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Quick Look: NASCAR: Unleashed

Ryan and Brad explore their inner mullet while making some racing rivals.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 4 2011

Posted by: Thomas

In This Episode:

NASCAR Unleashed

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NASCAR!

Needs more dubstep..

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bah not trackmania 2

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Why can't we just make Afterburner but with cars already?

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QuickLook is quick.

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Edited By DjCmeP

What's this..a QL that's under 20 minutes long?

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The cars are actually going right sometimes, not just left. Unleashed indeed.

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What an ugly game.

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Wait? This isn't an XBLA game? and it is a 40 bucks retail game? What the hell???

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$40 disc product? For a game that looks like a bad downloadable game?

Yeesh.

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Nacsar is the most boring shit ever.

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This has horrible graphics and seemingly non-existent physics. What a terrible product.

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I think that if the cars speed would quadruple in real life like it does in this game I would actually be able to sit through an entire race.

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Edited By BlazeHedgehog

This game looks REALLY annoying. The graphics are ugly, the announcer sounds like a tool, that sun glare at the start of the race is downright painful, and the camera is awful.

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looks like they lifted the on the car interface stuff from blur, another activision game.

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Midway made a game like this for Indy Cars about 11 years ago that was equally bare-bones and shit.

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This seems like a kids game to me, and considering that - it doesn't seem terrible for a very young audience.

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I was kinda pumped until I realized that this wasn't a $4.99 downloadable.

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looks like a Dreamcast game in so many ways.

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That lense flare is ridiculous.

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@DjCmeP said:

What's this..a QL that's under 20 minutes long?

Would you like to watch more than 10 min of this game?....

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@StrikeALight said:

That lense flare is ridiculous.

The sun actually phases completely through buildings at times.

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Edited By SuperTess

Blur: Nascar Edition

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Goin' to the Farm and Fleet before work. This is for the PSP, right?

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Looks like an iPhone game.

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Who would put a leash on NASCAR in the first place?

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11 minute quick look..... says it all !!!

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@AngelN7 said:

@DjCmeP said:

What's this..a QL that's under 20 minutes long?

Would you like to watch more than 10 min of this game?....

I'd like to see a TNT of this game.

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Edited By Vonocourt

As someone who was raised by an avid fan of nascar, spending many of my days playing with transformers while in the racetrack's stand, what the fuck is this shit? I couldn't care less about current nascar beyond thinking the cars are still cool, but making a super arcady nascar game just seems to be a terrible thing to do.

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I'm not sure if anyone else noticed this, but this looks like complete shit.

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@thirteenyahs said:

I'm not sure if anyone else noticed this, but this looks like complete shit.

Now that you mention it...

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I used to bag Jeff and Ward Burton's groceries...

This is NASCAR Country, son!!!

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Why does this even exist?

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The graphics remind me of Carmageddon 2 without all the killing. This isn't on disc is it?

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The car in the preview picture sure looks unleashed. 

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This is a retail product? Seriously?

Is this some kind of "Uhhh the people who like nascar are to stupid to download stuff" thinking?

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This seems like a NASCAR game made to appeal to people who are not fans of traditional NASCAR. It is like making a game where you race F1 cars on dirt roads.

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Come on Brad, you should know that NASCAR is the France family and basically runs at the whims of whatever the France family wants. Like how when a new car line joins they suddenly win a bunch of races as if NASCAR inspectors where looking the other way.

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This thing is 40 bones? Daaayyyymn son.

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40 $ ? For this? Good luck with that...

I wouldn't even touch it if someone offered me 10$ for playing this shit.

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....Wait.....THIS ISN'T DAYTONA USA??!?!

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This looks terrible. Absolutely awful.

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I was shocked and appalled when Brad said this was 40 bucks. How is this not a XBLA game?

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This game looks kind of infuriating to play, and I can't imagine it's worth it as a disc-based nearly full-price title.

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This is bad. REALLY bad. And this is coming from a person that has a really high tolerance for budget games. I'm not paying $40 for this game. It looks horribly shallow and more frustrating than fun. Get.....off my car!!! And what are those cars.....90's Mitsubishi Eclipses???

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When they say upcoming do they mean this is like an alpha build?

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Fuck you activision for the Y button prompt in the back bumper.

Edit: wait there using the blur engine for this?! (Looks like a striped down bad looking blur) just...man.

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Can't blame them for trying, but, 40 dollars?! pass that shit

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This looks like a PS2 game. Goddamn this is ugly.

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Has anyone else been noticing compression artifacting in the middle of the video on the HTML5 player?

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Bobby LaBonte don't give a fuck.