Early last month we posted about a newly soft-launched game called NASCAR Heat Mobile [Free] from developer 704 Games, and over the weekend that game has now gone live worldwide. You may know 704 Games under their previous name Dusenberry Martin Racing, who acquired the NASCAR license in January 2015 in order to develop NASCAR games exclusively. They teamed up with Monster Games, developers of the original NASCAR Heat series of the early 2000s, to create NASCAR Heat Evolution for consoles and PCs, which released in September of last year to poor reviews. NASCAR Heat Mobile is a collaboration between 704 and long-time handheld racing game makers Firebrand Games.
Along with racing in the official Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series on the 23 officially sanctioned NASCAR tracks around the USA, NASCAR Heat Mobile also features a selection of real-life NASCAR drivers and officially licensed vehicles from companies like Toyota, Ford, and Chevrolet. I'm not someone who follows or even knows much about the world of NASCAR, but from where I'm sitting this seems like a really authentic way to simulate being in the world of NASCAR. Besides racing, there's also an interesting-sounding city-building sort of mode that has you building various attractions to lure in racegoers in a Fan Zone mode, which seems especially mobile game-y.
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