{"id":38997,"date":"2013-04-11T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=38997"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:31:23","slug":"shootmania-storm-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/shootmania-storm-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Shootmania Storm out now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shootmania-storm.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Shootmania Storm<\/strong><\/a> is now available to buy on Maniaplanet and Steam. The fast paced multiplayer first person shooter has had a long beta phase, resulting in an established community of gamers with lots of user created content already out there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39000\" title=\"Shootmania Storm\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/SM-Storm-Key-Art-Landscape-+-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/SM-Storm-Key-Art-Landscape-+-Logo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/SM-Storm-Key-Art-Landscape-+-Logo-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shootmania Storm takes the philosophy of Trackmania and applies it to the FPS. So it&#8217;s fast paced, arcade gameplay with an emphasis on giving players simple tools to create their own maps and objects. In Shootmania, that&#8217;s an easy to use map editor, with great tools for making your own weapons and guns.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Closer to <a href=\"http:\/\/quake-live.en.softonic.com\/\">Quake<\/a> than <a href=\"http:\/\/call-of-duty-black-ops-2.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call of Duty<\/a>, Shootmania Storm isn&#8217;t concerned with realism or violence, but rather quick FPS action that emphasizes athletic fast moving shooting around maps. It doesn&#8217;t have the scale of <a href=\"http:\/\/tribes-ascend.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tribes: Ascend<\/a>, but it&#8217;s almost as fast.<\/p>\n<p>If you were participating in the Beta program, but have not bought the game, you&#8217;ll still be able to play <strong>Elite <\/strong>and <strong>Royal<\/strong> game modes. Currently new players cannot create new free trial accounts, but the developers are promising that this will be possible soon.<br \/>\n<!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Read my impressions of the beta <a href=\"http:\/\/shootmania-storm.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shootmania Storm is now available to buy on Maniaplanet and Steam. The fast paced multiplayer first person shooter has had a long beta phase, resulting in an established community of gamers with lots of user created content already out there. Shootmania Storm takes the philosophy of Trackmania and applies it to the FPS. So it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/shootmania-storm-out-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shootmania Storm out now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-38997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333126,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997\/revisions\/333126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38997"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=38997"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=38997"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=38997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}