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The game doesn't ship until November, but it's already playing incredibly smooth. What made me most excited, though, was the gameplay. "Inside Line" makes it feel like you're driving a race car. Says Martin: “While the last NASCAR game was a bare-bones, price of entry-type game, this is going to be what a 21st century NASCAR game should look and play like, with all the polish and bells and whistles, not to mention some surprises along the way.” Gone is the TV-style presentation of last year's game. Eutechnyx doesn’t want to elaborate at the moment, with Martin only saying the feature is something he has always wanted to see in a NASCAR game, and he’s excited to finally see it in “Inside Line.” You might have seen the smoke, but now the replay will show you the collision.”Īside from crashes, Martin also promises his new game will feature a much more robust online offering, including a set of challenges based off the real NASCAR season. Now you’ll see a caution flag, and then you’ll watch a replay of something that happened around you. “In past games, if there were crashes, it was usually user controlled. “One thing we wanted to add this year were computer-controlled cars causing crashes,” Eutechnyx’s Ed Martin says as he watches me play the game for the first time. When the caution flag is waved, the replay is instantly shown, highlighting just how close I came to being taken out of the race, then showing Patrick’s frightening flip that caused another 12 cars to wreck in a chain reaction of carnage and chaos.īut the crazy crashes are just part of the fun of Activision’s “NASCAR The Game: Inside Line,” as developer Eutechnyx went to great lengths to capture everything fans love about the sport, from the fiery wrecks to the skill and precision it takes to roll three- or four-wide at Talladega. As her car ricochets back toward me, I hit the gas and narrowly escape, with her car then flying back into the field where her ride is T-boned by Joey Logano, causing her car to roll and flip in a scene that’s both spectacular and scary. Next thing I know, Patrick hits me from behind, again, spinning me sideways into the Daytona grass, but as I spin her car is sent into the infield wall. She has been bumping my car from behind for the past two laps, aggressively trying to pass me on every straightaway, and has almost caused me to wreck for the past few minutes of my heart-pounding first race. Danica Patrick is getting on my last nerve.