NASCAR Heat 2002

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NASCAR Heat 2002
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PS2 cover art featuring the cars of Ricky Rudd, Dale Jarrett, Jeff Burton, Rusty Wallace, and Ward Burton
Developer(s) Monster Games
Crawfish Interactive (GBA)
Publisher(s) Infogrames
Platform(s) Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox [1]
ReleasePlayStation 2
Xbox
  • NA: November 15, 2001 [4]
Game Boy Advance
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

NASCAR Heat 2002, sometimes mislabeled as NASCAR Heat, [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] is a NASCAR video game produced by Infogrames for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Game Boy Advance consoles. It is the successor to the 2000 game NASCAR Heat , and the predecessor to NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona . NASCAR Heat 2002 can have up to 24 (PS2) or 43 (Xbox, including fictional cars) racers on one of 19 official NASCAR tracks, and the game was released in June 2001 for PlayStation 2. A port for the Xbox was released in November 2001. Developed by Crawfish Interactive, a distinct version for Game Boy Advance was released in May 2002.

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Development

The game was supported by GameSpy Arcade for online multiplayer. [11]

Reception

The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions received "favorable" reviews, while the Game Boy Advance version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [12] [13] [14] Jim Preston of NextGen 's September 2001 issue said that the PS2 version "lacks the complete details to be the best, but it's still an accurate and fun way to drive fast and to the left." [9] Three issues later, however, he said that the Xbox version "won't convert non-NASCAR nuts, but casual and hardcore stock fans would be wise to pick it up." [27]

Jake The Snake of GamePro 's September 2001 issue called the PlayStation 2 version "the stock-car game to beat." [31] [lower-alpha 2] Four issues later, Four-Eyed Dragon said of the Xbox version, "If you want a worthy adversary to EA's NASCAR series, Heat is it." [32] [lower-alpha 3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Two critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Xbox version each a score of 6.5/10, and the other gave it 7/10.
  2. ↑ GamePro gave the PlayStation 2 version three 4.5/5 scores for graphics, control, and fun factor, and 3.5/5 for sound.
  3. ↑ GamePro gave the Xbox version three 4.5/5 scores for graphics, control, and fun factor, and 3.5/5 for sound.

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