Race the Real Car of Tomorrow—Experience the true physics and handling of NASCAR’s newest race car, and unleash new racing strategies to capture the NEXTEL Cup championship.

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Product Description

In NASCAR 08, you'll take the wheel and drive your way to the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series championship in the most realistic NASCAR racing game yet. As the new rookie driver on the circuit, develop your racing skills to gain licenses and contracts from hungry owners and unlock legendary top performing cars from NASCAR's biggest stars. Gain new experiences during every race then modify your car's handling with over 40 tuning options to truly master every track. Share your setups with NASCAR's gaming community, then challenge the field in live races with up to 16 players online. Experience tomorrow's racing today in NASCAR 08.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7520 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 15566
• Released on: 2007-07-23
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .25 pounds

Features

• Race the Real Car of Tomorrow—Experience the true physics and handling of NASCAR’s newest race car, and unleash new racing strategies to capture the NEXTEL Cup championship.
• Enhanced State-of-the-art Visuals and Innovative New Vehicle Telemetry Visor (VTV).
• Advanced Car Tuning—Master all 22 NASCAR-sanctioned tracks by modifying your car’s handling to exact specifications with more than 40 comprehensive tuning controls.
• All-New Career Mode and Challenging Mini-Games help you develop your racing skills through adrenaline-pumping mini-games, focused on bump drafting, spin recovery, turn apex, and more.
• Expanded Online Play—Prove yourself as the top NASCAR driver by challenging up to 15 other online racers at the same time.

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Customer Reviews

This Is A Hard But Rewarding Game.
When I first got this game I was very excited. The game looked very promising with the Car of Tommorrow and the addition of the Toyota. When I popped it in my system though the experience was totally different then I expected. This is a very difficult game to play. You oversteer just a little bit and your going to wreck. You hit too many cars you get black flagged. I was getting very frusturated and was about to return it back the day I bought it. I'm happy I decided not to though. After about 3 days of playing it I started to get the hang of the game. The driving system makes you learn how to become a good player and once you start finishing in the top 10 it feels like you acomplished something. This is a racing simulator and shouldn't be confused with the other arcade Nascar games. The graphics in my opinion look very decent between the shadows and how the sun reflects off the car. It's all solid. As for the sound it's about on par with all the older Nascar titles so don't be expecting too much from this department. There is no multiplayer mode unless you go online which kind of sucks. The bright side though is there is a solid list of racers in the game. In the truck series there's about 10 real life drivers such as Johhny Benson and in the Busch/National Series there's about 30 guys and in the Nextel series they have about 45 real life drivers which is more than there previous titles. Some notable drivers are missing though such as Carl Edwards due to some licenseing agreements. Overall this is a good game but it isn't meant for someone who wants to pop in the game and start winning races. It takes time and patients but it pays off in the end. Once I finally got the hang of the game I started having a blast. If I reviewed this game the day it came out it probably would have been a 1 or 2 star game like most of the people are saying but now I believe it deserves a solid 4 stars for achieving a sense of realism such as in the damage department, flags, and the handling of the car itself. If you want a very realistic game of racing I suggest you pick this up otherwise if you want a more arcade racing title stick to the older Nascar titles such as last years Nascar 07.

Not too bad.
I've very critical about EAs attempt at Nascar games, and this one is the best effort so far. It definitely drives as a simulator so I can understand all of the negative reviews if you are attempting to play this with handheld controller. I bought the force feedback wheel and it works great.

The best thing about this game is that there are no dumb gimicks like "total team control" or anything silly like that. Jut decent racing with decent graphics. Not bad.

For Hardcore Fans A+....... For Normal Gamers F-
Unless you are a die-hard NASCAR fan that wants a very complicated simulation game, this is not for you. The handling is awful. You have to go into deep detail into the car setup for each track to even have a chance to make it around a single lap, much less win.

If you understand the complete mechanics of NASCAR cars, and know what inputs to apply, this game would be fun. EA Sports should have set the easy and normal game play levels as they have in previous games and set this game's Hard level to what its current Easy level is. That would have taken care of both the hardcore gamers and the normal gamers.

Seeing how there is no multiplayer and steering is non-existant, I strongly recommend you rent this game before you buy it. I love the whole NASCAR game series and have played them all, but I must admit I am very disappointed with the 08 version. Unless you are an expert (which the majority of people that play these games aren't) you'll become too frustrated to continue playing after about 10 minutes.