Indianapolis 500 Legends

by Destineer

Product Features

• Race at terrifying speeds in legendary vehicles
• Draft, dodge and strategically maneuver through packs of highly tuned vehicles
• Experience open-cockpit racing of legendary eras

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000SH3XBS
• Item Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 19, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,338 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #15 in Video Games > Wii > Racing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Careen around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a hand-built 1960s speed machine that hits speeds of nearly 180 mph and rides only 7 inches off the ground. Survive a moving minefield of crashes, spinning cars, rolling tires, oil slicks and 32 rivals competing for the perfect racing line. Set from 1961-1971, a period of loose rules and ever-faster cars, Indianapolis 500 Legends lets players experience the traditions, rivalries, terrifying speeds and jaw-dropping maneuvers of the Brickyard as they take on the arcade-style gameplay

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Does justice to racing legends and the Wii, December 20, 2007

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Dan Moreland - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Indianapolis 500 Legends (Video Game)

The missions are very addictive. High intensity racing made even more fun with using the Wii remote as the steering wheel, controls very responsive, and the AI is VERY good, I was cursing out the Clown Prince within 40 minutes of picking it up.

Graphics a bit challenging, but overcome by gameplay. The old cars are GREAT, and the crashes can be downright FRIGHTENING AND EERIE, flaming infernos and all just like you saw in those old Indy race films (where some drivers died). The drafting and slingshotting is intense.

The Pit Challenges are nothing more than a point and turn exercises, but at least its something different in a racing game.

A very different game packaged with a racing history lesson. Does justice to the Cathedral of Speed, any Wii owner who is a race fan MUST have this game in their collection just for the history alone, the excellent gameplay is just icing on the cake.

GET IT. This is a very good Wii game.

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This was almost the best racing game I'd ever played, but ..., March 4, 2008

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N. Powell "pbnate" (Logan, IA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Indianapolis 500 Legends (Video Game)

I really enjoyed playing this game. The track looks great ... the cars are realistic and fun ... the AI is great to play against. Then I played it in multiplayer mode.
When you get to play this in two-player mode, the graphics start to drag ... big time. My friend and I felt like we were out to a Sunday afternoon drive. I wish the developers would have put more time into making sure that this game plays well at all levels. Buy this game, but don't get it for multiplayer racing. That part sucks.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of best racing games for Wii, December 29, 2007

By 

Patterson Edward "Wsublues" (Pullman, Washingtion) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Indianapolis 500 Legends (Video Game)

Until now the only racing game that was fun and used the wii controls well was excite truck. This game uses the controls in the same way, holding the remote sideways and steering like a steering wheel.

Its sensitive to movement and the game is both easy to learn but challenging to be good, which is a balance that is hard to achieve without becoming frustrating.

The game is only able to support 2 players, and I wish it would support 4 but that's ok. The missions are fun and it's cool that you get to race as some of the legends and in some of the same situations that the Indianapolis 500 is famous for. For Instance if you pick say 1961, you pick a driver and one of the missions may be the same thing that drive faced that year: you're in third with three laps to go - beast your rivals. Things like this. The track and cars adapt to the years very accurately. I heard they scanned photos of the track and cars from each year and worked very diligently to make the game look real...it shows.

If you like racing games this is fun. It's not like Mario kart or such where anyone can have fun with powerups and such. This game relays on you actually racing like a real racer of the times. You need to find the groove, use drafting, slingshots and braking to win.

It's very well done, simple but complex, and cool. I can easily see myself, 25 and my dad 54 playing this game together and having a blast. That's the great thing about the wii and the great thing about this game. Car and racing enthusiast will love it.