Game modes include a Season mode, where you can choose the car of your favorite driver and compete in multiple seasons. Choose advanced or standard mode (assists) and modify or load gameplay, display, controller, and sound settings. Before choosing a game mode, you can adjust various settings to your liking. Unless you choose to qualify, you'll take on the competition, starting somewhere in the middle of the pack. In Quick Race, you'll be able to jump into a race as one of your favorite drivers on your favorite track. Featuring 43 cars on the grid, over 50 NASCAR drivers, 23 Winston Cup series tracks, a complete career mode, and intense multiplayer racing, EA Sports opens the throttle, looking to blow the competition off the track.įrom the main menu, you can start a quick race, select a game mode, or adjust your settings. Almost a year later, with additional development time and experience with the PS2, EA Sports hits the track and waves the green flag once again, in the form of NASCAR Thunder 2002, and this time, they mean business. With a stellar combination of clean graphics, a steady frame rate, and white-knuckle-racing action, NASCAR Heat 2002 came a little closer to what most oval-track racing fans were hoping for.īut as we all know, EA plays second fiddle to no one. A few months later, Infogrames released NASCAR Heat 2002, which improved upon EA's effort in almost every respect. Plagued by horrible graphics, compounded by dithering resolutions, and an erratic frame rate, NASCAR 2001 left many racing fans in a state of disillusionment. NASCAR videogame fans were extremely excited, that is, until they played it. EA Sports' first foray into the world of PS2 NASCAR racing hit retail shelves not long after the machine's launch.

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