Quick Look: NASCAR: Unleashed

The trend of horrific and nonsensical NASCAR releases continues...

Wow, not much luv here, guess I'll check it out anyways....not that I in any way care about this game.

Brad unleashed..GB code for Brad be sinning....

Ought to have a plow on the front of that car.

I'm convinced this was made 8 years ago and the janitor found the disc behind a toilet.

Lens Flares: The Game

Welcome to 2004

Anyone else getting a bizarre Blur vibe from this? Like Activision straight-up used the code Bizarre wrote?

Seems like a fun arcadey driving game, graphics aside. It was developed for the Wii and 3DS too, so.

..a.. and this is not WiiWare™?

Somehow they made racing a car at nearly 200 MPH look boring. The sense of speed isn't really there and the general presentation is just super bland. That's a shame. It's a concept that could be pretty good.

The rubber band AI in this game looks awful. Honestly Ryan had no problem getting back into 10th place after a huge wipe out but any time he would get around 5th place suddenly everyone was just going so fast.

well this looks dumb.

they still make dreamcast games?

Hmm. F4 or this...it's hard to decide ;)

Yeah, getting a serious Blur vibe. Except if Blur looked bad. And was Nascar. And was just worse in every possible way.

I don't know if I approve of quick looks actually being quick.

@slightconfuse said:

they still make dreamcast games?

For real, everything about this reminds me of a Dreamcast or N64 racer, like some weird version of Rush or something.

Except it looks...less fun and more barebones. Which really sucks, since I could do with another arcade racer. Someone bring back Beetle Adventure Racing.

Cliffhanger ending. Will Ryan finish the race? Will Patrick run over and start singing the Daytona USA theme? Will Brad throw down the microphone and walk away in disgust? Will I decide to drive on North Tryon St and pass by Charlotte Motor Speedway?

I guess Kotick wanted a new yacht or something. 
 
Aw who am I kidding, he gets paid no matter what. 

I don't say this lightly....

That looked big rigs bad.

Is there no music in this game?

Like Brad, I am not really a Nascar fan.... I will buy one game every generation from a bargain bin for like 3 bucks just for the heck of it. Sunday afternoon I will have it on in the background while doing other stuff... I am not a fanatic by any means, but I also don't find the sport intolerable either...

In that, I am willing to bet that this game will sell during the holidays...like upwards of 100,000+ copies which probably took little to no effort.

so Activision , im gonna go and play Daytona USA over here that costs me $10 2 weeks ago and is 10x more awesome than this. Seriously Retail for this WTF even at $40 its 10x the price of Daytona USA and is 10X worse even with the added depth of this game.

Have to agree with Brad, if the Nascar races were more like this then maybe I'd watch them & enjoy the games more than driving in a oval track of real Nascar. Seems okay for a game but looks like they just couldn't make two sim Nascar racing games in one year so boom, arcade racer.

wtf.......

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

Yeesh.

@Toodles said:

I'm convinced this was made 8 years ago and the janitor found the disc behind a toilet.

I thought this had a good chance of being true, but you would think an experienced janitor would be able to tell this game is trash.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but this just looks pathetic. Way too arcade-ish for my tastes. I'll stick with Forza 4, thank you.

Is this a Wii game?

Sure looks like it.

@Rmack said:

@slightconfuse said:

they still make dreamcast games?

For real, everything about this reminds me of a Dreamcast or N64 racer, like some weird version of Rush or something.

Except it looks...less fun and more barebones. Which really sucks, since I could do with another arcade racer. Someone bring back Beetle Adventure Racing.

Dude the Rush games are way better then this looks.

Did ryan just say "sunna-co?"

SUN-O-CO...people pronounce things weird on the wrong coast.

This looks like one of those games that used to come in boxes of cereal. A cheap download would be tolerable, but $40 for this is ridiculous.

Clearly you guys don't care, but recent deaths of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli are still fresh in some peoples heads. Seeing this QL picture, is rather unsettling.

@Rmack said:

@slightconfuse said:

they still make dreamcast games?

For real, everything about this reminds me of a Dreamcast or N64 racer, like some weird version of Rush or something.

Except it looks...less fun and more barebones. Which really sucks, since I could do with another arcade racer. Someone bring back Beetle Adventure Racing.

Dude the Rush games are way better then this looks.

@buckybit said:

Clearly you guys don't care, but recent deaths of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli are still fresh in some peoples heads. Seeing this QL picture, is rather unsettling.

I think this terrible game is more of an insult to their memories.

Who the fuck green-lit this game? This looks abysmal in every regard.

This game time travelled into the QL from a 1999 arcade

@Phished0ne said:

Did ryan just say "sunna-co?"

SUN-O-CO...people pronounce things weird on the wrong coast.

Ryan's version is just wrong pronunciation anywhere. Even if you were to pronounce the word phonetically, it would have to be spelled "Sunnoco" for Ryan's interpretation to make any sense. So yes, it is clearly "sun-oh-co", not "sun-nuh-co".

Being a southern gentleman myself I can relate to Brad's somewhat nostalgic response to some of these cars. That being said, I have never liked NASCAR even though both of my parents are pretty big fans.

Looks like an uprezzed port of an Xbox port of an old arcade game. Why is it $40?

WOW! Talk about shamelessly using that Blur technology! Color separation? Object HUD on the bumpers?

Fuck Activision.

Hell yeah, I love Ridge Racer!

It doesn't make sense, I don't get how this game got released? Contractual obligations? It's appalling! Just did a search on twitter to see if it's been mentioned at all, two tweets, TWO!

I love it whenever Brad gets to refer back to his southern upbringing. I missed out on the accent thing but being from the south is a hilarious history to have once you've emigrated to a more civilized region (i.e., anywhere but the midwest*). I even know what Brad's talking about re: soft drinks and laundry detergent (Ricky Rudd y'all), to my everlasting shame.

*SUCK IT DOWN MIDWEST, YA JUST GOT BURNT

UNLEASHED FROM THE REJECT BIN.

Yeah this looks...really.....not good.

@sear said:

@Atlas said:

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

Yeesh.

It's Activision.

Exactly.

@buckybit said:

Clearly you guys don't care, but recent deaths of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli are still fresh in some peoples heads. Seeing this QL picture, is rather unsettling.

No, sorry. If you find the image of two badly rendered cars crashing into each other in anyway related to the deaths of two race drivers (one of whom rode a motorbike) then you're delusional.

@buckybit said:

Clearly you guys don't care, but recent deaths of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli are still fresh in some peoples heads. Seeing this QL picture, is rather unsettling.

Really dude? REALLY? Because that doesn't look like an opened wheel race car OR a motorcycle. Do cars on the street also remind you of them? How about birds? Oatmeal? GOD! *turns over table*

Everything about this looks awful... 

Nascar Unleashed Endurance Run please!

Surprised that the game is neither a downloadable, therefore probably retailing at a full 60, or using any of the motion controls.