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TrackMania on Wii DS

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TrackMania is a Racing game available on the Wii DS. It can be played in Spltscreen Competitive modes.

TrackMania is a Racing game. Racing games, although sometimes seen as a sporting sub category, are a well established video game genre in their own right.

TrackMania can be played in a Spltscreen mode. Third Person games view the world from over the right shoulder of the character being controlled. This enables you to see the character you are controlling as well as their surrounds. Although not as immersive as first person, third person games enable more complex moves and interactions with the environment.

TrackMania can be played in a Competitive mode. Competitive Multiplayer games provide experiences where players compete against each other and the computer. Obviously lending itself to sports and team games, these competitive engagements have also dominated the shooting and fighting genres because of the direct combat and expertise involved in each. Although these games were originally played in a split screen style, more recently they are played online via services such as PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and the Nintendo Wireless Connection.

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TrackMania

TrackMania Wii offers not only a much needed serious racing game on the platform, but also the ability to create your own dream circuits.

The popular community based PC racing game arrives on the Wii. Happily, the track creation and driving retain their freshness while being tailored for the Wii's controls. You use the Wii-mote and Nun-chuck or Classic Controller to drive racing cars around the spectacular tracks full of ramps, loops and turbo boosts.
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Reviews

Tech Gamer review Sat, 04 Dec 2010

Track Mania Wii strips the racing down to man against tarmac. A little sparse compared to other Wii games the genius here needs a little work to uncover, but for serious time-trial racers this has been a long time coming.

In case you haven't come across it already, TrackMania is a car racing videogame that enables the player community to create their own tracks. It uses a building block process to keep things simple, a little like designing a Scalextric track.
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Perpetual Gamer review Mon, 11 Aug 2008

When people look back at the games that made Nintendo's handheld console huge, Mario Kart DS will be firmly at the top of the list. Please ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you to the next big racer on the DS, Track Mania. All the realistic physics of driving and a rewarding sense that you playing a good grown up driving game without any yoshing about. Firebrand Games have brought us a serious racer on the DS that feels just perfect.

You are given three driving styles/environments to choose from; stadium (grand-prix style), desert (American muscle) and rally (dirt tracks and cars). Each environment's car handles pleasingly differently making the experiences varied and rewarding. The lighting and feel of each track is spot on, even giving a nice sense of time of day, which is impressive on the limited power of the DS. There are times during the race that you can sit back and enjoy the pleasingly atmospheric scenes, the rest of the time is high speed racing; any slips of concentration usually ending up off road as the other racers zip by.
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