This is a sim where the slightest turn of the steering wheel or tap of the brakes can make a major difference. Particularly when using a force feedback wheel/pedal setup, you'll be able to feel, see, and hear all the subtleties of NASCAR racing, from the slightest squeal of tires on the edge of their grip to the unique bumps and ruts in each track. Papyrus partnered with Goodyear and Jasper Motorsports (Winston Cup team #77) to make the game's physics modeling even more realistic than in the past. You'll quickly find that NASCAR Racing 2003 is a highly detailed simulation, one of the most detailed and realistic ones to grace the PC. And while you won't find the helpful track tours featured in NASCAR Racing 2002, you'll still get a number of very useful driving lessons.
You can even opt for an all-out arcade mode with indestructible cars. You'll be able to toggle traction control, anti-lock brakes, and automatic shifting, among other features.
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NASCAR Racing 2003 includes numerous driver aids to help newbies get into the game. You'll be able to run through a complete race weekend with a timed practice, qualifying session, happy hour, and the actual race, or just skip to the race itself. For each race, you can alter numerous settings, including the weather, number of laps, and number of competitors.
#NASCAR 2004 PC GAME DRIVERS#
NASCAR Racing 2003 is a licensed game, so you'll find the real-world drivers and 25 real-world tracks (including a handful of night race variants) and one fantasy track, the enormous "Coca-Cola Superspeedway." You'll be able to run practice sessions, single races, and full championship seasons.
#NASCAR 2004 PC GAME SERIES#
Fortunately, Papyrus decided to take the high road and finish the series in style by including new features and enhancements, as well as all the core features you've come to expect. Of course, Papyrus has also been wowing gamers for years with their NASCAR Racing series.ĭespite the praise, awards, and sales that the NASCAR Racing series has enjoyed, NASCAR Racing 2003 will mark the series' premature end. Grand Prix Legends was one of the most demanding and rewarding racing sims in PC history, and it still enjoys a diehard fan base years after its release.
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise to fans of serious racing sims, considering Papyrus' reputation in the field. Papyrus' NASCAR Racing 2003 Season does all that and more, offering up thrilling racing action with the realism that hardcore fans crave. Televised NASCAR races don't always do a good job of showing you the thrilling sense of speed, the ever-present danger, the subtleties of each track, and the nerves of steel required to smoothly navigate them. Often, mere inches separate the cars, and mere fractions of a second separate daring maneuvers from horrifying crashes. But the bigger truth for race aficionados is that NASCAR is about dozens of cars crammed onto tiny tracks - sometimes just half a mile long - and blasting around them at nearly 200mph. Some people mock NASCAR races as just a bunch of guys turning left for a few hours and there's some truth to that. Papyrus has devoted great effort towards making NASCAR Racing 2003 Season a fitting culmination to the critically-acclaimed series. New graphics are designed to bring the racing world to life at an unprecedented level of detail, with an active pit row, helicopters and blimps, and even the accumulation of oil and dirt on the windscreens.ĭue to changes in the rights to the license, this may be the developer's final official NASCAR game (at least for several years). The physics engine has been refined and enhanced under consultation with NASCAR team engineers. With 23 NASCAR tracks, tutorials, driving aids, and online capability, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season is designed to be the developer's most complete, full-featured NASCAR game to date. Along with the challenging AI, believable physics, and real-life tracks, cars, and drivers for which the earlier NASCAR Racing games are known, this 2003 release boasts a number of new, fan-requested features and the most engulfing 3D graphics yet in the series. Racing game experts at Papyrus steer their long-running NASCAR series towards the finish line with this 2003 release.