
I like how they said they were gunna try out the other environments, and immediately started playing more stadium tracks for the rest of the video.

FOOOOOOOREVER!!

Yeah Trackmania!

I am so excited for Trackmania 2

I put so many hours into Trackmania Sunrise, very excited for the second one to come out! 

Why a Trackmania QL now? Seems odd haha

Dude, this one of the only series where every game is awesome!

The multiplayer servers TrackMania United Forever has to offer are always insane. Sometimes they're good, too!

Also, I so dig the original music for the stadium.

EDIT: That final track is so the Trackmania I remember and love. Great stuff.

I really enjoy Trackmania. And I'm not sure why.

Amazing tunes.

I actually did a doubletake on seeing a quicklook for Trackmania.
 
Why now? Why not when TM United came out, or when the Forever stuff came out, or the Star edition stuff came out?

Look in the upper left corner at about 5:54 or so ;)

Trackmania HUDs are the single greatest part of the game.

"OH! OH! OH! OHHH! OH DA DA DAAAAA!!"

Trackmania is a lot like what you imagined while you were pushing Hot Wheels across your kitchen floor. The genre should just be "toy cars."

I bought this while it was on sale last week for the Ubisoft sale on Steam. Best $10 I have spent on a game in a long time.

This game seems awesome. After a few dull Quick Looks it's nice to see a game they actually like again.

Thought this was going to bebeta of TrackMania 2, then i realised as i started it that the beta ain't out until July but I guess it's nice that Jeff and Ryan finally come in contact of this series and might watch out the new game when it finally hits in september.

Fantastic game, I've had it for a few years now. Basically Super Meat Boy as a racing game.

This game really looks cool but at this point I might as well wait for trackmania 2.

Totally know what game I'm reinstalling on Steam.

Is the video messed up? Whenever i hit about 22 minutes on it the bottom half does that whole weird compression thing, streaming and progressive. Disabling hardware acceleration did nothing to help, i'm on firefox 4 so yeah. Looks like a fun game, though i'll never play it myself

Random.
 
Played Trackmania Nations Forever for a bit a couple years back. It was effin' crazy but it was good fun.

@Chavtheworld said:

Why a Trackmania QL now? Seems odd haha

Eh, it's a slow week for game releases, so I'm not surprised. I've never actually seen what this game is, so I'm totally cool with a QL of it.

Perfect representation of this game.
 
They had a track you can finish in 10 seconds,  and something completely, fantastically retarded that takes 30 minutes to finish, so they covered the full Trackmania spectrum of madness.

No personal interest, but it's awesome that games like this exist. This could never happen on consoles. Like Ryan says it really seems like a continuation of the late 90's-early 00's mod scene for FPS.

I love this stupid game so much...

do you have to be a maniac to play trackmania?

I feel like this was just on sale on steam and I missed it....

naked lady at 05:55

Do you believe in life after love?

Amazing tunes.

Do you believe in life after love?

I actually did a doubletake on seeing a quicklook for Trackmania.  Why now? Why not when TM United came out, or when the Forever stuff came out, or the Star edition stuff came out?

Everyone who's interested should give the free version a look. It's basically all the stadium stuff (the majority of what Jeff was playing), and the only limitation is that for every 5 tracks you play you have to spectate 1. Plus it's on steam!

This looks like a modern Stunts.

This makes me want to play surf maps in Counter-Strike...

do you believe in life after love?

I remember playing Trackmania Nations quite a while ago. It was strangely addictive. I think this QL is very representative of what the game is like.

Dear Giantbomb and viewers. 
 
Trackmania is all about drifting. You are just not playing on high enough lvl (no bashing) and/or not on the fullspeed tracks. If you see high lvl trackmania, its always on fullspeed tracks and its all about drifting. Once you learn to drift right, its what all the game is about. 
 
Some ppl have made a nice video of high lvl trackmania play called "Belgium will do it"  http://vimeo.com/6128910  
 As you will find Jeff, if you play enough, you dont let off the gas, you just drift ;)
 
Trackmania is the best LAN-party game, especially if no one has played before. Its free, very easy setup and alot of premade tracks. The track editor is very easy to use, and with a little trial and error you can pretty fast learn to use all the tools (into movie, changing camera angles ect.)
 
Again this is not bashing, just a low lvl review of the game.

I feel like the Ricker should be involved in this QL

Awesome. I wish they would show more of the other environments. Island is by far my favorite. I also dig Desert, and to some extent, Bay. But Island is the superior environment. It's also fun to see how different people use the game! I don't ever touch random online servers, I only play custom tracks with friends. So yeah, the game has a built-in friends list and stuff like that. And usually I make tracks more than I race them. I swear I must've spent a couple hunred hours just making tracks, between TM Sunrise, United and Nations...
 
Now and then I'll feel creative but don't know what to pour it into, so I'll start up Trackmania and put on the Giant Bombcast and just spend two hours making yet another, insane Island track. Finish it up, try to beat my own gold time on it, then never touch it again. And just doing that is a hell lot of fun, for some reason!
 
@Hudlommen: 
I disagree! I think the best Stadium tracks are the ones that require proper speed management. The Stadium cars are the most "realistic" of the bunch, so they're well suited for more technical tracks. I, myself, am a huge fan of completely out of control insanity, though. That's why I mostly play Island tracks, or Stadium ones that use almost nothing but dirt tiles.

Looking forward to a Trackmania 2 TNT in a few months, great QL. :)

A lot of people like this, yet I'm the only person in the world who considers Gripshift to be a legitimately great game. 
 
The mind boggles.

I've watched 42 minutes of Trackmania. OK.

"Worth noting that Jeff is playing this on a KEYBOARD" 
 
"No I am not" 
 
Oh, Ryan. 
 
The ghost flying out of you at the start of each race looks really disorientating.