Andretti, just the name should speak volumes. It is a name engrained in any time of motorsport. From F1, Indycar, Sports Car, NASCAR. Really any racing and you know the name Andretti. Whether it is Mario Andretti, Michael, John, Jeff or any Andretti. They also got into the foray of a PS1 game called Andretti Racing which also included stock car racing in addition to open wheeled racing. For this game, it has it's good and bad, which are previewed below.
Positives:
1. Simple and basic, which is what EA Sports wanted to do with this game. It ended up getting a greatest hits label but also it wasn't half bad to drive this game.
2. Driving is something you can do and have control on. Unlike Jarrett and Labonte Stock Car Racing, you won't twitch like crazy and have little to no influence on the car without crashing. You can drive and handle the car and make changes.
3. It is some realistic tracks, some fantasy, which I would believe was mid-90's thing with most racing games as NASCAR racing didn't have it nor did NASCAR 98 and such. So it was cool to see designed tracks and race on them and they didn't disappoint.
4. Graphics to this are pretty good honestly. Stock cars look like stock cars, same with indy cars. The tracks are not like blocky and bad, and flow with the game.
Negatives:
1. Stock car series is far easier than the Indy Car series or open wheel series. They didn't do much in the input of this and it was shown easily. I always start with Stock Car to just get it out of the way. Typically finish first or second in this series first.
2. Indy Car series is almost too difficult as Stock Car is easy. They didn't really factor for this and it also shown itself in a bad way to be honest.
All in all that are the main negatives to this game. Andretti Racing is still a better game than that of Jarrett and Labonte and CART World Series but doesn't square up to other racing games as well. It is okay for mainly a one time play through and that is about it.
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