65
NASCAR Arcade Rush is exactly what it promises, delivering a simplified and casual racing game without any specialized complications or the like. Using colors in a charming visuals, it offers a light and simple gameplay, perfect for lazy afternoons, but far from the sophistication that many motorsport fans expect.
50
NASCAR Arcade Rush isn’t a total disaster – there are worse arcade racing games out there. It does disappoint with its racing action that just isn’t as much fun as it should be, however, and there isn’t much content considering its asking price. Pick it up at a discount and you might have some fun with it, especially if you play it locally with friends, but otherwise there are other, cheaper, arcade racing games more worthy of your time and money.
70
NASCAR Arcade Rush lives up to its name and delivers a fun, non-simulation racing game that features reimaginings of some of the most iconic racing tracks in the USA. However, it isn’t outlandish and exciting enough to completely win over an average arcade racing game fan, nor is it a love letter enough to NASCAR to make it a must-own game for stock car racing enthusiasts. Instead, it’s in the middle ground, where if you dig both, then you’ll have a good time, but you’ll still find yourself moving on to other games sooner rather than later.
0
This game is a steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers had the audacity to charge $50 for this typical arcade racing shovelware game. When I pay $50, I expect superior quality than this. It is $20 now, but I will be judging it by the initial price. Even at $20 this game is still not worth it. It is exactly what you would expect from a shovelware arcade racer. From the limited quirky customization options to the nonexistent damage, this game fails to have anything noticeably better than arcade shovelware racers. It has the NASCAR name on the cover, yet there isn't a single licensed car, NASCAR driver, or real-life sponsor sticker. The cars are based on NASCAR stock cars across multiple generations, with half of them looking almost nothing like the real thing. The next-gen stock car Mustang looks unrecognizable, it has a BMW grille with Dominator GTX tailights. I was literally on the verge of vomiting when I saw that Dodge Charger Daytona with Datsun 240Z headlights. It's pathetic an official NASCAR game has off-brand NASCAR cars. The physics are beyond horrible. The maps are trash. The waterfalls look like milk on a hologram. ● The online multiplayer is completely dead. It took me 40 minutes to finally get a race through matchmaking, only for that player to rage quit halfway through the race. There is also local multiplayer which is trash anyways. The graphics are a joke. These lazy developers only gave us like 10 cars. Even though this is just another generic shovelware racing game, it is highly embarrassing these developers can give me things AAA developers completely fail at delivering. The online may be a ghost town but at least it's there. At one point CDPR and Naughty Dog were regarded as the "best developers ever" by the "muh dark story" toy-collecting millennials, yet both of them tapped out to something this no-name studio can do with a much smaller budget, and that's online. CDPR and ND can't even do local multiplayer for goodness sake. These no-name developers can give me a PS5 version, yet Rockstar failed to do that with RDR1 in 2023. This game has a physical version, where is that Alan Wake II disc at Rocksteady? It's just further proof developers these days are very greedy and lazy. I don't recommend this game at all.
7
A Team6 game that is surprisingly polished, albeit, rather short. I do like how each race track is represented (ex. Watkins Glen having plenty of waterfalls similar to the waterfalls from the Watkins Glen State Park in real life), also each unique music in each track. The game feels very fast paced and the controls feel nice and snappy. If only there were more people playing the online mode however.
NASCAR Arcade Rush
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Sep 15, 2023
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Available after 4 critic reviews
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Sep 18, 2023
70
NASCAR Arcade Rush lives up to its name and delivers a fun, non-simulation racing game that features reimaginings of some of the most iconic racing tracks in the USA. However, it isn’t outlandish and exciting enough to completely win over an average arcade racing game fan, nor is it a love letter enough to NASCAR to make it a must-own game for stock car racing enthusiasts. Instead, it’s in the middle ground, where if you dig both, then you’ll have a good time, but you’ll still find yourself moving on to other games sooner rather than later.
Oct 3, 2023
65
NASCAR Arcade Rush is exactly what it promises, delivering a simplified and casual racing game without any specialized complications or the like. Using colors in a charming visuals, it offers a light and simple gameplay, perfect for lazy afternoons, but far from the sophistication that many motorsport fans expect.
Sep 26, 2023
50
NASCAR Arcade Rush isn’t a total disaster – there are worse arcade racing games out there. It does disappoint with its racing action that just isn’t as much fun as it should be, however, and there isn’t much content considering its asking price. Pick it up at a discount and you might have some fun with it, especially if you play it locally with friends, but otherwise there are other, cheaper, arcade racing games more worthy of your time and money.
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Nov 27, 2023
7
A Team6 game that is surprisingly polished, albeit, rather short. I do like how each race track is represented (ex. Watkins Glen having plenty of waterfalls similar to the waterfalls from the Watkins Glen State Park in real life), also each unique music in each track. The game feels very fast paced and the controls feel nice and snappy. If only there were more people playing the online mode however.
Feb 26, 2024
0
This game is a steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers had the audacity to charge $50 for this typical arcade racing shovelware game. When I pay $50, I expect superior quality than this. It is $20 now, but I will be judging it by the initial price. Even at $20 this game is still not worth it. It is exactly what you would expect from a shovelware arcade racer. From the limited quirky customization options to the nonexistent damage, this game fails to have anything noticeably better than arcade shovelware racers. It has the NASCAR name on the cover, yet there isn't a single licensed car, NASCAR driver, or real-life sponsor sticker. The cars are based on NASCAR stock cars across multiple generations, with half of them looking almost nothing like the real thing. The next-gen stock car Mustang looks unrecognizable, it has a BMW grille with Dominator GTX tailights. I was literally on the verge of vomiting when I saw that Dodge Charger Daytona with Datsun 240Z headlights. It's pathetic an official NASCAR game has off-brand NASCAR cars. The physics are beyond horrible. The maps are trash. The waterfalls look like milk on a hologram. ● The online multiplayer is completely dead. It took me 40 minutes to finally get a race through matchmaking, only for that player to rage quit halfway through the race. There is also local multiplayer which is trash anyways. The graphics are a joke. These lazy developers only gave us like 10 cars. Even though this is just another generic shovelware racing game, it is highly embarrassing these developers can give me things AAA developers completely fail at delivering. The online may be a ghost town but at least it's there. At one point CDPR and Naughty Dog were regarded as the "best developers ever" by the "muh dark story" toy-collecting millennials, yet both of them tapped out to something this no-name studio can do with a much smaller budget, and that's online. CDPR and ND can't even do local multiplayer for goodness sake. These no-name developers can give me a PS5 version, yet Rockstar failed to do that with RDR1 in 2023. This game has a physical version, where is that Alan Wake II disc at Rocksteady? It's just further proof developers these days are very greedy and lazy. I don't recommend this game at all.
SummaryExperience the high-octane thrill of NASCAR racing in a completely new way with intense arcade races on iconic NASCAR tracks, totally reengineered with jaw-dropping twists, hair-raising turns, gravity-defying jumps, nitro boosts and other surprises. Customize your car and driver as you compete to take the top position across a variety o... Read More
Rated Efor Everyone
Platforms:
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
- PC
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date:Sep 15, 2023
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Publisher:GameMill Publishing
