Trackmania Nations is a game with brilliant designs, good multiplayer and Super Monkey Ball levels - for free.
Of course, if you don't linke meeting strangers, you can always use a safe, LAN mode to choose over people that you do know, but - to be fair - is quite useless. The bad points of this game is not too huge. The menu design is horrible and green, and the sound is basic aswell. But, the graphics are superb, and the grass looks meaty fresh. The animation is smooth but isn't quite Half-Life 2. There is lots of value, sure, but there is only 30 levels in each set. But the levels are like Super Monkey Ball - it starts of baby simple and then the levels get fairly harder and harder, each level and set. You may - if you are TrackMania boffins - complete all of the set levels in six or so hours, but if you look carefully, a few, more levels are just waiting to be played, and god - they are hard.
The gameplay has also - at times - got some slow down flawes if you are working on XP, but soon, it works perfectly, and you won't reconize a bug at all. The game is also FREE. You can download it at any great download selection area, such as Download.com TrackMania is a must b... download, and it works perfectly.
Gameplay
+ It's free!
- Some flaws at times.
Graphics
+ Great grass and flesh animation.
- It's no Half-Life 2!
Sound
+ Basic and simple. Lovin' it.
- Needs some dazz! C'mon!
Better than: TrackMania Sunrise. Worse than: BurnOut 3.
It even comes with a leaderboard! And free! What more can you want?