You fight to get into and maintain a good draft. Your skill with the wheel is as crucial as your split-second decision-making.
It goes even deeper with mechanics like tire wear, fuel levels, and rising engine temperatures when drafting too long, which force you to think about pit strategies.įrom all this, a puzzle game emerges. Then there’s slingshot passing, which is using momentum gained from a draft in a corner to blast past your victim on the straight. It instantly introduces you to this concept, for those uninitiated, along with bump drafting, the nudging of the car in front to give them a kick of speed and benefitting from a prolonged slipstream.
There are challenges at every track but as you upgrade your car and skills you’ll be appropriately rewarded with a substantial performance advantage bringing you a step closer to victory lane.ĭrafting is key to NASCAR and the game portrays this excellently. Eutechnyx has found a good balance here in the difficulty department. Plan on utilizing slingshot passes and drafting mechanics to stay competitive within the pack and work your way up the ranks. Gamers can customize everything from the paint scheme to individual performance parts. Players will have to tinker around in the garage a bit and really fine tune their car and equally important driving skills to hang with the top drivers. However, you will only be racing at the Sprint Cup level, which at least offers the possibility that future games could include the Nationwide Series, the Camping World Truck Series, or even kart racers or another junior/developmental level. as you compete to win the Sprint Cup title. There aren’t a ton of upgrades to be purchased, and there are no upgrades for your driver, so it really is more about adapting your own driving skills to each track and situation. Race well and you’ll please your sponsors and earn credits, which can be used to upgrade your car’s equipment. As a generic racer, you’ll hop behind the wheel of a Sprint-branded car to take on all the stars of NASCAR. The heart of Inside Line is the career mode, which now extends over multiple seasons. The other flaws? Most seem to have been fixed for Inside Line, which will definitely help NASCAR fans through the long winter until Daytona. The first title was a good introduction, but had some flaws (some of which were later fixed with a major patch). You can check out NASCAR The Game: Inside Line on Xbox 360: The Console, PlayStation 3: The Console, and Wii: The Console.The real NASCAR season just ended, but the digital season is just starting with the release of NASCAR The Game: Inside Line, Activision and Eutechnyx’s second stock car racing title. (and because we want you to stop doing that) I now present to you, NASCAR The Game: Inside Line: The Screenshots for The Highlights for The Game, and NASCAR The Game: Inside Line: The Video for the Highlights for The Game – The Game.
If you don’t want to get mixed up with another currency type, you can also opt for the whole shebang at $24.99 (that’s 2000 MS points) for the full Season Pass, as well as all 2013 Gen 6 paint schemes. Can you keep Brad’s ride in one piece as you dodge the wrecking cars on lap 327?ĭescription: Chase down Kyle Busch in the closing laps at Texas and rewrite history by ending Martin Truex Jr.’s 209 race winless streak.ĭescription: Drive along with McDowell and squeeze through The Big One unscathed!Īfter every race a new highlight pack like the one above will be released and each highlight will cost 20 Tickets. Toyota Owners 400 Richmond International Racewayĭescription: Jimmie Johnson has spun out and hit Kyle Busch. Ignoring for a fact that it’s very obvious that it’s a game and therefore completely ridiculous and unnecessary to name a game “The Game” (and we as gamers would really appreciate it if you would stop), we’ve got some some screenshots and video to show you of some of the races you’ll be able to tackle and how the DLC / Season Pass works:
Well, Eutechnyx is doing exactly that with their title NASCAR The Game: Inside Line. Obviously with something that changes as often as Pole positions and leaderboards, it’s important to stay current. Eutechnyx and Activision are taking a note from something we’ve suggested for sports titles for quite a while – weekly updates.
There’s only a handful of people that like NASCAR….somewhere around 75 million or so.