Nascar 2006: Total Team Control / Game

The game came earlier than expected, and the game came in perfect condition. I love the car swap feature and I love the rival, ally system. The career mode is in depth. In short, this is one of the best NASCAR games ever.

Love my game got here in pretty good timing

I loved this game when it was new, never actualy owned it but roommate did long time ago, and we would alternate weeks playing this game after work. I just found out its on the list of xbox 360 compatible games, so I went and ordered this classic. To me the best part is the level of control and logistics, financially that is. You start off at the bottom of the pile with Light Wheel racing; basically a frame with a seat and an engine. You can either try out for teams that are willing to recruit you, or you can save up and own you own team. This game has it all, managing your own team, popularity contests for merchandising/sponsors, and even a relationship with the other drivers; something I don't see to often in sports games, but should considering on my bad days, I take it out on npcs.The thing that is not as common with my limited venture into racing/sports games is the relationship with the other players, I tended to play recklessly and did an all or nothing approach which made my fans love me, but often resulted in fines, and my agent hounding me about making apologies. This attitude for my driver made merchandising sales skyrocket since America loves a bad boy, but made other drivers start to really loath me. I've had my rivals for the season more often then not tossing it all away as they tried to slam me into the infield as I passed them for the lead, in fact had one match were entire the top 4 wanted to see me in flames before they let me pass. This hate sometimes resulted with me getting in the top 10 in a few races, but in the end it costed them more giving me a bigger lead in the points as some driver who normally places decent quickly got 1st from just avoiding the pile up in the final laps.The team ownership is why I love this game though, I like feeling like I own the car instead of merely borrow it. Plus in this one you earn a cut if your contract allows on sponsorship, and merchandising. I see it like a business sim, with my goal to cut out the middle man and buy my own team, upgrade my car/crew, and make fat merchandising profits so I can do it all over again for the next series on the latter. Once you move up you can easily hire a NPC driver to run your car while your doing other races or simply let them run full time with a few surprise appearance to rile up the crowd and/or change the pace if the other series are wearing on you. Its the uncut merchandising profits I love the most about owning a team in the game.To sum it up this is my favorite racing game, and even though I got addicted to Grand Turismo 5 for a bit, but I always missed worrying about popularity with the fans, and other drivers, and how that would keep my t-shirt sales up lol. Every time I played a racing game since 2005 however sparse (not a huge race fan in real life) I always get nostalgic for this game. For the moments when a trivial would show up to my garage shouting at me after he tried to kill me on the track, and the fun times where I saw it more as a bushiness game, with racing thrown in for fun. I am so happy that I found out it plays on Xbox 360, because the thought that it wasn't was the only reason I never got this game once I started up my own console collection.

Best nascar game ever made. Accurate racing and interesting damage physics. Can even drive the wrong way and burst other cars into flames with head on collisions if you are raging

i play this all the time, it worked great, , like new, great bang for the buck,