EA’s Lost NASCAR Game
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- The EA Sports NASCAR games have been seen for a long time as the pinnacle of NASCAR gaming, with revolutionary advancements to the license and a continuing bar to hit thanks to the faltering of NASCAR games ever since. But when the series went downhill EA decided to scrap their game in development, NASCAR ‘10. So today I want to look into the brief history of NASCAR ‘10 as well as the lost DLC from NASCAR ‘09 that surely would have been in the next game. This is EA’s lost NASCAR game.
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What do you think a NASCAR ‘10 game would be like?
It would had "EA Sports , its in the game"
Probably like nascar 09. And considering what EA is today with games like Madden. I think we should be glad EA doesn’t have the nascar license anymore.
Honestly 09 multiplayer was awesome, better than anything on console after it.
Coincidentally, 2005 was were EA released their last good NFS game until Heat, which was Carbon.
And that game alone could be covered here because that and MW2005 has a sad story of cuts.
basically NASCAR 09 w/ roster and calendar updates
If NASCAR '10 happened, I bet you it would be much better then what we got with NASCAR '21 Ignition
Is ignition that bad?
@@Rook00 ignition is the worst game I have ever played
@@HolograpicTaco22 Second worst game I have ever played. The worst is Heat Evolution.
@@HolograpicTaco22 agreed, I had more fun w/ the Eutechnyx games (NASCAR '15 for PC felt more worth my money than NASCAR '21 did) and w/ the Heat series as well
@@Rook00 its worse.
Let’s be honest here, even EA at its worse/fall is way better/playable than 21 ignition can be at its best.
Agreeable but pretty soon the games would get gradually worse and have nothing but micro transactions at least the devs of ignish are trying to make the game better look at F1 22
48 Waffles Spitting Jesus here. I have to say 21 Ignition is the most unplayable racing game I've ever put my controller to.
I'm glad there are still new NR2003 mods released every often.
@@thetechfromheaven But the mod i (also the whole community too) want the most for NR2003 is effects & physics interactions overhaul, with realistic effects & physics looks the experience should be much much immersive! Do u guy know/remember the NascarTG 2011 trailer vid? The effects & physics in that trailer blow my mind.
Look let me say this and you probably won’t even respond but just hear me out. I do agree Nascar 21 ignition in terms overall quality is very shit. For example: no rear view mirror, no custom setups, lack of career mode, no challenges, not even a true difficulty setting. And not to mention all of the lack of bugs that it has. But just hear me out when you are able to get into a online session on N21 ignition I’ve actually had more fun on that game than heat 5. Let me explain first when there is no custom setups and everyone can race “clean” then there is no significant advantage which forces you to use your skill more than just your setup. The Plate racing on that game actually is very well done in terms on the way the plate racing is with the new package you can actually get a run and pass someone on either side of you. You can say the game is bad all you want but Heat 5 you can’t tell me you could pass at Daytona or Talladega on the outside in a online lobby it was literally impossible unless you had 2 pushers. This is coming from someone who has the platinum (100%) on every nascar game ever made. Don’t believe look up my user name and it will pull it up on google search. I’m not trying to defend Ignition at all but if people would buy the game cheap now and actually played the online they would see the racing is actually not all bad if people race clean. The no mirror sucks I get that but for the actual driving model it handles smooth as shit. It’s super easy to drive and it’s not super choppy in the corners for example you can’t sit here and tell me that heat 5 was smoother you would see multiple people in public lobbies do crazy S motions on the track. Causing you to wreck because of there lack of holding the car straight. The biggest thing I actually respect N21 ignition for was if you hooked someone in the rear they are going around just like real life but on heat 5 if you try the same thing you go into the wall. The physics on heat 5 honestly makes no sense at all. I agree the game overall is much better but I think people need to actually play the online portion of it first with a open mind and actually review it based off that. I don’t think n21 ignition is great at all I would put it the worst game possibly of all time but I still think heat 1 was way worse. But besides that I would like to hear a reply from you but if anyone wants to reply I would greatly be willing to talk more about this..
To be honest, EA was pretty bad towards the end but at least they weren’t a pyramid scheme, which is a piece of criteria that I didn’t know I needed in a game developer/publisher.
I'm really hoping one day in the near future us as Nascar fans can FINALLY have a reputable Nascar game on consoles that comes out on a regualr basis and is full of content by passionate devs not hindered by execs and managment. No iracing isn't for me. I don't want to buy/pay a subscription service for every car/track, where I have to use my real name, be always online in cockpit mode, and if I stop paying can't play. Also yes, I play NR2003 regularly, but I am talking about a modern game here. I know more than anyone NR2003 is still top class in quality but its not too much to ask for a console Nascar game as well in 2022 lol.
@@Continuum7 indycar is already seemingly trying to give the license of their cars to a different company, they were talking to the ams 2 devs about it.
I really hope we can see these racing series get some proper coverage in the gaming space. It's tough because its really hard to justify making whole game series and whatnot for each individual racing series, yet the alternative of releasing multiple racing series under a single game is clearly proving to be incredibly difficult to nail for sim racing developers, and hardly feels like a real solution with some of the more popular series (that are still not popular enough to warrant standalone releases) being locked behind paywalls on otherwise already expensive sims.
pyramid scheme is an understatement for all the microtransactions that have become mainstream over the years, dlc was a nice addition for awhile with any game, but it seemed like companies realized that alot of people would be willing to still shell out money after buying the base game and that helped drive the train down the tracks.
Do you guys even know what a pyramid scheme even is lmfao
My heart hurts that even 12 years later we still don't have a nascar game that fans can look forward too every year
Sierra's NR2003 and iRacing are far better than anything EA could put out anyways!
Heat 5 isnt amazing but it might be the best we have for the next few years
iracing.....
@@mz1958 Iracing is good and all but not everyone has access to it. I can't afford thousands of dollars for a computer to run it, a good console NASCAR game is what we need. Heat 5 has been it so far.
Same for fight night
A big factor is that EA had to battle with the Nascar Heat series, and Dirt to Daytona was a really good game. It always felt like EA always stopped trying as hard once they got exclusive license of a sport franchise.
Yep, just look at Madden. Since the NFL 2K series ended following EA's exclusive license it has literally been the exact same game for well over a decade, just with better graphics every few years and new physics. The controls and gameplay are pretty much the exact same as Madden 2005, the last game with licensed competition.
Fingers crossed that a build of the game gets posted online some day. Development builds of cancelled games have popped up in the past (e.g., Star Wars Battlefront III, and Star Fox 2 was available for YEARS before the official release), so I wouldn't think it would be impossible if NASCAR '10 leaked.
Don’t worry, one day we will get it
Hearing Iceberg mention NASCAR09's online mode brought me to tears! That online multi-player mode was amazing. Shoot-out to my old league racing 4-car team: CHAMPION Racing Team. #1,9,10,11.
As somebody who was involved with EA at the time and working on their forums in a community support manager role, NASCAR 10 was never a thing. The only reason Kart racing was made was to legally fulfill the requirements of the contract and said contract expired shortly after release of Kart Racing. If they could have legally gotten away with 09 being the last game they produced they would have.
I worked on Nascar 10 at Eutechnyx......I believe that was finally released as Nascar 11 tho because it got delayed.??? I just looked online to confirm, quote, "NASCAR The Game: 2011, also known as NASCAR 2011: The Game, is a 2011 racing video game, developed by Eutechnyx"
When I was still working on it it was Nascar 2010.
Huh. Well I guess this video was pointless then.
@@PhantomMarkthat is really interesting. Recently got to play the Wii version and it is solid as a game of the 2011 season. But i'd never know it was a "reskin" of a supposed 2010 game
NASCAR 09 was a strange one. It looked extremely promising, but fell flat on its face. (If you were like me and bought the PS2 version, all I can say is you are among the group who truly saw how little EA cared...)
NASCAR 06 was a lot of fun for me. Was it the best? No. Was it perfect? No. But I loved that game to death, and while it didn't have the depth that NASCAR 04 gave, it was certainly a lot fun.
Well of course. EA had moved onto developing for the next-gen consoles of that time. 09 for PS2 was a reskinned 08 and who can blame them.
@@doublefourmedia Have you ever gone to Watkins Glen in NASCAR 09 on the PS2? The pack will literally grip-roll in the first corner! The least they could have done was some quality control!
The PS3 is much better but it still doesn’t excuse how broken 09 on PS2 was. I say the same for all if the Eutechnyx games, just because a version is slightly better doesn’t excuse it for being awful on other versions
I think the game still would’ve been better than NASCAR 21 ignition
The early-mid 2000s were the peak of sports games in general no cap. Like 2001-2005.
Madden 08 was good
I think the next NASCAR game should have CLASSIC cars for race from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s
Even classic tracks too
Yes! Kind of like F1 has done and like NBA is doing.
I think the next nascar game should be a complete playable game
There was an attempt. Papyrus did Nascar Legends for PC in 1999 based off the 1970 season.
@@patmanbnl I loved that game. The challenge of managing your tires made the thrill of victory so satisfying
@@ryanespinoza7297 let's start with that first
It probably would have been the same thing as 09 with no manufactures and some bugs but it sucks how we never got a true 2009 game unless you count NASCAR Kart Racing which is just Mario Kart but NASCAR
it would've been on the ps2 probably it would've had the better one
I wonder if I would've been a nascar version on NFS hot pursuit
Hey Iceberg, I don't have a link but one of my good friends who used to work in EA till 2013 I believe said that in NASCAR 10 there was going to be a add on, being the full Watkins Glen Layout.
I think we would've seen manufacturers return, more fan favorite fantasy tracks, Junior as cover athlete, proabably a deep career mode and the return of squad-based racing.
For me, NASCAR 06 is the pinnacle of the series. It was the one I played the most as a kid. Mostly because the career mode in NASCAR Thunder 2004 doesn't allow you to use full driving assists, which is still a struggle for me today, more than 15 years later. If 2004's career mode allowed full driving assists, it would be the best in the series for me, because I love how the career mode is set up. I love Fight to the Top as well, and I think it was better in 06 than 05, which I only got recently. Sawmill is probably my favorite fantasy track and I wish it was in 06. Also, the amount of alternate paint schemes in 2004 is the best.
I loved 06 too, I had hundreds of hours invested in that game,
That’s the main reason I stopped playing 04, couldn’t drive without assists. I played the hell out of 05,06, and 07, even though 06 is just a carbon copy of 07.
I think they had no intention of leaving the ISI engine, so the AI would've still been soulless and the car would still drive like a banana.
I do wish we could get proper nascar games again
As long as motorsports games has the license....it will never happen
at least we still have new NR2003 mods every often...
what's wrong with the current one
@@timelymirror7826 It's
dude just play iracing......best nascar racing ever created
I was one of the car artists on all those Thunder games. I don't know about the gameplay mechanics but we saw a more streamlined or abstract tite menus in 10 than the virtual garage setting from 09 and we were working on a narrative mode with actors in the role of team manager and crew chief.
I enjoyed time between projects trying to pitch and mockup gameplay animation for a historic NASCAR series with older iconic cars and tracks.
A historic mode would have been so cool
NASCAR 10 probably would have sucked considering how awful NASCAR 08 and 09 were
Probably would've been better than Heat Evolution *shutters*
@@inky.64 I mean that's not much of an achievement
@@razormc954 Honestly hot take but Heat Evolution imo is the worst NASCAR game out of them all. 21 may be buggy as hell, NASCAR 09 may have horrible psychics and no manufacturers, but at least there both funny kinda bad. At least I can get some fun out of them (21 is honestly alright racing wise). NHE is just depressingly bad to me.
I honestly don't understand why 08 and 09 were hated. Those 2 games were fun in their own right. Especially 09's multi-player.
@@Carshtime True
A NASCAR 10 game wouldn't have been any better than the previous games EA made. But all of those EA SPORTS games are far better than modern NASCAAR games.
Not better than iRacing and NASCAR Racing 2003 tho
0:50 NASCAR 98 is the 🐐. My first ps1 game ever. The intro is unmatched.
I always have hated EA for bullying Papyrus, and killed the best racing series we ever had as Nascar Fans but now it's amazing how much I miss EA compared to the recent trash we have had.
NR2003 still stands as the best one.
no game has since given me that *gasp* when playing it the first time. They really put love and effort into that game
Even though it was mostly unchanged since 07, I preferred the PS2 version of 08 and 09 over the PS3/360 one. A nascar game with the same physics and NFS Shift 2 could have been good
Am I the only one that thoroughly enjoyed Chase for the Cup as it progressed AI drivers into open seats as well?
I wish we got it so I could've gotten to see Tony Stewart's 14 car and Carl Edwards' Aflac car with the COT wing in a videogame
NASCAR Kart Racing exists
My nascar game growing up was Nascar 1999 for N64 and dirt to Daytona for game cube. I loved Dirt to Daytona even though I don’t think i ever raced a legit race. I think I mainly drove to create crashes
EA: We can't finish this game.
EA Developers: We can still release it though, right?
They done the same with Battlefield 2042
im sorry but that intro with jeff gordon driving around that circular track while rev theory starts to play is so hype
But we already got a coliseum track in a Nascar game, Nascar Rumble. It was a bonus track in that game and had a very similar setup back in 2001.
Circus Maximus, I know that one. That track was insane
I’m a little late but I’m so happy you used that specific clip for the intro. Bryz is GOATed
That outdo music is insanely good. Great vid.
I remember going to GameStop and asking for Nascar 10, just assuming they had it, and the guy in the store telling me, "they didn't make a 10. EA's last was 09." So I got that.
I loved the wing designs and im disappointed we didnt get car manufacturers for the bodies
As much as I had wished EA had kept making games at the time, a part of me is glad that they didn’t. I was a diehard fan of the NHL games from NHL10-NHL19 but man they went downhill fast after NHL14. Mainly due to the push of micro transactions for the ultimate team mode. I can only imagine how they would’ve tried to incorporate something of that nature into the NASCAR games. I shudder at the thought.
I’m on the “Nascar Thunder 2004 Was the Best NASCAR Game Ever” bandwagon. It was the first game we got when we got our thicc PS2 for Christmas in 2003. I still have that same PS2, and that same copy of NT04, and I love it. And now, it’s kind of a time capsule. In the first 2 or so years of career mode, it’s awesome seeing Mark Martin, Dale Jarrett, Rusty, Bill Elliott, and Ricky Rudd still tear it up (like the song reference? 😉) and fighting for wins. But, Dale Jr.’s AI was way too good. He could win 10 races a season if you simulated all the races.
I bought every game from 04 to 09. I also have Dirt to Daytona, and I later bought Nascar Thunder 2003. I wish I could mash up everything about 2004’s career with the multiple racing series in 05, with the option to sell your team, like you could in 06.
Everything beyond 2006 was a disappointment. And even 06 was kind of a disappointment. You could spin out if you hit the apron just ever so slightly, and that drove me crazy, because I’d hit the apron to help my car turn at some tracks in 04 and 05. Hit them in the same spots in 06, and you’re doing a 720 before you even know what happened. And that issue didn’t ever leave in 07-09. It really was a shame, and I wish they would’ve kept the engine from 2003/2004 and incorporated it in all the later games.
One good thing they did right was with Mr. Clean Speedway, they kept Rockingham in the game. The backdrop was actually kinda nice for a fantasy track.
Speaking of fantasy tracks, I rarely ever hear anyone mention Tiburon Superspeedway from NT2004. WHAT A GREAT TRACK!!! Love that place!
Man, it feels so strange seeing my video and postings in your content when I've been watching you for years 😄
About the Montreal bugs, yeah those issues are purely on PC with an emulator. In fact it's even worse for me where it just causes a straight up white screen. It is totally fine on actual hardware, but you need to have a modded console to even run it on console now unless you bought it back in the day like I did.
As you mentioned, I believe they would have put this in as an actual track in NASCAR 10. Would have been odd to throw the track out entirely or as DLC again considering that it was made for the previous years game. Would be cool to have the ability to drive trucks or cup cars on Montreal, similar to how you could drive almost any car on any track in the later Heat games. Might be possible to do it in 09 with modding, but I haven't figured it out yet.
As an F1 fan in addition to NASCAR, EA also had plans to make F1 2004 (based on the 2003 F1 season) and release it in the fall of 2003 but Sony (who had the exclusive F1 gaming rights at the time) threatened to sue EA if they did so & the plans were scrapped, making F1 Career Challenge the final F1 game EA would make until F1 '22. This was a blow for F1 fans in the US as the F1 games Sony made from 2003-2006 (with the exception of F1 Championship Edition in 2006 for the PS3) were never released in the US.
wasn't f1 21 made by ea
@@timelymirror7826 it was made by Codemasters before they got bought out by EA a few months after the game was released.
how do you know that ea was making a 2004 game
@@timelymirror7826 because the FIA (who run F1) & EA were in talks to do their deal. Plus all of the teams agreed to have their cars & drivers in the game along with all of the tracks. There were a few teams especially Sauber & BAR Honda who were really hoping for this game to come out because both teams wanted to grow their fan bases in North America through its release & because Sony did not advertise their F1 games in North America well. It almost happened because the FIA & EA agreed to a deal but then Sony threatened to sue both EA & the FIA. EA decided not to fight Sony and backed off mainly because Sony & EA were already battling in court (with 2K thrown in there as well) over who had the exclusive rights to make video games for the NHL at the time.
Watching the clips from nascar 09’ brings back so many memories. It was the first nascar game that got me into seriously racing online. Before I’d only ever raced career mode on 03’ & 05’. But 09’ I’ve probably put weeks into. Led to me getting iRacing which I still run today.
09 was a big improvement over 08. If they kept going, we could have had some decent games.
I eel like a part of why the PS1/2 gen games were so good, was because there was no or very limited online, you had worse hardware so it let the creative people show what they could do with limited hardware, CD or DVD space, and having to code around the limitations of the consoles.
That being said. EA put out a whole different series on PC vs consoles, though. On PS2/3 we got Nascar 05 and on, on PC? NASCAR SimRacing. Which, correct me if I'm wrong, but it had 04/05 Busch, 04/05 Cup with testing schemes and several of Dale Earnhardt's schemes put onto a Gen4 body. Wasn't NSR the last, at least on PC, game to officially feature both NASCAR and Dale Earnhardt's licenses in the same game?
That being said, NSR had a pretty good career mode on PC however, used to love the off track stuff and making th brightest, most easily spotted, eye searing cars/trucks I could, somehow. Sponsorless, neon bright, hideous things because why not. Give me a paint kit, give me a team to run, I'll make the worst possible paint schemes possible.
You kids crack me up. I used to rent the PS1 games. Benny Parsons sitting in a recording studio to do sound bites was classic !!!
I miss that though commentary during the race
Terry Labonte is moving through the field
Irvin is now in the 3rd position
"WHOA!"
"Look at that action!"
"He's running up through the field!"
Great video idea! When NASCAR 09 released I was still in elementary school, so I didn’t really know anything about the DLC or circuit Giles Villeneuve making it in the game either. personally I thought it was a pretty good game, and I got a lot of use out of the online paint booth that they had for awhile.
I hate that I never got to play as Ricky Carmichael in any nascar game. Nascar 10 would’ve been the one for me. But personally I feel as if the game would’ve been pretty good as they starting learning what to fix and how to approach the newer graphics and physics systems
I know it seems like a lost interest, but I would love fantasy tracks in a new nascar game.
Devils Canyon was a fun track too.
Sedona from Forza, High Speed Ring from GT and Coca Cola Superspeedway would all be great additions, but I don't imagine it would be easy for another developer to licence all three of them into their own game.
I liked how they used the fantasy tracks to sneak real world tracks into the game without licensing them. Red Ball Raceway in NASCAR 2005 was Winchester Speedway from Indiana and they even had a "wink, wink" moment with it because when you raced there in the Modifieds in Career Mode, the race was the Indiana 100 or something of that sort. They just gave the main grandstand a roof and removed the woods from around the track.
@@RB3Author yeah the Tiburon short track was supposed to be Bowman gray stadium and I think that Mr Clean Raceway was supposed to be Rockingham and Craftsman Raceway I think was supposed to be Disney World or something.
Total team control in my opinion was honestly one of the best followed by then thunders and chase for the cup. We need a playable but more interactive game in my opinion that’s more realistic. Make the career mode like your going out there as a low end team trying to make the race, bring back rivals and allies, make some races be like a rain delay, bring back the actual cockpit view, the team control section, bring back the starting grid like it us to be, pre race coverages, actual real commentators in a booth and so much. Us nascar gaming fans are tired of the same ole stuff.
What was so bad with 06? It was my first nascar game and I loved it....Helped start my Fandom for Jeff gordon
If i remember there were alot of game breaking glitches that would brick your saves, and the handling was seen as a step down from 05.
My 2nd game as a true fan and I agree. Total team control was an insane feature and the new dodge designs were great. Also had all the legends still racing (Rusty, MM, DJ), and the dominant Roush cars
I'm not aware because I started with 07, and then 08 and 09 all on the PS2. Then we got NASCAR 06 eventually and it was literally the best game I've played.
NASCAR 06 was my first game too but Atlanta was a horrible track in that game. The apron glitches are the worst part.
Not under EA Games, my favorite is still Dirt to Daytona
I think NASCAR 10 would’ve added the manufacturers decals to the cup cars and Xfinity cars and hell, maybe it would’ve had the late models and trucks, they could’ve brought the rival system back to the series, maybe some new fantasy tracks like the circle coliseum track in the video and maybe even north wilkesboro!
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Nascar 07 was actually really good. It's what Nascar 06 was supposed to be. I'd say it's the same quality of 2005 chase for the cup.
The colosseum track is references to nascar thunder 2003 commercial it be a fun crazy track for online multiplayer.
Even at it’s peak, EA couldn’t hold a candle to Papyrus and the NASCAR Racing series
I loved the early 200s, I could type in Dale Earnhardt in create player and race a bunch of his cars, and race on the beach along with a night Talladega and a Talladega roadhouse
That coliseum track reminds me of Circus Minimus from NASCAR Rumble
2003 was the best.
You could actually race to the caution.
Meaning if a accident happened you got to try to avoid it or crash but at lease you got to try.
well, 2003 was the last season that the race to the caution was allowed
You could race back to the caution in Nascar Thunder 2004.
It would be nice if we can good a good realistic nascar console game
Those graphical issues in trying to get the Montreal DLC running was likely emulation issues that'll likely be solved in the future by whoever develops 360 emulation. So take that as you will.
After Nascar 06 EA was doomed, they literally didn't take the time to get a new cover star for the 07 release when Elliott Sadler switched cars, it left the game outdated from Day 1 which I've learned is never good
I recall reading NASCAR Illustration Magazine around July 2008 talking about NASCAR 09 and EA saying they already started working on NASCAR 10
I would like to see a fan-recreation of the Chicago Pier track and the unused Coliseum track in NR2003.
NASCAR '07 for Xbox was the last NASCAR game I truly enjoyed playing. The last NASCAR game I ever played was NASCAR '11 and I haven't played any NASCAR games since.
Hold up... two different NASCAR games with the same name were released for two different game consoles in the same year? I have the PS1 version of NASCAR Thunder 2004, but I also know about the PS2 version that is completely different.
It was common in those days, the consoles couldn't handle the PC versions so they made different ones. Same with F1 Challenge
Early 2000's was golden age of every EA Franchise... then they got no competition and destroyed their games. I wish newer players of EA games understood this. Just look at Madden.... The newer generation of gamers are content in the no depth shit we get today because they weren't around when we had depth in any type of Franchise or Career mode in "simulation" games.
Nascar 09 online was great IMO, shout out to all the old crew
That ea sports intro was amazing lmao
NASCAR for PSP was an awesome portable version of NASCAR 07. It came out in late 2006 and had Elliot Sadler on the front.
I thought it was a great portable game, although the reviews were often lower than the PS2 version, mostly because rigid PSP control schemes were an issue with users playing games in general.
Aside from Elliot Sadler on the front cover, it was great playing NASCAR on PSP during very long train trips way back when it came out.
I am going to revisit that game again sometime soon.
ahhhh time to break out my PS2 and replay these old classics
4:08 Looks like Nascar Rumbles Circus Minimus track
The Colosseum track from NASCAR 10 looks like the Circus Minimus track from NASCAR Rumble.
Also, the EA Madden series was getting super popular beginning in 2008. So it wouldn't surprise me if they terminated the NASCAR deal to put more money towards the development of Madden games
I think the circular track was a reference to Circus Minimus from NASCAR Rumble!
I think if NASCAR 10 released, it would probably be the final PS2 Nascar game
thunder 2004 is where I met my love of sim racing with a great group (~bTp~) in a league on pc...reconnected recently with my team owner from those days in iracing 10+ years later.
as with most licensed racing games of the era, i think it would have lived or died by how comprehensive the online and server systems were. 09's online was solid if unspectacular and would have been a great basis to build on as we were moving into the era of the drop-in online racer.
Would of been better than 09 but no where near the Thunder Series of being good since EA wouldn't have put much effort as they were the only one with the license. Heck, it might of start another cover curse with whoever was on the cover.
I really enjoyed the single player games up until Nascar '08
'09 seemed like a carbon copy with a few fixes, but the online play was legendary.
Alot of good times and made some friends along the way.
These days if I want to race AI then I'll use NR2003 and iracing.
The one thing us 90s kids remember most about NASCAR 98 is paintball mode
6:41 the legend himself Michael Mooobs
Classic Ilya Bryzgalov quote "It's only game why you have to be mad"
What’s your thoughts on NASCAR rivals for the Nintendo switch as a holdover until we get the main game for PS five and Xbox
EA put their final chips all in on NASCAR Kart Racing...
I still play NASCAR Kart Racing to this day and the NASCAR Thunder games and they are still fun...
I played Thunder 2002 but it was a mishmosh. Sure they payed tribute to Dale Sr. before the beginning of the EA logo but I wonder if Dale Earnhardt survives could he be in the game sure he’s in Thunder 03, 04, 05, 06, and 07 as an unlockable... and showed his 01 stats including having finishing 57th in points when he passed finishing 12th in the 2001 Daytona 500...
I mean in Thunder 04 he had past paint schemes including the Legacy car with the DEI compass on the hood and the iconic Dale silhouette with the E or three and his iconic signature and by 05 a few paint schemes of Dales was there by 06 and 07 it’s just the black number three and what’s intriguing is that in 06 and 07 for RCR it said he has “no teammates”.
I still wonder why EA did that?
And by 08 and 09 he was gone from the Thunder plates my theory is that having him in the game gave fans mixed feelings...
I remember playing nascar 98 on ps1. Raced as mike skinner from last to first.
Also by the way there was a full circular coliseum and NASCAR rumble
If if the game was released, it'll probably be better playable on their "PlayStation 2 version" I still don't get why they still NASCAR 08,09, on the PS2 which they'll probably again would have done for NASCAR 10
Wasn't Dodge Speedway a circular track in Nascar 05 chase for the cup?
If that is the one with the pit UNDER the stands-- yes-- it was kewl!
this could have been a good game but we will never know
This Would Explained Why There's No NASCAR '10.
I have seen you are quite the expert on the nascar games what would be the best one for having all cpu racers and just wathing the cpus race
NR2003
@@Ace__ am i able to make multiple of my own racers and have them go against one an other as CPUs?
Thanks ice there is little info on this game
This game was the greatest NASCAR online game for console. If servers opened back up, it'd probably still be better than most other console NASCAR games. I played this game for hours and it was my first game I played online. I was probably 13 when I started, and played all the way up until NTG 2011 came out. That game was nowhere near as fun. This game is iconic. The ability to import any paint scheme, great restrictor plate racing, just really fun all around. I miss it, and those days, and the people I met. What a time it was to play this game. Truly a staple in my life. never really did any offline as it kinda sucked, but I was perfectly happy going online, learning setups, running cool schemes, and being in leagues, I really didn't ever think of single player.
We need EuroNascar too
I worked on Nascar 10 with Eutechnyx - I left before it was completed and I believe it was delayed and released as Nascar 11 iirc, if you have any questions feel free to shoot, will do my best to answer.
That explains why they still used the splitter braced cots and why Robby Gordon was a Toyota still.
@@juanatethejetdryer7580 I can't remember the rules of Nascar from back then so much tbh, but if that helps align the memory for you glad to have helped put things together :)
I honestly don't know how the game did, I remember at the time the damage model we were working on was cutting edge with torn metal etc, stuff you still don't see today ? if that made it into the game IDK, the AI system was quite in depth as well using a multi lane corridor system I designed, in testing at least the AI performed quite well, all that said I have never to this day played a final product.
I was unaware that ANY of the EA NASCAR games were considered "the best ever." Dirt to Daytona was by far the better game in 2002, and if we include the PC games, NASCAR Racing 2003 beats anything EA ever made. I'd rather play the original NASCAR Racing in VGA mode than most of EA's NASCAR games.
Also, I've never understood why Trip Hawkins always gets the blame for EA. They became a big name precisely because of the great games they published under his guidance. By the time they were buying up license exclusivity and pumping out retread after retread Trip was long gone.
Nascar 98 is where I spent the most time.
this is a video I didn't know I needed
Nascar 09 lobbies were dumb lit 😂 i was on the rawfuel clan/team on the 360 we use to bully other teams or players at the plate tracks lmao
The career mode on nascar 08 PS2 was so much fun
Nascar 09 along with NR2003 is what got me into online racing
I have just watched this, and now I think that if it’s been released, it would follow the previous game flow sequence and there would be different full cup and truck series generations to pick, even more drivers like the games that came before it such as NASCAR 2005 ChASE FOR ThE CUP NASCAR 06 TOTAl TEAM CONTROl, NASCAR 07, NASCAR 08, and NASCAR 09. On the other hand, partially NASCAR ThUNdER 2002, even though whoever you select, you’re still in a Winston cup race, same for NASCAR ThUNdER 2003 and NASCAR ThUNdER 2004. Although, for NASCAR 2005 ChASE FOR ThE CUP INTO NASCAR 09, Not to mention Days of Thunder and some of the legend cars, in which I think the legend cars were discontinued after the game NASCAR ThUNdER 2004. As well as the 2010 Days of Thunder game having the main movie cars in it| Rowdy Burns Exxon, Cole Trickle Mello Yello, Cole Trickle Superflo, Cole Trickle City Chevrolet, and Russ Wheeler Hardee’s which The Design of a 2010 video game names Days of Thunder is very well known for, that would be a good idea to throw onto the NASCAR 10 game, also! Sometimes those very five cars are great to to refer to as Legacy and or Legends! No wonder how iconic those race cars are in our NASCAR cycle! In case of this, I actually, honestly, 😆 had a strange kind of dream about this game being an existing masterpiece game!