Sierra Sports: NASCAR Legends

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Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00001SHNL
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,896 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
NASCAR Legends returns players to the racing season of 1970 by including many of the legendary cars, drivers, and racetracks from that 48-race season. Aspiring drivers race against such NASCAR icons as Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, and Bobby Allison. Sixteen accurately rendered tracks are offered; plan to race on the Darlington Raceway, Texas World Speedway, and Alabama International Motor Speedway, among others.

NASCAR Legends was made with hard-core motor purists in mind. Inside each prerace garage, drivers can tweak such car characteristics as tire pressure, suspension, gear ratios, and screw jacks. Gamers looking for an arcade racing game like Need for Speed need not apply; NASCAR Legends's rigorous dedication to statistics offers a complex, yet rewarding gaming experience. For optimum performance, use a Direct3D-based accelerator card to achieve crisp graphics and smooth frame rates, and a steering controller to master the tough turns. --Doug Radcliffe

Pros:

• Realistic driving model
• Faithful reproduction of famous cars and tracks
• Great force-feedback support

Con:

• Weak sound

Product Description
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Follow-up to my earlier review, June 11, 2001

By	T. Whigham (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've gotten some more seat time with this sim and it continues to impress me. I'm using CH Products Combatstick with CH rudder pedals and there's a switch on the pedals to alternate between using the pedals as rudder controls for flight sims and using them as brake/throttle for driving sims. Now that I'm using them properly, I'm really getting hooked on NASCAR Legends. I've painted my own car, written my own bio, built 2 different set-ups (speedway and short-track), and am getting the hang of manual shifting, but I still have to reduce the AI strength to 90% and the race lengths to 25% or 30% just to make it to the end. On my Dell 1.3 Ghz Pentium 4 machine, the graphics absolutely fly, which shouldn't be surprising as anyone with a Pentium 200Mhz 64 Mb RAM PC (or more) should have no problem running the sim well. Just remember to install the patch - during installation the exec will prompt you to go to the website - to take advantage of this sim at its best. If NASCAR 3 runs well on your computer, Legends will run well, too.

Tracks: Alabama Motor Speedway (now Talladega), Atlanta Int'l Raceway, Bowman Gray Stadium, Bristol Intern'l Speedway, Charlotte (now Lowe's) Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Greenville-Pickens Speedway, Martinsville Speedway, Michigan Speedway, N.C.-Rockingham Speedway, North Wilkesboro Speedway, Ontario Motor Speedway, Richmond Fairgrounds, Riverside International (no longer in existence), Texas World Speedway, and Thompson Speedway. Overall, a good mix of superspeedways and short-tracks with one road course.

4.0 out of 5 stars Still a great game, March 8, 2007

By	Andrew Lloyd Grigg "Andrew" (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

I just bought this game last week off of amazon.com. I've always played PS2 and PS console NASCAR games and I wanted to get something that would run on my crappy computer. Of course, NASCAR Legends works perfectly fine since it's from 1999. While the graphics are crappy today, the sound is great and the racing is alot of fun. Any NASCAR fan that wants to have fun needs to get this. I use my "PS2" syle PC controller for this game bc I can't afford a steering wheel.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game, October 19, 2001

By	Tom Christ (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This game has a lot of wonderfully recreated tracks. Michigan 30 years ago looked a whole lot different and it is displayed in this game. Also the cars handle different and pit stradgey comes into play a lot more. I have won many a races based just off of pit stradgey than fast cars. I think everyone that likes NASCAR should get this game.