gamrReview: "If you’re looking for a NASCAR racer then, to put it bluntly, it’s all you’ve got, so it’s fortunate then that NASCAR 2011: The Game is a decent and somewhat enjoyable first entry from Eutechnyx."
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.
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.
*in before left turn jokes*
Not sure about this game...
"They're making a left turn! They're making another left turn!"
there is a huge patch coming out soon to fix everything people are bitching about. bye the way turning left is the only simple thing about nascar. its a technical sport, just play the game when its fixed and you might have some respect for how good the drivers acually are. tuning a car for each track is pretty damn cool too. but its not for everyone i guess.