What changes can we look forward to with this year’s career mode?ĭT: Career mode has been one of the main areas of focus for us this time around. There was an obvious hunger, and with the sport’s popularity on the increase, that created a huge desire from the fans for a new game.Įutechnyx holds the NASCAR license for several more years so we’re looking at some very interesting concepts of where to take the franchise.ĭHGF: Both last year’s game and Inside Line have career modes. For a major sports franchise, this is unheard of. What brought the license back with a vengeance and what are the plans for the license from here on?ĭave Thompson: When NTG11 was published, it had been almost two and a half years since the last NASCAR game. Inside Line will be the third NASCAR game in eighteen months for Activision. I sat down with David Thompson, executive producer of Nascar The Game: Inside Line to see just what Eutechnyx has planned for racing fans in this upcoming game.ĭiehard GameFAN: There was a drought of NASCAR games between June 2008 ( NASCAR ’09) and March of 2011 with NASCAR The Game: 2011. Well, Mike gets his wish as Eutechnyx is back with Nascar The Game: Inside Line which will hit shelves later this year.

Still, he was hopeful for an improved version in 2012. O’Reilly found that he really enjoyed the single player mode but loathed the online portion of the game. B y that time Pankonin had moved on but Michael O’Reilly stepped up to review the first entry in the new NASCAR gaming franchise.

The price of used copies of ’09 went up once retailers realized the series was done and that seemed to be that.Įnter Activision and Eutechnyx that revived the series in 2011 with Nascar The Game: 2011. EA gave up the license and NASCAR video games were but a fond memory for those that had played them.

Sports titles don’t normally go dormant like that but there it was. Little did Chris Pankonin know when he reviewed Nascar ’09 back in July of 2008 that it would be the last game in the franchise for nearly three years.

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