NASCAR coming to Wii, Mario Kart style

From the "EA trying to copy Nintendo" files, comes a pinewood derby style NASCAR game with "24 track layouts" -- launching February on Wii.

It's sorta like Mario Kart... plus tail gating

It's sorta like Mario Kart... plus tail gating

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced today that NASCAR(r) Kart Racing, the first and only NASCAR racing title available for the Wii(tm), will ship to retailers in North America on February 10, 2009, just in time for the Daytona 500 and the official start of the 2009 NASCAR season. Designed exclusively for the Wii, NASCAR Kart Racing enables players to grab the steering wheel as a famed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver and speed through treacherous landscapes, wind around rocky cliffs, jump rivers and dodge falling boulders. Up to four players can go head-to-head, via split screen, in a mad dash to the checkered flag, making NASCAR Kart Racing an ideal game to play with family and friends.

Enjoy the thrill of racing as three-time consecutive Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson or choose from 13 additional NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers. Players can also compete as one of 10 original animated characters. Each driver has personal attributes that will determine how the kart will perform on a course, so strategy is key when choosing a driver and a teammate. Teams that work together win championships!

Licensed NASCAR Drivers:

    * Jeff Burton
    * Kyle Busch
    * Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
    * Carl Edwards
    * Jeff Gordon
    * Denny Hamlin
    * Kevin Harvick
    * Jimmie Johnson
    * Kasey Kahne
    * Matt Kenseth
    * Elliot Sadler
    * Tony Stewart
    * *Two Unlockable Mystery Drivers*

The courses in NASCAR Kart Racing feature a vast range of exhilarating terrain. Experience 24 entertaining race layouts that wrap through deserts, freeways, back roads, canyons, junkyards and more. Drivers will also push the pedal to the metal in areas surrounding four popular NASCAR tracks: Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway, Dover International Speedway and Bristol Motor Speedway. Each track in NASCAR Kart Racing can be reversed to provide two unique racing experiences.

Your journey to become a champion in NASCAR Kart Racing begins by competing in 13 series against featured drivers from different racing backgrounds. Defeat the rivals of each series to unlock new courses, drivers, game modes and the next series. Beat all of the events at a track and you will receive a track sponsorship complete with billboards featuring your driver's face-an obvious statement to your family and friends that you are the top competitor. Race throughout the series, to earn the championship title that affords stunning trophies and the glory of being recognized as the ultimate NASCAR driver!

NASCAR Kart Racing, developed exclusively for the Wii(tm), will ship to retailers on February 10, 2009. The game has been rated E for Everyone by the ESRB with a descriptor for "Cartoon Mischief". For more information, please visit www.easports.com/kartracing. For assets, please visit www.info.ea.com.

See also: Mario Kart Wii

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Tillerized

Stop This!!!!! What ever rep EA Sports has left these All-Play games are killing. EA Sports is a sports sim brand, not casual games.

eday_2010

This is stupid. Anyone with a Wii who like racing already has Mario Kart. I'm not going to buy this since I already own Mario Kart and it's excellent. This game won't come close to being as good. There is absolutely no reasons whatsoever why they couldn't release a proper Redneck Roundy Round game on the Wii. It's stupid moves like this from third party developers/publishers (and Wii Music) that make the Wii look bad to people who think they are so-called "hardcore gamers". I hope to hell EA loses a ton of money from this.

siavm

Why didn't they just make a regular one. They could have at least sold that. But this is just another shovelware game. Who exactly are targeting this to, kids. If so they should have just stuck with the original game since it is rated E for everyone.

AANTHUNDER

eday_2010 wrote:

This is stupid. Anyone with a Wii who like racing already has Mario Kart. I'm not going to buy this since I already own Mario Kart and it's excellent. This game won't come close to being as good. There is absolutely no reasons whatsoever why they couldn't release a proper Redneck Roundy Round game on the Wii. It's stupid moves like this from third party developers/publishers (and Wii Music) that make the Wii look bad to people who think they are so-called "hardcore gamers". I hope to hell EA loses a ton of money from this.

I never knew how much a following NASCAR had until I was in Vegas this year. I had the misfortune of being in Vegas during the NASCAR races. There were an estimated 1.5 million people there for the races! Now EA knows this is big business so why not make the watered down version the kids can enjoy. They are going to have millions in sales because even if you don't want to believe it, the core audience of the wii is children.

Toneman

24 tracks layout? What are they, 24 different oval tracks? NASCAR sucks... oooh look at me... turning left again. And without red shells, this game will SUCK!

eday_2010

AANTHUNDER wrote:

I never knew how much a following NASCAR had until I was in Vegas this year. I had the misfortune of being in Vegas during the NASCAR races. There were an estimated 1.5 million people there for the races! Now EA knows this is big business so why not make the watered down version the kids can enjoy.

I agree, and that would be fine IF they would release a proper NASCAR game, or include this kart racing stuff in a proper NASCAR racing game. This doesn't really need to be a stand-alone game, especially with no proper NASCAR alternative. A game like this reminds me of Sega releasing Virtua Fighter Kids on the Saturn; it was something that could have been included in one of the proper VF games and didn't need to be a stand-alone.

shotgunzzzz

Toneman wrote:

24 tracks layout? What are they, 24 different oval tracks? NASCAR sucks... oooh look at me... turning left again. And without red shells, this game will SUCK!

LOL, But I Agree

donkeykong57

Wow, just wow. I do regret selling my Wii but games like this are the ones I avoided. I know the Wii is inferior in terms of graphics and whatnot, but come on EA. People of all ages can enjoy the standard NASCAR sim, but not everyone is going to have fun with this. You're isolating a lot of people.

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