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Round 21 Date: October 27-29 Catch the race on: ESPN, ESPN Deportes, Univision, F1 TV Pro
Nicole Cooper
January 13, 2023
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Round 21 Date: October 27-29 Catch the race on: ESPN, ESPN Deportes, Univision, F1 TV Pro
Playoffs Location: Martinsville Speedway Date: Saturday, Oct. 28th Time: 3:30 PM ET Catch the race on: USA, MRN, SiriusXM, NBC Sports
Playoffs: Championship 4 Location: Phoenix Raceway Date: Friday, Nov. 3rd Time: 10:00 PM ET Catch the race on: FS1, MRN, SiriusXM
Playoffs Location: Homestead-Miami Speedway Date: Sunday, Oct. 22nd Time: 2:30 PM ET Catch the race on: NBC, MRN, SiriusXM, NBC Sports
Playoffs Location: Homestead-Miami Speedway Date: Saturday, Oct. 21st Time: 3:00 PM ET Catch the race on: NBC, MRN, SiriusXM, NBC Sports
NASCAR Arcade Rush is the next licensed NASCAR video game that will be published by GameMill Entertainment. The game will include a few licensed tracks, but, for now, no licensed drivers. It will be interesting to see what this game becomes as it will obviously be an arcade racer. Will it be more like NASCAR Unleashed/NASCAR Rumble, or will there be more elements of NASCAR Kart Racing? Either way, it is a new NASCAR video game, regardless of it being an arcade game.
There was not a replacement to NASCAR 21: Ignition in 2022, but there was NASCAR Rivals on the Nintendo Switch. Like NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition is NASCAR Heat 5 on the Nintendo Switch, NASCAR Rivals is NASCAR 21: Ignition on the Nintendo Switch. It gives NASCAR games to Nintendo Switch users, but the lack of a true NASCAR 21: Ignition replacement was still glaring on Motorsport Games.
Motorsport Games planned on releasing a separate NASCAR game on the Nintendo Switch in 2022, so they released NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+ exclusively on the Nintendo Switch. It’s basically NASCAR Heat 5 on the Nintendo Switch, and it’s nothing to write home about. With it being on less powerful hardware, it deals with many of the cut corners as the Nintendo Wii versions of the Eutechnyx NASCAR games did.
Where to start with this game. Many people were excited to see NASCAR gaming go to a big budget developer like Motorsport Games. The game would be developed on the powerful Unreal Engine, and people were excited to see what Motorsport Games had.
The game released, and it was awful. It was simply unfinished with a ridiculous amount of game breaking glitches at most tracks. There were even some strange settings problems on the track as well including not being able to turn off steering assist.
The way the AI went about pit strategy was completely broken. Caution flags were completely broken. Whenever a patch was made, it seemed there was another issue.
Unfortunately, this was the last main line console NASCAR game to be released as of this writing. NASCAR gaming has probably never hit a lower low than this game, and there is no timetable for when another NASCAR game will be released. Even though there was some content that was put out following this game.
