The ultimate goal is to become the NASCAR Cup Series champion. NASCAR fans, think of it like Jordan Anderson or Tommy Joe Martins the last few seasons in Trucks and Xfinity. You can either race each season as an owner/driver or just drive for a preexisting teamĪs an owner/driver, you’ll create your own team, manage your own expenses and personnel, upgrade equipment and work up the NASCAR ladder. There are four series to race in – The Xtreme Dirt Tour, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the NASCAR Cup Series – and there are two paths to take as well. You can hop in at the very bottom of a career or start in the top series. The NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+ Career Mode is fairly linear. CAREER MODEĪs it usually is with NASCAR console games, the career mode is the big-ticket item for the majority of it.
If you want to still have the ability to change the way the car drivers in the setup, then you’ll likely have to use a custom assist mode to get the right feel and keep the setup screen available. One important thing to note, however, is that at a certain point, having enough assists turned on will turn off the in-game custom or premade setups. Start at a lower setting until you get more comfortable, then raise it up from there. Turning all the assists off would need an expert touch to not completely spin on take-off or lock up the brakes when attempting to slow down. It’s more of a constant full-on, full-off sensation when pressing the corresponding buttons. Conversely, the higher you go, the harder it will be.īeing on a Nintendo Switch with digital controllers, the gas and brake aren’t pressure sensitive in any sense. More driving assistance will be implemented and the AI will be turned down. The lower you are, the easier things will be. There are four difficulty presets – Casual, Normal, Hard and Expert. DIFFICULTY OPTIONSįirst things first, you’ll set up how you want to play the game. Things such as Challenges and, of course, the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series paint schemes are only in the 2020 mode. Certain things can only be accessed in the original 2020 roster, however. With that said, you can play the whole time in one or the other, or move back and forth through the main menu on the right-hand side. You can play the game in either season, 2021 or 2020, but the game will treat the two areas separately from one another.
SEASON SELECTĪ key difference between NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+ and NASCAR Heat 5 is the inclusion of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series roster.
From setting up the controls to starting a career, from playing online to customizing your driver, and everything else in between, I’ve got what you need to succeed in the latest portable NASCAR game. I’ll be diving into some of the basics for NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+ to help get everyone started. It’s almost like NASCAR Heat was made for the Switch console, which is a good thing for this port. It supports single-player career and online as well as a split-screen single race mode. The game can be played handheld or on a docking station to a television. Ultimately, this is NASCAR gaming on the go with the Nintendo Switch.
While the game is technically a port of the previously released NASCAR Heat 5 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam, this title might be a whole new world to a select group of gamers who have never experienced NASCAR Heat before. Then there’s survival mode, where you’ll need to work together to avoid being devoured by Creepers.NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+ is a new game to the Nintendo Switch family. Of course Minecraft, like Fortnite, can be played on any number of systems, but (unlike Fortnite) its place under the Microsoft banner helps it feel more at home here.Ī lightning rod for creativity, split-screen gamers can build for hours in the game’s blocky worlds, like the world’s largest Lego box. Minecraft is always a reliable source for multiplayer (Picture: Microsoft) Just make sure your friend brings their own controller. Thankfully, Cuphead can be joined by co-op partner Mugman in this side-scrolling platformer/shoot’em up hybrid, making things at least a little easier. Unfortunately, it’s hard to feel anything other than sheer, controller-throwing frustration when faced with a boss you can’t get past. CupheadĬuphead is an absolute gem (Picture: StudioMDHR)Ĭuphead is a beautiful game where every pixel and every animation feels perfectly cohesive to the style of early Disney movies. While the entirety of Kait’s emotionally charged story can be played through with a friend, the new Escape mode which involves tense encounters with powerful enemies and unstoppable explosives is also entirely playable in co-op.įactor in the ever-compulsive Horde mode and you’ve got the complete side-by-side sofa gaming package. Gears of War was always famed for offering a co-operative campaign, but Gears 5 takes things up a notch in terms of content.