Sierra Sports: NASCAR Legends

Tracks: Alabama Motor Speedway (now Talladega), Atlanta Int'l Raceway, Bowman Gray Stadium, Bristol Intern'l Speedway, Charlotte (now Lowe's) Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Greenville-Pickens Speedway, Martinsville Speedway, Michigan Speedway, N.C.-Rockingham Speedway, North Wilkesboro Speedway, Ontario Motor Speedway, Richmond Fairgrounds, Riverside International (no longer in existence), Texas World Speedway, and Thompson Speedway. Overall, a good mix of superspeedways and short-tracks with one road course.


A good, fun middle-of-the-road racing sim   April 14, 2001
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I was 7 years old when Richard Petty raced at Daytona, but I remember looking through all of my parent's old vacation pictures of their time at the tracks. All of the cars I remember from those races are in this sim: the Dodge Daytona, Ford Torino, Plymouth Superbird, and even the rare Mercury Cyclone are there, complete with 70's vintage sponsor signs in the outfield. This sim recreates a few tracks which no longer exist, which is kind of neat for long-time racing fans who remember them. Graphics are good enough and are fast on today's Pentium 3 and 4 machines, which allows you to see a lot more cars without the slideshow effects of the newer NASCAR sims. You get to adjust your suspension, steering, fuel load, and tire pressure and you can create your own custom paint job. I have a joystick and set of rudder pedals, but I haven't figured out (yet) how to get the game to recognize my flight pedals as brake/gas. I don't do much racing on computer and I only started following NASCAR this year, but this game is a hoot to play. Slider bars permit the computer-controlled cars to be adjusted in skill, the player-controlled car can be made to drive more realistically, and the tire pressure, suspension, caster and camber, and fuel load can all be adjusted to affect how the player's car drives, too. I haven't had a chance to play with the paint shop to change the color of my car, but that should be a lot of fun, too. The only thing lacking is better damage effects and better support for my flight rudder pedals, but that may just be a matter of my reading the player manual.


Legendary Gaming, That is what this game is!   July 24, 2000
 11 out of 19 found this review helpful

I recently bought this item for 10 bucks of a person I know. I thought he was crazy giving me a 50 dollar game for 10 bucks, but I just thought he was desperate. I was dead wrong. I was so excited to install and play it. That is where I found the first of many problems with the game. I correctly installed NASCAR LEGENDS, but it would not run. I installed it 3 or 4 times trying to get it to work and I opened the game every way imaginable, but It still ceased to open. It turned out that I had to go online and download the patch for the game just to get it to work. Then, when it finnally did work, I was very disapointed in it. The game has drivers, their cars, and the tracks from 1970, which was all very accurate. But it had HORRIBLE graphics. It had the EXACT same graphics as NASCAR RACING 2, which was a couple years old, not to mention that the setup and everything else in the game was exactly the same. All I think they did was took NASCAR 2, and slapped some older cars, older drivers, and some older tracks in the game. I was not very happy. The game is definatly NOT worth 50 bucks, not by a long shot. And you are probably thinking that I didnt like the game because I am not a hardcore nascar fan, but that is wrong. I'm as hardcore as they get, so it isnt me. The game really should've been a 15 dollar expansion pack for Nascar 2. And to add on top of that, the only controller of mine the game would use was the keyboard. I dont know about you, but I dont spend big bucks on nice steering wheels, joysticks, and gamepads. In conclusion, do not buy this game that should have been released 5 years ago.