Immediately afterward, you'll be taken to your office, which serves as the main interface of the career mode in Dirt to Daytona. The first thing you'll do upon starting a career is create a driver. Anyone who's played Infogrames' V-Rally 3 for the PlayStation 2 will instantly recognize this campaign structure. Dirt to Daytona's career mode spans nearly 30 seasons, pits you against 43 other drivers, and challenges you on 31 different dirt and asphalt racetracks. Basically, you'll start out in the dirt leagues, but with enough experience and checkered flags, you'll be able to reach "America's race," the Daytona 500. In the game's career mode, you'll be tasked with advancing from the NASCAR Weekly Racing series, in which ordinary stock cars race each other on simple dirt tracks, to the NASCAR Featherlite Modified series, past the NASCAR Craftsman Truck league, and into the venerable NASCAR Winston Cup series. The game's name, though somewhat confusing at first, is telling of Dirt to Daytona's depth. Dirt to Daytona is a sound NASCAR simulation with one of the most robust career modes of any driving game to date. Those two issues aside, however, Dirt to Daytona is a thorough driving game that deserves the attention of any NASCAR fan. It still suffers from the two key problems that affected NASCAR Heat 2002: a relative lack of licensed drivers and a somewhat forgiving damage model. It has great graphics, a wide selection of cars, and an incredibly deep career mode. Whereas Thunder is geared toward a more casual audience, Infogrames' Dirt to Daytona for the GameCube is definitely more of a racing simulator. Electronic Arts' NASCAR Thunder 2003 is Dirt to Daytona's only competition on the GameCube, though the two games seem to go after different audiences. In fact, Dirt to Daytona is only the second NASCAR game to be released for the GameCube since the console's launch more than a year ago.
The recently released NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona is the spiritual follow-up to Monster Games and Infogrames' last NASCAR game, NASCAR Heat 2002, which was made available for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Game Boy Advance last year, but not the GameCube.
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