NASCAR Cometh
To the PSP anyway.
Published: September 6, 2006
EA hasn't been shy about supporting the PSP. Releases from all three major divisions of the mega-publisher -- EA Games, EA Sports and EA Sports BIG, their "extreem" publishing wing -- have all had major releases hit Sony's little handheld. But there's one series that until now hadn't seen the light of day on the system: NASCAR.
But those days are over, as NASCAR 07 has officially rolled onto the PSP. If there's a genre that there's been no shortage of entries into on the little handheld, it's definitely been the racer, but EA and their Madden development house EA Tiburon clearly don't see a problem with this. And hey, in their defense, there aren't any other NASCAR racers out there.
The PSP version is no hand-me-down portable slouch, either. A full field of 43 other racers, slider-based car adjustments, racing school courses taught by Kenny Wallace, an almost RPG-like progression system for racers, screen blurs and camera shakes and an Adrenaline Meter that builds by avoiding accidents have all been crammed into the less than two gig space of Sony's tiny little Universal Media Disc.
Not bad, eh? The game should be in stores as you read this (or at the very latest, tomorrow), and now you're probably more educated about it than the local Wal-Mart employee. Go show 'em whatcha know!
But those days are over, as NASCAR 07 has officially rolled onto the PSP. If there's a genre that there's been no shortage of entries into on the little handheld, it's definitely been the racer, but EA and their Madden development house EA Tiburon clearly don't see a problem with this. And hey, in their defense, there aren't any other NASCAR racers out there.
The PSP version is no hand-me-down portable slouch, either. A full field of 43 other racers, slider-based car adjustments, racing school courses taught by Kenny Wallace, an almost RPG-like progression system for racers, screen blurs and camera shakes and an Adrenaline Meter that builds by avoiding accidents have all been crammed into the less than two gig space of Sony's tiny little Universal Media Disc.
Not bad, eh? The game should be in stores as you read this (or at the very latest, tomorrow), and now you're probably more educated about it than the local Wal-Mart employee. Go show 'em whatcha know!
