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Ratbag Blows the competition away with New Sprint Car Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: August 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This new game looks to be one of the best auto racing sims forthe PC around with super graphics and fast paced action like you were actully behind the wheel of a sprint car sliding sideways and if you happen to roll the car your in for a ride and the tracks are all so real such as KNOXVILLE,Iowa where the Amoco Knoxville Sprint Car Nationals are held in August and the game also has the famed Eldora Speedway in Ohio and 20+ other great tracks to try your skills at...

A good game...but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm about as hardcore sprint car fan as they come, being from Knoxville, Iowa, it's kinda hard not to be. Anyways, I played a demo of the game at Nationals back in August. I was happy with it, but it's not nearly as realistic as I'd like it to be. No pieces flying off the car after getting in a wreck? Driving through walls? Bumping and shoving with no real consequences? None of those are in my dictionary of a real simulation racing game. Don't get me wrong, I've been in eager anticipation for this game since late July, but I kind of feel let down. You make the call. I know it will sell well, but I feel jipped.

ComputerPlayer and Sprint Fan probably already own

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like sprint cars and play computer games, this is a match made in heaven. The only thing I didn't like is that Manzanita is a quarter mile track in the game. I'm from Arizona, home of Manzanita, and it's a half mile! Outlaws get 15 second times here, not too bad, when they actually come, which is not too much any more, and Western World has lots of history. Manzy has history.

Knoxville, Eldora, Terre Haute, Williams Grove, Lernerville, and more are all there.

If you find yourself "mastering" racing games to the point it's boring, just try that with this one hard setting on "quick race" mode. If you take a turn too wide, they WILL pass you. You mess up, you lose. You try as hard as you can and don't make a mistake, you may keep up. No "running away" in that mode. If you have the original DTR game, you can race on the tracks in both games.

The graphics are decent for me, I have to set graphics on regular, otherwise the computer runs too slow. Graphics are okay, but if you have a fast computer you can set graphics on high and it will almost be like watching sprints on T.V.

For those who complain steering and driving is unrealistic, set your car up right and it will be. Put the shocks on "tie-down" on the left side, and "tie-up" on the right side, you will get the real effect of leaning to the left entering the turns, due to wind resistance on the wing. Set your wing forward on small tracks, so your front wheels will grip, and set it back on big tracks so you don't powerslide too much and rear tires will grip. Put too much stagger in, and you can't get out of a powerslide. Too little stagger, and you will head straight to the wall on sharp corners. Setting tires on "wear" will make tires blow out when you hit other cars. Use a low ("tall") final gears on big tracks, high gears (like 5.40) on small tracks to pick up out of the corners. No, parts don't fly off in crashes like in real life, they just stay on the car and bend. Not too big a deal.

The cusion is non-existent, that's about the only unrealistic thing I have seen in this game. Don't bother with the cusion, it doesn't hold you back or stop you from sliding.

The wait is over

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Just like the rest of you, I to have anxiously awaited this game! Not only this game, but a sprint car game in genera. Having played the demo, I can assure you all not only the game, but the wait is well worth it! Graphics are great, gameplay is wonderful, and I was acting like a 4 year old playing it! (And that was only the demo). The holdup was in liscening with the WoO! Enjoy the game all! By the way, the pricing is another plus! Where else can you get a reusable right rear Goodyear for 20 bucks!

The Best PC Racing Game Available

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played NASCAR, F1 and Sports Car games on the PC. DTRSC is by far THE BEST racing game you can get your hands on. Don't let the low price fool you. I would gladly pay more for a game of this caliber. I have had this game for almost a year now and I have been playing it more than any other game. Its realism and game play are simply outstanding and I have encountered almost no glitches. There are many many tracks in the game so the scenery will never get old.

Dirt Track Racing:Sprint Cars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think that Dirt Track Racing:Sprint Cars is probably one of the best games I've played in my life!The graphics are great,and so is the gameplay.

Don't Advertise it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quit selling the product if they cant produce it. The release has been changed 6 times now. This make you the seller look bad.

Patience fellows pit rats.......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Relax and have faith that the Ratbag crew puts perfection before quick sales.How many games have you bought only to have to spend two hours downloading a patch because it was promised to be on shelves before the bugs were worked out(F1 2000)?

Relase Date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I do not know when the game will be out. I do know that all the trubble with the game is that all the copywrite stuff is not done with. Ratbag is done with the game it is all in WIZARD WORKS hands now. I got an e-mail from Ratbag and they said the demo should be out the 4th of October. We will all just have to wait and see.

As close to the real thing without leaving your desktop.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Watched Saturday Night Thunder from ESPN? Ever wondered what it was like to go 160mph. then sling a car sideways? This game is as close to the real thing without having to get dirty at the track. I thought the graphics were very well thought out. True no parts fall-off but for a racing sim. game this thing cooks!

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