NASCAR 25

Great for the Nascar itch or feeling on a random day especially if you have a racing wheel. but i think Nascar heat 5 was way better.

"Hot Garbage" plain and simple. I would not recommend purchasing this game.

Loveee itttt can’t wait for 26

I am an avid nascar fan for over 20 years now. Watching the sport in the early 2000s prime and being addicted since. Played almost every single nascar game there is and love racing. My favorite nascar game is Nascar 15 hands the best all around. Heat 4 & 5 were fun, but lacked real driving and handling. This game looks amazing and has a great intro and soundtrack, but its so underwhelming for any modern racing standards. The basic controls immediately feel bland and sluggish, even with some tuning it's just boring and feels weird. I bought the standard edition and honestly surprised how many drivers didn't have more than 1 paint scheme. My biggest disappointment has to be the driving feeling, like its the foundation of any racing game. It has no feeling in it like when you drive a corner to hard or maybe need to blip the throttle to get that perfect turn and keep speed. I feel no indication that the car is sliding or anything, it's just let of gas and lose a ton of speed. Heat had the weird wobble effect when turning and I could at least feel the car. Forza Motorsport while not perfect gives a way better feeling of turning and throttle control to get all that you can out of a car. I understand a lot of people will say just use a wheel and go play iracing, I get that and have a wheel, but its so much simpler to come home for work and not have to pull a whole setup out just to play a racing game. Many games have great driving with controllers and its just a laziness, unwillingness or down right not knowing how, by these creators to make it.

I really like the game, however there are FUNDAMENTAL problems that lead me to have to post a negative review. First and foremost, ROAD COURSE TRACK LIMITS. Seriously, shame on iRacing for even launching the game without having proper track limits on Watkins glen and Cota. There should be NONE on certain corners, if you watch real nascar you can go farrrr off track, riding the wall off turn 1 Walkins glen. Yet when you take that line you get the "Corner cut stop and go" BS. Thats not how it is in real racing! It completely ruins the line and essentially makes these tracks unplayable as you cant run the actual racing line. To add insult to injury, Ai are allowed to take these corners beyond what the player is allowed to! MAKE AN OPTION TO AT LEAST DISABLE TRACK LIMITS FOR ROAD COURSES. And on that note, the "stop and go" penalties?!? WTF. In no racing series would they have you come to a complete stop on an active race track, ITS DONE ON PIT ROAD. Having a drive thru penalty for pit road would be more appropriate for speedway racing. I really enjoy the game, but these are game breaking features that really ruin it. Its like they gave a developer a list of what to include without having ever watched a nascar race to see how to implement them in the right way. If we could at least disable track limits for certain tracks (or fix it and make them correct) that would make the quality of this game much better and MORE REALISTIC. How they havent fixed this problem after 6 months from release is beyond me. Other than the road course problem, the game is great. Career mode is plentiful and the tracks and series are done really well. If they fixed the issues with track limits and penalties this would be a 10/10 game. It just isnt that way right now.

It’s pretty clear that this is a lazy port of a console game. It wasn’t adapted for PC use whatsoever. The graphics are visually terrible, even at the highest setting. I hope that NASCAR 26 isn’t the same.