TGC writes: I had real high hopes for NASCAR 2011 but it did not deliver. The poor AI severely affects the gameplay and the ‘realistic’ parts of the game do not feel that realistic. The best part of the game is how amazingly great the moving lanyard looks on the load screen and when this is the case, you know the game is probably in trouble.
Excerpt: NASCAR 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PS3 doesn’t have the lower tier racing divisions that Langley specializes in. Instead, it focuses on the biggest baddest level of racing the sport has to offer, the Sprint Cup. And unlike other racers, it doesn’t force you to work your way up to the fastest cars. As soon as you press start, you’re at Daytona in a vehicle capable of doing 200+ MPH beside 42 other cars just a quick as yours. That’s called ‘diving into the deep end’.
GamingOgre: NASCAR has been conspicuously absent since EA dropped the license. Now that Activision has picked it up, can European developer Eutechnyx bring a purely American sport home, or does it make a right hand turn into the wall? Read our full review and find out.
gamrReview writes:-
"NASCAR 2011: The Game is the first (proper) NASCAR title on the Wii and unfortunately it's a mess. Developer Eutechnyx delivered a simplified port of the game on the HD consoles, which was already a middle-of-the-road experience to begin with. This version lacks many of the features from that version and adds on the extra baggage of bad controls and poor visuals. The game treads a blurred line between casual racer and full-on simulation but won’t satisfy fans of either genre or NASCAR in general."
This could be fun.
This site does know Nascar 2012 comes out soon.
Even so a first attempt with a yearly franchise is going to be missing a few elements.
This round they got some of the Papyrus team from the old Nascar game development studios to work on the game as well. So 2012 will be awesome.
Still I myself am looking forward to catching 2011 at a decent price. I have been out of the Nascar gaming loop for awhile.