NASCAR Thunder 2004 takes you into the screaming speed and backroom grudges that make up a professional racing season — understand what the pros do: that racing is a contact sport! Advanced AI creates more intense rivalries — if you’re rough on your fellow competitors, they’ll retaliate, so make sure you make the right friends and enemies!
- Become one of over 40 NASCAR racers, and drive on all 23 Winston Cup tracks and 11 amazing fantasy tracks — over 60 events in all
- Sharpen your skills with a set of mini-games that introduce the fundamentals of championship racing — passing, split time challenges, drafting, and holding position
- Incredible online racing features, with peer-to-peer racing, online rankings, text chat and buddy lists
- Play the enhanced Career Mode, and guide your racer through 20 seasons by managing sponsorships, car construction, research and development and even pit crews
- Relive some of the greatest moments in racing history as if you were there, in Lightning Challenge
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 44.49
EA Definitely Messed It Up!,
Well, I have to agree with the author that stated EA messed up what used to be a good game. I constantly play Nascar Thunder 2003 and thought that 2004 looked better. WRONG. Granted, the graphics are a lot better, but that’s the only thing that has improved. The gameplay has been ruined – the graphics are so overdone that a white “wall” of what looked like smoke would appear every so often in the game. Personally, it looks like EA just used the code for the PS1 version of the game and beefed up the graphics. The sound is pathetic – doesn’t even sound like a real car like 2003 does. It’s also not compatible with the Logitch wheel. The same day I bought my copy I had it up for sale if that tells you anything.
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|If you liked 2003…you’ll dig this one!!,
i’ll start off with the only complaint i can find thus far…the replay on the 2003 version was “cooler” because you could select the “reel” going forward or backward. This one is great in it’s own right because you now have the option to select the camera angles right there!!. But(run on)on this version only going forward seems to be the “haps”!! Other than that…For the NASCAR Winston Cup Series fan (Nextel next year)…this is a super cool game!! Shifting was different for me as now it is a L1;R1 thing, but overall if you like the genre, this game is…Cool and Fun!!!…the alliances & grudges is super nice and mirrors today’s current action….Ea really guessed great and it played out for them!! (whatta trend, brawls in da pits!!;P)Race clean and you’ll be cool…bump and grind and they will find you!!! highly recommended for the NASCAR fan!!
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