Dirt Track Racing (Jewel Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great game, but if you want to multiply the fun, race online! You need to download a patch in order to make it work but is well worth the effort. Install the game with the multiplayer option. Then install the patch. Click on the gamespy icon... and click refresh when it comes up. Pick a server.. right click.. and launch...
This is the most fun! There are hundreds of people from all over the world racing.. and its a blast!
I can't wait to see the new Dirt Track Racing 2 game!

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In Dirt Track Racing, players start with $1,000 in their pocket.With the money, players need to purchase their vehicle.They start in the lowest class of competition and will need to buy a hobby stock car for $500.Then by winning prize money and attracting sponsorships the player can purchase faster vehicles, racing parts to upgrade their vehicles and enter new classes of competition.Resource management and decision making are just as critical as driving skills if players want to escalate their careers, from amateur to professional.Dirt Track Racing also features 8 separate series of competitions (local, regional and national) of varying difficulty.Each competition has a full simulation of practice, qualifying, heats and main.Dirt Track Racing features 3 different play modes (in arcade or full simulation), including single-player racing only, career-mode and multiplayer (up to 10 players) over LAN and Internet.Other game features include:30 Tracks in 12 different race series: * Length (1/8th to full mile) * Banking (flat to 33 degrees) * Clay or dirt * Oval, D-oval, tri-oval, egg-shaped, figure 8 (with collisions)Three Classes: * Hobby or Pure Stock (cheap, no modifications) * Production Stock (more advanced, stock body, some modifications to mechanics allowed) * Late Model Class (professional, highly modified, fiberglass bodies)18 Vehicles across 3 classes: * Each vehicle has 5 paint schemes (a total of 90 paint schemes) * Players can choose the number they want on the car * When player's attract sponsorships the sponsor's logo will appear on * the vehicleResource Management (player's can spend their money for): * Purchasing new vehicles * Upgrades * Repairs * Entry fees * Tires and practice time on the track

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NASCAR 2000 Review

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(More customer reviews)I've played quite a few driving sim games and this one is the most realistic I've seen yet. While playing the game, I turned up the sound to full blast to get the full effect. It has a few quirks as usual though.
Pros: Graphics are much better than the old nascar games, the car actually handles exactly the way it was setup in the garage. You find your blood pressure rapidly increases while in the big races. All of the normal tracks are there, but in addition, they have added fantasy tracks that are sweet. (they wouldn't work in real life, but for game play, they work!) Cons: They could have added a few more voice files for the racing scenes. Listening to the tv broadcasters repeat over and over gets annoying. I wouldn't suggest to play this game without a stearing wheel, if you play on the keyboard or with a joystick, you won't be able to control the car around the other cars in the race. Another problem is when a race starts, you are dropped onto the track at about 50 MPH and if you dont get immediate control, you'll run right into the wall.
You'll definitly want a fast machine to run this game, because when all the graphics and sounds are on, it can be a bit jumpy. I wouldn't suggest purchasing this game unless you have atleast a P2 500 mghrz with lots of ram and a big video card! I must admit it is fun to head the wrong way on the track at full speed. Crashes are fun to watch!! This game allows you to drive crazy and not make your insurance premium go up!

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rFactor V. 1.255 Review

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(More customer reviews)I got this a few years ago and have been happy with it. This game is really the successor to the F1 Challenge series EA and ISI put out a while ago that is also heavily modded. I have F1 seasons and tracks from 79,88,91,05,06,07,08,09 as well as Champ Car 05-06, Indycar 94-95,08-09, GT cars, Mclaren F1 Challenge, Zonda Challenge,Historic Rally Cars Mod, F430 Challenge, and a lot of single cars for use in the all tracks and cars series.
You can use any track for any car you have, say using Indycars on F1 tracks or GT cars on Ovals. I've got I would say about 100 tracks from the modding sites as well as the series mentioned above for over 20GB's of data, so rFactor is really not about the stuff it comes with but the stuff you can get online that makes it the ONLY racing game you should have. You can get Formula Japan, GP2, and many other series cars and tracks. They are free to download and the details and graphics are amazing in most of them, the best I've seen are the CDTP F1 2006 and IDT Champcar and Indycar series. The GT ALL 3.96 comes with both new and old GT cars in a lot of paint jobs and configurations, including Porches, Mosler, Corvette, Viper, Saleen, Ferrari and any of the other GT1/2/LM/etc. classes you can think of.
There are hundreds of tracks to download and race from every corner of the world as well as fantasy tracks and cars. Like I said you can race any car on any track. Either they have self installers or you just copy and paste into the locations folder to install, the same goes for the cars.
This is really best for open wheel, touring cars, Stock cars and any other asphalt/circuit based racing, it's OK for dirt rally or trucks but those are best in the dedicated games like Collin Mcrae or Richard Burns. This game is fairly easy to adjust the difficulty and other settings once you play around with it. I'm no strict sim player and thankfully you can pretty much adjust it to whatever level you want.
This game also has multiple 3rd party plugins for realistic cameras, textures, data acquisition, wet tracks and almost anything else. You should go to [...], fileplanet or softpedia to get cars, tracks and plugins. So depending on your level of interest this game could replace your collection of separate games for separate racing types and be relevant for a long time to come, every race game fan should get this period.

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