NASCAR® Manager

The game itself could be great, but the developer is lazy. For starters,the developer knows nothing about racing. Repeatedly, I have communicated with them about the driver skill setup that makes no sense, the broken AI bot drivers and the rival matchmaking. Its one excuse after the next and nothing changes. Every update released is around them making money off of you. The weekly tournament is a joke, don’t waste your time. Most players don’t know, but they don’t have enough people playing the game so you think you’re up against a real driver, but you’re not. The matchmaking is so bad you’re going to race against someone who is vastly superior or incredibly inferior. Matchmaking should not be this difficult, but the developers are clearly smoking more weed than they are actually thinking through simple issues. Speaking of issues, don’t waste your money on any upgrades. The value isn’t there and the NASCAR pass has trash rewards. Speaking of trash rewards, if you buy any of the crates you can expect 75% to be useless. I have never seen a game that had so much potential to be great but the developer was to lazy and greedy to make the necessary changes for the user.

Update: Developer’s response that they cannot keep the connection to their server if the app is backgrounded is not entirely true. You can definitely handle background events in the app more gracefully, they just haven’t coded it that way. Original: I was qualifying for an event race (which is simulated) when I received an urgent text I had to respond to, i quickly opened the conversation and responded and was back in the game, RACE FORFEITURE! Are you kidding me?! So now that I have a 3 score in that race whats the point of playing out the remaining races? There is no point. Something the dev team has to work on is that when my car is in Drive Hard mode, people behind me that aren’t in that mode shouldn’t be passing me, (this is with fresh tires), just so that I can pass them back and then put 4 secs in between them. This can screw up an entire race if the computer controlled racer is a defender and my racer has poor overtaking. Drafting should be considered in the game, it seems to be completely ignored. The race forfeiting I experienced has persuaded me this game is no longer for me, and I will be deleting the game, hopefully others don’t experience the same frustration.

What a game, super fun to play, online so you can clan up with your friends, and you get to play with other managers of NASCAR teams. Graphics are 4 stars, could be more detail, but have the base well done. Game Play is 5 stars, super good game play. Customization is lacking at only 2 stars. You can’t really do anything to change the color of your car or even the number, I would also like to be able to change the name of the drivers or at least their initials. Bots are a 4 star. The only downside is that they run into you a little too much, but easy fix. Finally strategy, this is a complete strategy game, so if you enjoy thinking this game is for you. The best strat for beginners is 1 st time you get a lot notification, do fuel and tires, and then the next, also the last time you get the lit notification, just do fuel. That is how I ranked up out of the 1st level. This is a very fun game and can’t wait for it to get even bigger!