EA Sports NASCAR , alternately known as NASCAR Thunder , is a series of NASCAR video games published by EA Sports . The series began with NASCAR 98 and NASCAR 99 in 1997 and 1998. EA Sports released NASCAR Thunder 2002 in 2001, and ever since then, Jeff Gordon (2002), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2003), and Tony Stewart (2004) were on the cover. In 2004, they changed the name of the game to NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup and added the new features to make the game more up-to-date with the recent changes to NASCAR. Kevin Harvick was on the cover. The next year, they changed the name yet again to NASCAR 06: Total Team Control . Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson were on the cover. The new features were swapping cars with teammates and voice-recognition support for use with the crew chief . The following year, the game was titled NASCAR 07 and features Elliott Sadler on the cover. The new features include a new speed blur effect and an all-new momentum system, used to describe drivers' strong and weak racetrack types. In 2004, the feature was a "Grudges and Alliances" feature in which if the player hits a car, they could retaliate. The feature received a mixed reaction.
6-460: After NASCAR Kart Racing was released in 2009, EA discontinued the series due to budget cuts and the expiration of EA Sports' contract with NASCAR . Polyphony Digital has since bought the rights to develop official NASCAR cars and tracks in their simulation video game Gran Turismo 5 , marking the end of the series under the EA Sports label. Eutechnyx later acquired the license, starting
12-461: A Nintendo console since NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup . There are twelve different racetracks, four of which are real venues. All real venues except Talladega Superspeedway include not only a part of the real track, but a fictional, off-road section. At Daytona International Speedway and Bristol Motor Speedway , the finish line is located on the off-road section. At Dover International Speedway ,
18-485: The EA Sports NASCAR series. Due to low sales numbers for NASCAR 09 and other factors such as a difficulty making new features, the production of the annual simulation-style NASCAR games stopped until Eutechnyx 's release of NASCAR The Game: 2011 . EA's license as NASCAR's official video game producer expired upon the release of Gran Turismo 5 . This game marks the first NASCAR video game released on
24-679: The NASCAR The Game series with NASCAR The Game: 2011 . This stock car racing video game article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . NASCAR Kart Racing NASCAR Kart Racing is a kart racing video game that was released for the Wii console on February 10, 2009. The game features fourteen real NASCAR drivers and ten fictional drivers. The cover drivers are, from left to right, Carl Edwards , Kyle Busch , Dale Earnhardt Jr. , Jeff Gordon , Tony Stewart , and Jimmie Johnson . Other drivers featured in
30-510: The finish line is located on the real track, but is located just after the crossover from the off-road section. The fantasy tracks are Beltway Battle, Cactus Pass, Junkyard, Race Oil Harbor, Dinosaur Canyon, Red Clay Run, Riverside, and Patriot Park. NASCAR Kart Racing received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic . IGN and Nintendo Life found the game fun and praised its controls, aesthetics, creativity, handling, and multiplayer, but took minor issue with
36-589: The game are Jeff Burton , Denny Hamlin , Kasey Kahne , Kevin Harvick , Elliott Sadler , and Matt Kenseth . Joey Logano and Richard Petty are unlockable drivers in the game, either by winning an amount of trophies or discovering their cheat code. The fictional drivers in the game are Maurice L'eclair, Monica Torres, Kelly Kates, Linda Leadbetter, Shakes McDaniel, Thriller Tadwell, Billy Backfire, Bobby Backfire, Luke Trigger, and Terri Winsome. This would be EA's only NASCAR title produced for 2009 and last game in
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