Trackmania Nations Forever is an all time greatest racing game for me. It's controls are devilishly simple, but that hides a depth which is immense. It's a series all about making tricky jumps, and rounding corners in just the right way that you maintain your speed. Keeping speed in Trackmania is exhilarating, and it feels faster than many other racing games, even if it isn't on paper.

A lot of what I love about this game comes from the custom content. Trackmania players have made all kinds of absurd and tricky courses, enough that there's functionally no end to the racing. In a sense, the track is your true enemy. Sure other people are racing with you, but it's easy to forget about them as you just try to finish a tricky track.

Racing in Trackmania has tricks and all kinds of wild jumps that are exhilarating. The track design has an anarchic, wild energy that few other racing games possess. Plus, the game is entirely free, unlike its newer counterpart which locks the custom content (the best content in the series imo) behind a subscription service. Not that I begrudge it for doing so, it must make money somehow, but the older iteration has that content for free. It's a must play for anyone with a computer that can run this very easy to run game.