Indianapolis 500 Racing Review: The missions are very addictive. High intensity racing made even more fun with using the Wii remote as the steering wheel, controls very responsive, and the AI is VERY good, I was cursing out the Clown Prince within 40 minutes of picking it up. Graphics a bit challenging, but overcome by gameplay. The old cars are GREAT, and the crashes can be downright frightening and eerie, flaming infernos and all just like you saw in those old Indy race films. The drafting and slingshotting is intense.

The Pit Challenges are nothing more than a point and turn exercises, but at least its something different in a racing game. A very different game packaged with a racing history lesson. Does justice to the Cathedral of Speed, any Wii owner who is a race fan MUST have this game in their collection just for the history alone, the excellent gameplay is just icing on the cake.
Indianapolis 500 Racing Review: Until now the only racing game that was fun and used the wii controls well was excite truck. This game uses the controls in the same way, holding the remote sideways and steering like a steering wheel.

Its sensitive to movement and the game is both easy to learn but challenging to be good, which is a balance that is hard to achieve without becoming frustrating.

The game is only able to support 2 players, and I wish it would support 4 but that’s ok. The missions are fun and it’s cool that you get to race as some of the legends and in some of the same situations that the Indianapolis 500 is famous for. For Instance if you pick say 1961, you pick a driver and one of the missions may be the same thing that drive faced that year: you’re in third with three laps to go - beast your rivals. Things like this. The track and cars adapt to the years very accurately. I heard they scanned photos of the track and cars from each year and worked very diligently to make the game look real…it shows.

If you like racing games this is fun. It’s not like Mario kart or such where anyone can have fun with powerups and such. This game relays on you actually racing like a real racer of the times. You need to find the groove, use drafting, slingshots and braking to win.

It’s very well done, simple but complex, and cool. I can easily see myself, 25 and my dad 54 playing this game together and having a blast. That’s the great thing about the wii and the great thing about this game. Car and racing enthusiast will love it.

Indianapolis 500 Racing Description: In Indianapolis 500 Legends, players step into the lightning fast boots of 30 of the sport’s most revered racing legends, such as Al Unser, A.J. Foyt and Parnelli Jones. The game makes use of the Wii’s remote through pit-stop mini-games that include changing tires and refueling. The game also includes a healthy supply of unlockable Indy memorabilia.

Indianapolis 500 Racing Review: This game won’t be for everyone, but if your like me and sick of the Need for Speed franchise it’s a breath of fresh air. I’m playing this on a 720P DLP projector throwing a 10ft wide image and it looks great. I don’t get where people think the graphics aren’t good the most important things for me are the cars and track which look great. It is very impressive at the start seeing the entire field of cars as you take off. There is also a cool drafting effect that lets you know when you are in the right position. It looks kind of like translucent blue streamers coming off the car your drafting as you get closer they become thicker and change color to a more purple. It adds to the fun of drafting. Another nice effect is the occasional backfire errupting a bit of flame out of the mufflers of yours and other cars. Driving through flaming wrecks is quite well done also.

My only gripe is with the lack of analogue gas and braking controls. Its not the end of the world, but it would have been nice. The steering control is very good and even better if you have one of those wheels to put your Wiimote into for some reason having the Wiimote in an actual wheel even if it isn’t attached to anything really adds to the control. The crash effects are fantastic and so is the in the car view. The music is nothing to write home about, but since the games features car engine sounds from the real cars that is really all I need anyway. The anouncer is pretty decent as well.

I haven’t had a ton of time with the game just completed 3 missions so far so I will update the review later. Just thought this would help any Indy fans sitting on the fence.

Indianapolis 500 Racing Review: The description for this game makes it seem like you can race any of the chosen cars from 1961 to 1971 whenever you want. Wrong! You must complete missions to unlock additional cars and years. “Dodge” is the second mission and it’s incredibly frustrating to try and survive 5 catastrophic accidents within a 1/2 lap involving every vehicle on the track except the pace car.

Price: $29.99