Firebrand's Race Driver: Create and Race got a lot of kudos from the press (despite other shortcomings) because it shipped with a pretty awesome track editor and the online support required for track-swapping and online competition. The Trackmania series available for the PC is pretty much just an extended exercise in swapping custom stunt-driving tracks and competing online.
Create and Race isn't as flexible as Trackmania, while Trackmania itself has been dogged by controversy over its use of the unpopular StarForce copy protection scheme. Solution: have Firebrand port Trackmania to the Nintendo DS! While it goes without saying that the DS version won't sport graphics on par with its bigger PC brothers, it's entirely possible for it to have a race editor that's got all of Trackmania's famous flexibility, and the WFC can certainly duplicate the online competitiion.
I'm usually not much for portable racers (99% of them can be summarized with the word "crap"), but this is a pretty clever and promising project. I'll be keeping an eye on it. Check behind the cut for the clever Trackmania DS trailer.
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