Operation Sports had a chance to sit down with Eutechnyx executive vice president, Ed Martin. Mr. Martin was kind enough to answer some questions about the upcoming title.
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.
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.
The site knows that, that's why the review for this game has come out, to assist people if they were thinking of buying 2011 before 2012 on the cheap or whatever reason.
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.
Seems a lot of effort is going into NASCAR 11 hope it turns out good
Where is everyone getting the impression that NASCAR in GT5 is going to be good?? It is going to be a skeleton version of NASCAR. They do not have full licensing from NASCAR. It will not include anywhere even close to all the drivers or tracks. Get off the GT5 high horse.