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System:
Playstation 4
Publisher:
Dusenberry Martin Racing
Developer:
Dusenberry Martin Racing
UPC: 869769000115

Released: 9-13-16
Players: 1-40
Online: 2-40
Offline: 1
ESRB: E
Trophies: 54
1200 points
PSN Price:
0.00

Game Genre:
Racing
Game Perspective:
1st-person
Genre Non-Sport:
Automobile

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NASCAR Heat Evolution (PS4) - Playstation 4

NASCAR Heat Evolution is a Racing game developed by Dusenberry Martin Racing and published by Dusenberry Martin Racing in 2016 for the Playstation 4.

NASCAR Heat Evolution

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Rating: 6 (1 votes)

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NASCAR Heat Evolution Review by: legacyme3 - 6/10

Are You Ready for the HEAT?
NASCAR HEAT Evolution was one of the games I was looking forward to most, this year. As a child, one of my favorite games was NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona. Dirt to Daytona was marvelous, because it took a basic, simple concept, and interesting, solid gameplay (amazing, considering it was just driving in ovals), and a deep front end for gear heads, and made a hugely successful game.

Since Dirt to Daytona (which was released in 2002), not one game has caught my eye. Coincidentally, Monster Games stopped working on the NASCAR games after Dirt to Daytona. Since 2002, EA and Eutechnyx were the two major developers of the NASCAR video games, and the lack of quality control showed. When games were playable (not all the time, with these two companies) it was boring, and good concepts were ruined by a low level of play.

So when Monster Games was brought back, miraculously for the first time in 14 years to develop a NASCAR game, I was ready to celebrate in victory lane. The developers of three of the best NASCAR games were back.

Now, it's their first time developing a NASCAR game in some time, so it's important to go in with lowered expectations. Still...

Graphics - 7

First off, this game looks fantastic. Lighting is decent, the cars look more or less as they should, but let's be honest here. This game should look much better, given how contained the area of graphical dependence is. While there are little details on the inner part of the track, the stadiums themselves and the tracks do not scream "next generation" to me.

It looks largely the same to me as the previous NASCAR games, and the "damage" done to your car looks highly unrealistic. We never really see many places where the game tries to challenge itself graphically, and why would it? It's NASCAR.

Sound - 8

I enjoy the musical selection you have on the menu, but that's not why I'm giving this game a score like this.

In addition to sounding as close to a race-car track as it can without being super loud, and destroying your ear-drums (seriously, this is one aspect I hope is never implemented in NASCAR games), the spotter calling things out, relatively properly, are a big deal to me. When it comes to sound, it's not just about sounding good or pleasant. It's about sounding right. If it means hearing a slightly nasally voice telling you to go low to avoid a three wide situation, then I'll take it.

Addictiveness - 6

Here is where the first negative is going to have to go. For reference, I have played this game for roughly 20 hours. I have played through most of my first season in the Sprint Cup (I'll get to why that's disappointing in the depth section), I've tested out both styles of play (simulation and arcade), and I've done a few quick races of varying lengths (from short length to longest/max length).

The game just isn't terribly fun. When compared to the heyday of NASCAR games back in the late 90's/early 2000's, there's a stark contrast between the two. Racing in either career, season, or race now mode, just isn't very fun. It is truer to life, and it is better than the last few games, but something the earlier HEAT games and Dirt to Daytona had are missing sorely. The heart.

While I am not a huge NASCAR fan, I know what a NASCAR game is supposed to feel like, and this feels more like a solid first step into something better, hopefully.

Depth - 3

Once you have raced one season, you've more or less raced them all. Having seen what lays beyond year 1 of Career mode, I've lost interest in seeing my own through, which is why you are getting this review now.

In short, this game just doesn't offer anything to keep you playing. There are basically four modes. There's Race Now (where you just pick a driver, a course, and go), Season mode (where you pick a driver, and race the entire schedule), Career mode (the main mode anybody who buys this game will play), and Challenges (which some people will never even touch).

Of those four modes, the only one that offers any sort of replay value is Career mode, just due to how long it will take for you to get "good". See, in Career mode, you start with nothing, at the very bottom. Even on easy difficulties, if you haven't played NASCAR games, or understanding racing in general, you will do poorly. Your car is underpowered, and goes slower no matter what you do (A fact, not a product of rubber banding), and even if you manage to gain on someone, they manage to find a burst of speed (which is rubber banding, and very disappointing).

Here in lies the challenge of NASCAR HEAT Evolution. It stops being about improving your race style, and trying to find ways to beat the rubber band, when you have an underpowered car. In my first season, I did end up winning a race, but it was at a road course that the CPU clearly hadn't been optimized for. I was able to take advantage of holes in their programming to win a race when I shouldn't have finished top 20 (I had finished in the top 20 in about half of my races in my first season).

When a game hides its depth behind grinding (which you have to do) in order to make you utilize its systems, it fails as a game. For you to be a front runner, and contending for a Sprint Cup title, you likely have to wait for your second or third season, and pray to god that the minimal improvements you could make will get you to the top.

Additionally, I was disappointed by something I shouldn't have been disappointed by. In NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona, there were 4 levels of racing. The Dodge Weekly Racing Series, Featherlite Modified Tour, Craftsman Truck Series, and the Winston Cup Series. These four levels of racing were all really well fleshed out. You could tell when you were driving a stock car on a dirt track. You could tell when a tire blew on your flimsy Featherlite. You could tell when another truck hit or bumped you in the Truck series, and while getting to the top level, the level everyone who bought the game cared about, the Winston Cup Series, it wasn't a slog, it wasn't boring. It represented actual challenge, and winning and losing didn't feel arbitrary.

In HEAT Evolution, there's only one level, and they make that one level more frustrating to slog through than something they did effortlessly 12 years ago. I put this on it being their first attempt in over a decade, but their next game has to be better in this respect.

Story - N/A

This game doesn't have any real story, besides what you make for yourself, which is what I recommend anyway. It makes the slog less painful.

Difficulty - 5

The game, on arcade controls is frustrating at times, but not unplayable. It is very fun when it works, and even when it doesn't, you understand what went wrong, and learn from it.

Simulation on the other hand, is an abortion if you are not in the slightest bit aware of how stock car racing works. If you try to be aggressive and bump people around, you will spin out. If you do not make turns well, you will spin out. If you so much as sneeze while holding your controller, you will spin out.

Some people will love simulation, because it captures the experience in a way Arcade just cannot. Some people, however, and by some, I mean most, have no clue how stock cars work, and will crash, get frustrated, and leave the game forever. Do yourself a favor and don't touch simulation until you have mastered arcade mode.

Additionally, fuck rubber banding.

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With no story to speak of, this becomes difficult. Story is generally 25% of my grade. With no story, I must adjust.

For this review, and this review only (unless I play another game with no story), I will take the 25% offered by story, and divide it into what is most important for games like this. This means 10% going to Depth, 10% to addictiveness, and 5% to sound.
GRADING FOR NASCAR HEAT EVOLUTION
Graphics - 10% (10% of 7 is .7)
Sound - 15% (15% of 8 is 1.2)
Addictiveness - 45% (45% of 6 is 2.7)
Depth - 30% (30% of 3 is .9)
Story - 25% (25% of N/A is N/A)
Difficulty - 0% (0% of 5 is 0)
Total - 5.5

However, with this being the first game they've developed in this series in 12 years, I'm going to be lax, and give bonus points, for a lack of glitches. So add .5 to the overall score for...

Overall - 6.0

A good first try in 12 years by Monster Games. I'm hoping the next game is much better. Primarily, they need to give you a reason to want to play more than a single season of Career mode, or add more challenges, and make that a key part of the game.




  Graphics 7   Sound 8   Addictive 6   Depth 3   Difficulty 5

NASCAR Heat Evolution Game Description

For the first time on PlayStation 4, race as your favorite NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers across all 23 licensed NASCAR tracks in stunning HD with incredibly detailed environments.

Get ready for the most fun you’ve had with a NASCAR game in years! Whether you’re a casual racer or die-hard sim fan, NASCAR Heat Evolution will adjust to your skill level with a brand new AI and Speed Rating system that applies the right amount of challenge for you.

In addition to quick play races you can build your own team from the ground up, and race your way to the Sprint Cup Championship in Career mode. Plus, Championship mode allows you to compete in modified NASCAR season schedules, including the option to jump straight into the final 10 races of NASCAR’s Chase for the Cup playoff. Plus, you asked for them and we listened… Challenges are back! Relive or rewrite this season’s most memorable moments as the drivers who lived them.

NASCAR Heat Evolution Reviews

Overall 6    Graphics 7    Sound 8    Addictive 6    Depth 3    Difficulty 5


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Are You Ready for the HEAT?   legacyme3
NASCAR HEAT Evolution was one of the games I was looking forward to most, this year. As a child, one...
  Graphics 7   Sound 8   Addictive 6   Depth 3   Difficulty 5

      Review Rating: 3/5     Submitted: 10-25-16     Review Replies: 0

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