NASCAR Arcade Rush Coming to Consoles, PC Later This Year - Hardcore Gamer

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The NASCAR license has been used in some arcade-influenced games before and even in a killer EA/SEGA co-created arcade racer over two decades ago, and now we’re getting a new arcade-style game from GameMill in the form of NASCAR Arcade Rush. GameMill largely deals with licensed properties and their titles are pretty enjoyable overall, and this is their biggest racing game yet by far. Their Street Outlaws games have done a fine job of recreating a drag race, while the Nickelodeon Kart Racers franchise delivers a lot of fun for that genre – especially the newer more feature-rich entries. They haven’t released a trailer, but we do have a healthy amount of information about what’s planned to be in the final game.

Arcade Rush brings together a mix of reality with licensed NASCAR tracks including Talladega Superspeedway, Daytona International Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Martinsville Speedway, and Homestead-Miami Speedway. The inclusion of Daytona is a fairly big deal for gaming since that track’s namesake led to Daytona USA from SEGA and anything with an arcade style and that name attached to it will always draw comparisons. While that may not be fair given that the actual speedway wasn’t used, anything with stock cars and arcade styling gets compared to Daytona for better or worse. Sega’s own post-Daytona games struggled under the weight of that classic, and Arcade Rush is aided by the passage of time and Daytona not being able to be bought now – although it is playable on modern-day Xbox hardware if you bought it on the Xbox 360.

The blend of real-world locales will extend into the game featuring 75 years of NASCAR vehicles in a celebration of the brand’s 75th anniversary. Players will also be able to customize paintjobs