- #NASCAR GAMES FOR MAC OS X MOVIE#
- #NASCAR GAMES FOR MAC OS X DRIVER#
- #NASCAR GAMES FOR MAC OS X FULL#
If you've got the time, you can play every race at its true-world distance. To win, you'll need to master car setup, pit stop strategy, drafting tactics, bump-passing, and turning right as well as left (there are some road tracks). You need to setup, practice, qualify, and then race on each track, ideally to win the points championship.
#NASCAR GAMES FOR MAC OS X DRIVER#
The basic premise of the game is that you're a driver in the 2003 Nascar season. Nascar will even model a flipping car, which is what I was really trying to get to happen in the wreck at the end (but no luck). The clip starts on the pace lap, and ends a few turns later with a wreck that yours truly induced (on purpose) - I wanted to show some of the smoke, crash, and mark-on-track effects that are present in the game. You'll need QT7 for the H.264 version, but the MPEG4 one should play in QT6. I then scaled the resulting clip down to 720x450, and encoded two versions of it: a 20.2MB MPEG4 version and a 55.3MB H.264 version.
#NASCAR GAMES FOR MAC OS X MOVIE#
Partly as an excuse to play with QuickTime 7, I recorded a short (under two minute) demo movie using SnapzPro, and I did the capture at 1920x1200, too - this slowed the frame rate to somewhere around 40fps, although this is still very playable. At those settings, Nascar Racing is a very immersive experience - it takes up much of my field of view, and the shadows, reflections, cars, and sounds are all amazingly well done. Even at those settings, I would still get anywhere from 100 to 150 frames per second, depending on how many competitors' cars were visible at any given time. With my Dual 2.0 G5 and the X800XT card, I was able to turn basically all details to "high" or "max," and run at 1920x1200 on my 23" display. One advantage to running older games on a new video card is that you can get great frame rates with lots of eye candy enabled. Read on for more about the game, as well as movie with some in-game footage. The crashes in Nascar can also be quite spectacular. I really like the game's attention to detail, and the graphics, while a couple years old, still look quite good. Both are fun, but at the end of the day, Nascar's more fun for me because the tracks are familiar and the cars get to bump and bash each other regularly. Of the four, it's a close race (so to speak) for me between Total Immersion and Nascar for the best driving game title. I own all but Virtual Grand Prix (and I have a demo of that). I can think of four relatively easily: Nascar Racing, Total Immersion Racing, Ford Racing II, and Virtual Grand Prix 2. There aren't a ton of "serious" driving games for the Mac. Hence, this week's PotW is a relatively old game. During this revisit, I played a number of games that I haven't launched for quite a while, and had actually forgotten just how fun some of them were - Nascar Racing 2003 Season among them. I'll save the details on the video card's performance for the future write-up, but suffice it to say, I was very impressed. I'd fire each one up and put it through its paces with the new card, comparing the performance to that of my original card, an ATI 9800 Pro. So I was spending a lot of time the last week or so digging through my collection of games. Coincidentally, I've also got a new ATI X800XT video card in my machine right now - keep your eyes peeled for an upcoming review. Supporting online multiplayer races, you are never far from a race whether that is in a party with your friends or racing with other players from around the world.In looking at the Pick of the Week table for 2005, I noticed that I hadn't yet chosen a game for the list.
#NASCAR GAMES FOR MAC OS X FULL#
This puts you in the heat of the action as the green flag drops, while a full suite of driver assists make the game accessible to new racers.Įither dive straight into the action with Race Now, playing as your favorite official driver from the NASCAR Cup Series, or take on the immersive and engaging career mode as you build your reputation in the sport and battle your way toward the championship.Ī brand-new Paint Booth offers an unrivalled level of customization allowing you to create your own NASCAR Cup Series paint scheme complete with your own iconic race number. The handling of the car is a direct representation of how it feels to drive one of these incredible machines, complete with updated track packages that represent the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. With incredible graphics and immersive gameplay, NASCAR 21: Ignition brings a whole new level of authenticity and atmosphere to the NASCAR Cup Series.Ĭomplete with official drivers, teams and tracks from the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, the authentic presentation, including broadcast quality pre-race build up and post-race replays, takes you as close to the real thing as you can get. NASCAR 21: Ignition redefines the official video game of the world’s most popular stock car racing series. About This Game THE OFFICIAL NASCAR VIDEO GAME