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Trackmania United Forever Star Edition is on sale for 75% off today for day 3 of the Steam Ubisoft Week Sale. This is basically an upgraded version of Trackmania Nations Forever, which you can play for free on Steam already. Look in the Free games post for more details.
Here’s a good explaination I saw on the forums on what United Forever offers over Nations Forever:
It depends, if you buy United you get seven different environments, the vehicles in each environment handle really differently and it gives you a ton more variety than just the Stadium environment that you get in Nations. If you like to play online a lot though, it seems like there aren’t a lot of United-only servers. Although there are plenty out there, the majority are Nations servers which (I think) you could just as easily join without having to pay for United.
So what’s the Star Edition?
Star edition was a free update to United Forever that added a new single player “Star Tracks” feature. It’s much like the basic single player racing in Nations/United, only with tracks entirely made by users of the editor instead of Nadeo. I think Nadeo hand picked the tracks for this one, but I might be wrong.
The important thing is that it adds a second single player racing campaign with some sweet brand new, but a bit harder/longer, races.
It’s still got all the regular game content. Think of it as an added bonus. So basically in TM United you’ve got:
-Nations’s single player racing tracks from the free TM.
-United’s racing tracks in every enviorment.
-The Star racing tracks, some of the best fan made tracks around, now made into an offical collection for a single player campaign.
Trackmania United Forever Star Edition = $10.00 / £5.00 / €7.50