Probably the best nascar sim to date, realism at it's finest!

User Rating: 9 | NASCAR Racing 2003 Season PC
By dmb34 | Review Date:
Well it's nascar racing 2003 season's 5th anniversary! Wow 5 yrs and still going strong. i started racing papy games starting with nascar racing 4 and at it's release it was considered the most revolutionary-realistic to date, but papy made a few subtle changes to nr2002 and finally ending with nr 2003. No wonder this game is fetching $100+ on ebay. What i like about papy games is the fact they LIVED-BREATHED-ATE NASCAR and had the most realistic physics engine for stock car racing. Also they did a good job of scaling the games so you could have an arcade to ultra realistic experience all in one game. Attention to detail is where this game shines the most, spin the car out and your tires will wear out fast! You must time your pitstops accordingly or you will run out of gas!!! Also after many laps you will notice that your car is starting to get loose in the corners indicating that your tires are wearing out.

One of the most fun aspects of the game is car setups, I have spent many hours tweaking setups trying to achieve fast laptimes. And there is no better place to test out your setup as online play, though now most online play involves direct ip as sierra has shutdown it's servers for this game. The mod community is as strong as any game i have seen, many website dedicated to this game so finding new content such as cars-tracks-setups etc are just a click away.

I can easily see this game lasting another 5yrs or until ea loses the nascar license, it's a shame though to think if papy had continued to make nascar sims what kind of game we would have on hand right now.

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