good game with serious bad points

User Rating: 7.5 | NASCAR 09 X360
By helghastbane | Review Date:
I like this game first and foremost.The problem i have is that it can be so hard to get a reasonable setup for some tracks that it takes away from the main point of a game, that is to race!!Dont get me wrong i like the fact that they have tried hard for realism but the setup difficulty is going to send casual gamers running away. I like a lot of the features of the game the paint shop is ok but they have had better versions of this on older games.The ability to create your own paint scheme is cool but no one but your friends can see it which brings me to one of my main complaints.Online races feature about half a field of GREY cars because the rest of the field cannot see your masterpiece paint scheme.
The online racing is the main draw for most with this game i think and for the most part aside from the grey cars it is done reasonably well,it can be pretty glitchy at times though.

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