Nadeo, developers of the massively played online racing series, TrackMania, have come up trumps with their free TrackMania Nations ESWC game!

For the first time in the history of eSport, a video game has been specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup and is being offered free of charge to players of the entire planet so they may commence training for the qualifiers due to take place in 53 countries on Friday 27th of January. The Grand Final of ESWC will be held in Paris from June 28th to July 2nd, in front of 40,000 people, where the best players from each country will battle it out for a prize of 400,000 dollars.

This special version features a brand new environment, the Stadium, and a revolutionary new gameplay designed for Nadeo's own custom cars. Nadeo has pulled the technological rabbit from the hat with their own brand game engine, featuring the series' best graphics yet, finely tuned for the latest generation graphics cards, not forgetting simpler machines so that no one around the world has a technical freeze out on the race track. With the online in-game ladder, players can customize their cars and avatars and race in their nation's colours on the world's servers from Friday onwards. Many TrackMania and TrackMania Sunrise players will already have access to the following exclusive features: peer 2 peer data exchange and skin and avatar custimisation.

TrackMania Nations ESWC is a completely free gameand Nadeo can't provide one by one support. We invite you to read this manual and to share your questions and answers with other people from the community at www.tm-forum.com.

Requirements:

· Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
· Pentium III 500 MHz
· 128 MB RAM
· 16 MB 3-D accelerator card compatible with DirectX 9
· 16-bit sound card
· 4x CD-ROM drive
· 900 MB available on hard disk
· DirectX version 9.0 b (or higher)