NASCAR 08 Reviews

  • tonyyankees48tonyyankees48939,159
    03 Mar 2011
    13 2 5
    You're coming in on the white flag lap as the leader in the Daytona contract challenge race with the leading pack chasing you. They bump draft you to the finish on the back straightaway, and then comes the black flag against you. Very disappointing, just like this failure we call a game. That's right, it is one of those EA games that want to torture you. First off, for an achievement gamer like me, there is no such thing as the 1000G, that's for sure. EA servers are taken off and the simple online achievements in this game are unobtainable. Next are the dreadful badges, which are very time consuming to obtain and it's just plain annoying. The game has the tendency to glitch your finishing position. For example: you can finish first in a regular race on the final lap, but a caution on the final lap doesn't give you first place. Instead it gives you a position that you aren't even close to, like 40th or better. For NASCAR fans or people who love to play their games, this isn't the game for you. You shouldn't be tortured by how fake this game is, and I'm glad that EA isn't responsible for NASCAR the Game 2011. which I recommend fans to get. This game is decent to raise that gamerscore up, but the max you will get is 965G. Overall, bad game and just terrible (0.5 out of 5 stars). NASCAR the Game 2011 out in stores on March 29, 2011.
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    tonyyankees48I understand your frustration with this game. If you want a good NASCAR game, get Nascar the Game 2011, which comes out Tuesday. You will have a better racing atmosphere in that game once the green flag is waved.....
    Posted by tonyyankees48 on 27 Mar 11 at 17:41
    Rob JedYour review is right on Tony! I banned owning EA games in my household due to this game. The servers shut down before EA put NASCAR 09 on the streets. Lol, good that they did that because the servers were hardly ever up when I tried to race online. At least it gave EA an excuse for why a gamer could not play this episode online at any given time. BTW, You think the off-line play has problems with glitchy things going on. The on-line play was awful and full of lag when the servers were working.
    Posted by Rob Jed on 02 Aug 11 at 10:06
    tonyyankees48Wow, tbh i had no idea about online play becuase it shut down when i started the game. the only ea games that i buy for now are the college football, madden, and golf. maybe some soccer. but any other ea sports games out there i refuse to buy becuase of their shutting down servers. make some damn achievemenst for offline playing. glad you agree with my point..
    Posted by tonyyankees48 on 02 Aug 11 at 22:27
  • DePas2422DePas2422200,339
    09 Jan 2011
    14 3 5
    This may be one THE WORST racing game of all time. It is so frustrating because at random times your car may just spin out of control not to mention that other cars can hit you causing you to fail your challenge. This game is awful and has turned me off from all future NASCAR games. Achievement hunting on this is not worth the amount of effort you can get and two of them are no longer attainable due to EA sports shutting down servers which is awesome. Also a race of 10 laps can cause you to pit twice and a caution flag is unrealistic because sometimes you will randomly drop down to 40th for no reason. The graphics are the best part of this game and they are nothing special. Overall I would recommend this game to a garbage can and that is it.
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