TrackMania: Build to Race


TrackMania: Build to Race
Environment(s):	Stadium Island Desert Snow Rally Coast
Solo Mode(s):	Race Puzzle Platform
Mood(s):	Sunrise Day Sunset
Developer(s):	Firebrand Games
Publisher(s):	Focus Home Interactive DreamCatcher Interactive
Series:	TrackMania
Platform(s):	Nintendo Wii
Release Date(s):	EU: 23 September 2010 NA: 24 March 2011
Genre(s):	Racing, puzzle
Mode(s):	Single-player, multiplayer

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TrackMania DS	TrackMania Turbo

TrackMania: Build to Race (also known as TrackMania Wii) is the sixth game in the TrackMania series.

Gameplay[]

The gameplay is similar to that of other TrackMania games. There is a Solo campaign where you can race on over 200 tracks and a track editor where you can build your own tracks. The game includes the Race, Puzzle and Platform modes and six of the seven classic environments: Stadium, Island, Desert, Snow, Rally and Coast. Bay was not included due to its complex scenery.

History[]

The game was first announced on 30 June 2009 by jeuxvideo.com in an interview with a developer. It was originally planned to be released on 20 July 2010, but on 19 July 2010, Michael Mota of Dreamcatcher Interactive announced that the game will be delayed. A new date was published on the UK Nintendo website as 23 September 2010.

Music[]

The soundtrack for this game is fairly enigmatic. There are little to no credits pertaining to music production/licensing, except for a mention of "Doo". This is an alias for Dorothée Rascle, who herself claims having composed music for at least TrackMania DS and TrackMania Forever [sic] games.

Most of the soundtrack is likely original, but it has been found that part of the soundtrack
is sourced from uncredited, publicly-available production music libraries:

Song	Origin
Stadium 3	"Fashion Trends" by David Bagatelle and Charles Breteville
Desert 1	"Pronto Nono" by Sébastien and Emmanuel Lipszyc

Some songs use samples, emulating the "french house" work of producers like Thomas Bangalter, Le Knight Club, among others.

Coast 1, also known on this wiki as Dancing in the Halls of Love, is THE most blatant use of sampling in the entire soundtrack. It is a french house remix of "Dancing In The Halls Of Love" by the Alessi Brothers,^[1] complete with new lyrics and production.

Island 1, theme song of the game, samples I Searched Around by Kinsman Dazz,^[2] and also some of the hi-hats from "Let There Be Light" by Justice.^[3]
Island 1 is very notable because it samples the former song very similarly to Living Up For Music (feat. Aida Khann) by MJK & Fox from a timely French compilation CD; to be fair, Stadium 1 samples it in a more transformative way.

Island 2 samples Ain't Nothin But A Party by A Taste of Honey.^[4]

Stadium 1 samples I Wouldn't Give You Up by Coffee.^[5]

Trivia[]

This is the only game in the TrackMania series to be available for the Nintendo Wii, and the second one to be available on console after TrackMania DS. It is also the first game where the Island and Coast environments are not available in Night mood.
The main menu shows the trailer for TrackMania United Forever with the scenes of the Bay environment cut out, since it was not included in the game.
This game has the second most environments out of all the games in the series. TrackMania United and United Forever are tied for first.
This is the last game in the TrackMania series to feature the Desert and Rally environments.
TrackMania: Build to Race borrows a lot of its music from previous games.
- Rally 1 is a remix of the music from the trailer of TrackMania Nations Forever.
- Rally 2, which is identical to Desert 2, is featured in the trailer for TrackMania DS.
  - This is also the first time a theme is shared between two environments.
- Stadium 3 is the music from the trailer of TrackMania United Forever.
Desert 1 sounds like an instrumental version of "Do You Like Waffles?" by Parry Gripp.
The music for this game would later be used in TrackMania Turbo (2010) for the Nintendo DS.
Dancing in the Halls of Love, or Coast 1, has lyrics. This is the first time since TrackMania Sunrise that a TrackMania theme featured lyrics.
The internal music system for this game is very friendly to modification; you can add Ogg Vorbis files in "audio/music/" in the game disc filesystem with the filename format "<environment short code>_<00-padded number>.ogg", e.g. "sta_04.ogg", "ral_03.ogg" etc. and the game will automatically add that song into the random song pool of that environment.