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(And note that, only a few of these were the full 500-lap monsters of NASCAR reality, most of the time we'd select 10- or 20-percent of the real lap count to keep things moving along.) Even if the problem were just ourД«ad driving (despite some 25-years of avid video game-racing experience, we might add), we would be forced to call these game mechanics and driving physics 'unintuitive,' вЂ“ and we'd have to be feeling charitable with our adjectives to do so.ДЄs we alluded to above, the promising online racing isn't much better, dynamically, than in Career Mode.

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But the net result no matter what we did вЂ“ smarter and dumber AI, turning all of the driver assist setting all the way up and all the way down, changing our car setup ad nauseam вЂ“ was that we were rarely able to race without enduring 10, 15 or even more caution flags per race. Now, it could be that we're just so unskilled at the subtleties of NASCAR simulation that we were the root cause of all of the flags.

More laps being completed under yellow flag conditions than not. We either were the cause of a crash, the target of an aggressive maneuver that resulted in a crash or simply a witness to two or more AI-controlled cars crashing themselves. (You'd think that the start of the race would have the same effect, but the annoying yellow flags seemed far less common at the start of races.)Дuring these frequent restarts, we tried every possible option to keep the race flowing: holding our spot in the field, aggressively trying to pass even slowing down to let others by and secure some running room didn't help. That seems reasonable, until you understand that its far more common for this to happen during a yellow-flag restart, where the field is packed tightly together, than during any other part of the racing. NASCAR The Game, the digital marshals pull out the yellow caution flags, essentially when any one of the cars actually spins on the track. While bumping and scraping paint are all par for the course in We fell back into the pack fairly quickly, and then fell prey to the single worst part of the game. Here's why: Unlike Daytona, where we basically lead from start to finish, at Phoenix we fell back into the pack fairly quickly, and then fell prey to the single worst part of the game. We managed to get yet another pole position at Phoenix International Raceway before we were rudely and horribly brought back down to earth by the race that followed. Gentlemen, Stop Your Engines вЂ“ New NASCAR Title Is Not ImpressiveДЇeeling rather good about ourselves, we spent our Daytona winnings on a more powerful engine for our car, signed up a few new eager sponsors and got ready for the next round at Phoenix.

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