NASCAR Racing 2002 Season
The racing game NASCAR Racing 2002 Season or NR2002 for short, was the successor to the immensely popular NASCAR Racing 4 and the immediate precursor to the even more popular NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. This…
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season is a racing developed by Papyrus Design Group, released 14 February 2002 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What NASCAR Racing 2002 Season is
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season is a racing game developed by Papyrus Design Group and released in 2002. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The racing game NASCAR Racing 2002 Season or NR2002 for short, was the successor to the immensely popular NASCAR Racing 4 and the immediate precursor to the even more popular NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. This sim provided much more accurate car models and a vastly improved physics engine. The box on the game prominently featured new NASCAR star Kevin Harvick in the Goodwrench #29 car, a driver missing from NASCAR 4 as the game was released very shortly before the death of Dale Earnhardt. Also featured on the cover; Terry Labonte in the Kellogg's #5 car, Dale Jarrett in the UPS #88 car, (in the background) Jeff Burton in the Citgo #99 car, Ward Burton in the Caterpillar Inc. #22 car and Ken…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the NASCAR series
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season is the 22nd of 52 entries we hold in the NASCAR series. The next entry was NASCAR Thunder 2003 in 2002. Its critic score of 88 is 16 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is NASCAR Racing 2003 Season at 100.
How it was received
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season launched on 14 February 2002, within three weeks of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Jet Set Radio Future, RalliSport Challenge and Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Jet Set Radio Future, RalliSport Challenge, Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny.
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