NASCAR 21 Ignition | 2022 Season Expansion Review

Dmitry Kozko's wild ride will end in a courtroom sooner rather than later. NASCAR fans have been left with a defective product, created by a team posturing itself as a leading racing game developer and snatching up high profile licenses left & right, yet upon closer inspection appear to be little more than a Russian web developer and mobile game crew who were totally unfamiliar with the source material, and basically shouldn't have gotten this project to begin with. Or any of their announced projects, for that matter.

Ignoring the clusterfuck of a situation Motorsport Games is dealing with from a business standpoint, there are still people on the payroll, and they're still releasing products - today brings us a free 2022 season expansion for the ill-fated NASCAR 21: Ignition.

In any other racing game, this would have been an incredible deal.

Yet any trace amounts of good faith the company could have earned by working out fundamental issues plaguing the AI or framerate, whipping NASCAR 21 into a forgettable yet fundamentally sound stock car racing quasi-sim, has instead been squandered.

I don't actually think the team bothered to do anything beyond inject clearly unfinished new cars and tracks into the game. The content was demonstrably not tested and has left the title in a completely unplayable state. A half-decent lawyer and articulate sim racer explaining the intricacies of just how bad this product is, could easily turn this into a class action lawsuit if one isn't already on the drawing board.