Review: Nascar Heat 5 (Steam)
NASCAR Heat 5 challenges you to become the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion. Features all the official teams, drivers and cars from the three NASCAR National Series as well as the Xtreme Dirt Tour, racing on 39 authentic tracks.
Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 15263mb Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Controller support.
- Steering wheel support.
- Four difficulties-casual, normal, hard, and expert.
- Victory anthem-choose your right own in-game track to play in both on and offline modes.
- Race modes-(like arcade mode) test session, challenges, championship, and split-screen.
- In-depth character creator.
- Four series-Nascar Cup series, Xfinity series, Gander truck series, and Xtreme dirt tour.
- Quick race mode-pick a series, driver, and track.
- Career-own settings like Assists, AI difficulties, and damage model.
- Two careers choices-full start from scratch or custom start where you pick the series to start in.
- 3 race sessions- practice, qualify, and race. You can skip between them.
- Full damage model.
- In career, you earn fans and cash based on performances. You work your way through the series.
- Nine driving views including in-car and far.
- Teams-join official ones or create your own.
- Contract incentives-choose 1 of 3 incentives for bonus rewards.
- 40 player online races.
- Can tune and setup card to your likings.
Cons:
- A lot of menu clicking.
- No real tutorial.
- A lot of loading screens.
- Little online activity.
- Same game as last year minus a few additions but nothing of note.
- No overall presentation and the hosts of races etc are just text-based.
- No commentary.
