Nadeo released TrackMania Nations partly as a promotion for the Electronic Sports World Cup, and also for TrackMania itself. This free, stand-alone game has one new environment, Stadium, and many features also in Sunrise,
including the advertisement panels, which show ads from sponsors
streamed from the internet. The game contains 100 single player tracks,
the earlier ones relatively simple in both design and gameplay, but it
is largely pitched as an online game. One of the main attractions is
the leader board, in which people compete for the best times and
points. The top 5 players can be seen on the homepage. Due to the
extremely high popularity of Nations (there were almost 1
million registered online players within weeks of its launch), the
leader board was taken down soon after launch, and improved to meet
demand.
