One of the most enjoyable parts of sports games is usually the ability to put yourself in the shoes of your favorite athletes - in this case, pilots. Through the multiple game modes you are able to control over forty-two of the best drivers of the era, and while this might be a blast to go through especially with friends who love the sport as much as you, the best part of the game is probably career mode. They are all decent modes, but nothing feels as rewarding, challenging, and strategic as career mode.
Building a name for yourself, and grinding yourself through the seasons is a very nice reward for those who love racing. In career mode you get to create a team, and manage it to success, it is nothing new for EA, but why change a formula that has worked so well? With this system players could affect the way the other racers treated them inside the track, this meant the more bumpy, aggressive, and reckless you were the more you could expect payback from the AI.
On the other hand, being a neutral driver would eventually create alliances that would seldomly allow easier passes for the player. This alone made this game stand out among the competition at the time, and made it as well-received as it was. The main issue that IGN cited was that the driving model is somewhat unrealistic. IGN gave the PC version an 8. The Xbox review was also an 8.
The more critical review came from GameZone, giving the game an 8. Just download torrent and start playing it. From MPH super-speedways to hairpin turns on 11 fantasy tracks, tuning your car and finding the line is no longer enough.
You'll also find a practice mode, where you can head out onto the track alone to familiarize yourself with the raceways and test your car setups. On the bright side, all the game modes are highly configurable: You can choose which sessions you'll drive all of them or just qualifying and the actual race, for example and set the race length, weather, AI ability and aggression, and more.
NASCAR Thunder boasts a new, much-improved physics engine to better model car handling, tire wear, and collisions. It doesn't seem to quite match the magnificent subtlety of NASCAR Racing Season's physics, but it does provide you with some really challenging, immersive racing. The slightest bumps in the road and the varied transitions between corners and straightaways require great skill to navigate at mph while other cars ride mere feet away.
The slightest slip-up and you'll at best lose time, at worst careen out of control. NASCAR Thunder does a great job re-creating these subtleties and making you feel like you're driving on the edge, barely taming a roaring beast of car.
Thanks to convincing force-feedback implementation, subtle sounds of tires slipping or skidding and slight bobbing of your cockpit view, you get a real feel for the details of driving. Tough yet fallible AI drivers, and both simplified and advanced car setup options further enhance the realism and fun of the driving experience.
A range of optional driver aids and AI skill sliders let you tone things down to create arcade-style gameplay, too. This is a very newbie-friendly game.
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