How many of you they like racing game titles, in which you can compete and demonstrate your skills not only against the recreations of the game, but also against other players and especially to be able to do it online.
TrackMania Nations Forever is a multiplayer online car racing game developed by the French company Nadeo mainly for PC, this It is one of the many TrackMania sagas that Nadeo has developed since it has several of them.
Most Linux users I am sure have never heard of Track Mania, because it was only available only for Windows, Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users.
In the TrackMania series, Instead of following the usual trend (in which the game already fixes the circuits and cars), it offers a very complete scenario editor, to be able to create customized circuits, using a system of «blocks». From the Internet it is also possible to download cars and circuits from several of the installments of the saga.
There are currently fifteen TrackMania games. Each one has a free extension of the game, which adds a word to the name and generates new scenarios, cars and functions.
However in this case TrackMania Nations Forever is a free game in the true sense of the wordas it lets you drive at blazing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.
Trackmania Nations Forever offers a new "Forever" version of the Stadium environment, a solid solo mode, and 65 new and progressively challenging tracks.
The game will unite an even greater number of players than the original nations, thanks to its immersive multiplayer modes, innovative online features and revolutionary interactivity between players.
The game is available for amd64 and i386 architectures and installs in a WINE environment on first run.
Among the main features of this game we can highlight.
Features:
- A completely free game.
- An attractive single player mode with 65 new tracks.
- Join millions of players and compete on hundreds of tracks on TrackMania's servers.
- A complete TrackMania environment: the «Forever» Stadium.
- An integrated editor to create your own tracks, a video editor to make your films and a paint shop to customize your vehicles.
- Official leaderboards for single player and multiplayer.
- Compatible with TrackMania United Forever (profile and multiplayer servers).
Requirements to play TrackMania Nations Forever on Ubuntu
For to be able to run TrackMania Nations Forever in Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives we must have the following on our computers to be able to run it
Minimum requirements
- Processor: Pentium IV 1.6 GHz / Athlon XP 1600+
- Graphics: 3D accelerator card with 16 MB
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Hard Drive: 750 MB free space
Recommended Requirements
- Processor: Pentium IV or similar at 2.3 GHz or higher
- Graphics: 3D accelerator card with 256 MB or more
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Hard Drive: 1Gb of free space
How to install TrackMania Nations Forever on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives?
TrackMania Nations Forever we can find it already packed in Snap Therefore, in order to install this game in our system we must have the support of Snap technology in our system.
To install TrackMania Nations Forever on Ubuntu 18.04 dWe must open a terminal and execute the following command:
sudo snap install tmnationsforever --edge sudo snap connect tmnationsforever:joystick
Only we must wait for the download and the correct installation to be carried out in our system. And with that we will already have the game installed on our system.
If you already have it installed you can update the game with this command:
sudo snap refresh tmnationsforever
To run the game, they simply have to look for it in their application menu to start enjoying a pleasant online racing session.
How to uninstall TrackMania Nations Forever from Ubuntu?
To uninstall this game from our system we simply execute the following command on a terminal:
sudo snap remove tmnationsforever