Nascar doesn't mean much to those outside North America, especially if you have never see Days of Thunder. For those not familiar with this branch of motor racing, it mostly involves driving laps of an oval track with banked corners. And that is pretty much what you get in the game, which doesn't give you much to work with.
Graphically, yes, this is presented in glorious HD (but not to 1080p) on the PS3 in Dolby Digital etc, etc, but it's difficult to get past the tedium of actually playing the game. Trying to break out and hit a relatively normal bendy track (which you can do) only reinforces just how serious this game is about being a sim – you just can't turn the corners and unless you have the patience of a saint, you'll be flogging this on eBay before you can say Daytona.
EA do some great sports games – this isn't one of them.
Disney Studios released Pure last week, and if you played the demo, you probably got hooked. Even if you're not ready to plunk down $60 to trick out on your ATV, there are other great deals to be found. The Goozex Report breaks down the most popular racing games available for the Xbox 360, complete with current values for each of the games, along with their Metacritic scores. This is a must-read for gamers who prefer to trade than buy.
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"Whilst its reasonable looking, it does not even touch the likes of Burnout or Gran Turismo. This is a real shame as the bad looks don't stop there, the cars themselves look really dated, very square edges, and dull looking, it even borders on lazy, go for a 3rd person view and look behind you, take a turn and your driver does not even move to steer, however the in car view at least makes him turn the steering wheel and it also has a better sense of speed. Even the drift effect is really poor, hang behind another car and there will be a few wispy, hair-like lines around the car, whilst it does the job in showing the drift, it looks lame. Overall the graphics are more like last gen PS2 or Xbox rather than a 360 title".
The Xbox 360 has been out for more than two years now, and while there have been a lot of great games released in that time, the 360 has seen its fair share of bad games as well. There isn't quite anything as epically terrible as Drake of the 99 Dragons or Aquaman like we saw on the original Xbox, where Xbox fans are proud to have them in their collection like a badge of honor, but there are plenty of stinkers that could reach those heights of fame and misfortune. Check out our full list of the Ten Worst Xbox 360 Games right here.
In all fairness, Sonic the Hedgehog was garbage across all platforms. With that said, I am actually looking forward to the DS sonic game because it is been developed by Bioware.
Make sure you don't take away the horrible glory of Area 51 away from PS3!! Let's people rag on something other than Lair (I liked Lair actually, just like if you hear horrible things about a movie, its hard to live up to the awfulness)
Another amazing game from EA, come on everbody buy this now before it goes out of stock (SARCASM)
i work with a guy who wears NASCAR colonge. he is 36 and still a virgin. they might be related.
now those are some good critics
would buy a racing game just to go round in a big circle...its crap