Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Nascar Racing 4

For all you fellas out there gettin geared up for the sequel N4 from Papyrus be warned. This aint your typical sim. Welcome to big time autoracing. Ive been asked many times how close these games come to real life. N4 is all over it. My first wakeup call while playing the game was the effects changes to the setup had on my car. Someone did there homework here. You will experience much more body roll than in the past games of the Nascar series. Something else we havent seen in the past is the real to life at times aggrivating pull to the left caster setting. Yes, this is the way our cars drive every week. It is caused by the frontend settings, mainly caster. Closing the caster split will reduce this effect but tighten the car up on entrance of the corner. Everything in the game seems to have been beefed up, from the setup screen to the draft effects. With the two tracks in the demo, we can see some that some gains have been made on realism and geometry. Other than some enriched eyecandy, Dover and Michigan arent going to look much different to you than before. Why fix it if it aint broke. The enhanced experience you will enjoy is going to be due mostly to the fact that the car drives like a real 3400 pound stock car, unforgiving at every inch of the track. The default setups leave little to get pumped up about, but after some tuning you will get more stable and comfortable. Untill then you will find yourself every which way but straight. With all things considered, this is the sim we have been waiting for.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.



NASCAR RACING 4 VS. REAL LIFE RACING
For all you fellas out there gettin geared up for the sequel N4 from Papyrus be warned. This aint your typical sim. Welcome to big time autoracing. Ive been asked many times how close these games come to real life. N4 is all over it. My first wakeup call while playing the game was the effects changes to the setup had on my car. Someone did there homework here. You will experience much more body roll than in the past games of the Nascar series. Something else we havent seen in the past is the real to life at times aggrivating pull to the left caster setting. Yes, this is the way our cars drive every week. It is caused by the frontend settings, mainly caster. Closing the caster split will reduce this effect but tighten the car up on entrance of the corner. Everything in the game seems to have been beefed up, from the setup screen to the draft effects. With the two tracks in the demo, we can see some that some gains have been made on realism and geometry. Other than some enriched eyecandy, Dover and Michigan arent going to look much different to you than before. Why fix it if it aint broke. The enhanced experience you will enjoy is going to be due mostly to the fact that the car drives like a real 3400 pound stock car, unforgiving at every inch of the track. The default setups leave little to get pumped up about, but after some tuning you will get more stable and comfortable. Untill then you will find yourself every which way but straight. With all things considered, this is the sim we have been waiting for. Dale Earnhardt Jr.