Best nascar pc game ever

The original. The trailblazer. This game, in all of its 8-bit glory, was fun for its time. And as you can see by the graphic, the attention to detail to make it look like the actual Talladega Superspeedway was amazing, as Talladega Superspeedway is a road course that winds through neon-green hillsides.

It had all the markings of an early '90s video game, like glorious 8-bit graphics, a midi soundtrack, and laser-scanned replicas of real NASCAR race tracks that change dynamically with weather and tire wear conditions. Wait, no. Not that last one. Now that that's out of the way, the game was kind of, sort of not good. It only incorporated the racing element of the film.

There was no level where you had to race a guy through a hospital on a wheelchair, or another where you had to use the directional pad on your controller to maneuver sugar packets around on Nicole Kidman's upper thigh. This game is just a gem. You start off in the Whelen Modified series then make your way to the Trucks, Busch series and then the Nextel Cup series.

You have rivals, can use special moves to intimidate your rivals, and so so much more. Either one of these being your pick is a great idea.

What I like about this game is that you have the 4 different series like Chase for the Cup. This one was always one of my personal favorites as a kid. Most of the tracks were fantasy tracks, ranging from open highways to a race around a large fountain, and usually they featured shortcuts.

Dirt to Daytona was the first game to really embrace the idea of moving up from the bottom tiers of the sport, the dirt tracks, to the highest level. Released in , these games were the standard excellent Papyrus fare. But Edition was one of the first games to fully embrace the concept of adding Busch Series and Craftsman Truck vehicles, and allowed users to race in fields of up to But then, Hasbro stepped up with this baby, and an all-out war began.

And while both competitors lost out in those respective instances, their offerings would have been groundbreaking in any other situation. For the first time, EA added lower-tier series to their games, adding Featherlite Modifieds and Craftsman Trucks to the stock cars. The addition of a story mode and production car races—through one of which the user earns a Modified ride, by beating Ryan Newman—were pretty cool as well.

EA was on a roll with almost all of their video game offerings around this time, developing innovative new features for each.