With the ability to race both stock cars and craftsman trucks, both everyday and hardcore racers will definitely be able to feel the difference. NASCAR Racing: 1999 Ed.‘s visuals have no place in today’s advanced, 3D accelerated, visually pleasing market.Īs far as realism goes, the game definitely has one of the more commendable physics engines in the genre. Any background objects (trees, people etc.) are the most obvious 2D sprites I have ever seen, and it is beyond me how a game with relatively little to draw (the same scene around the track) can have so much popup. The cars are passable, somewhat detailed 3D objects, but everything else looks like garbage. The fact remains that with all the current 3D hardware available, the game could have looked a helluvalot better than it does. When comparing its visuals to other racing titles on the market, like Powerslide and Grand Prix Legends, you might wonder why NASCAR ’99 wasn’t released two years ago. Hardcore fan or not, any gamer will quickly notice NASCAR Racing: 1999 Ed.‘s most inferior aspect: a seriously outdated 3D engine. In the end, it’s only “hardcore” racing fans that will really enjoy NASCAR Racing: 1999 Edition. You might even call it the thinking gamer’s approach to racing games. Thus is the life of a NASCAR racer, the type of gamer who is consciously separating himself from balls out, high speed course-based titles like Grand Prix Legends, Powerslide and even DeathKarz in exchange for a calmer, more predicable strategic racing game like NASCAR Racing.
I’m one three-hundredth of the way to winning the first race of my championship!” Coming around for your first lap, you think to yourself, “Okay, one down. You slowly ease into the first turn, deciding to go conservative and not to push the RPMs quite yet. As the green flags falls, you give it some gas, release the clutch and start your way towards your first NASCAR Grand National Division championship. A bead of sweat collects on your brow as you glance around at the other cars on the line. You’re at the starting line of your first NASCAR race ever.