Binding: Video Game Brand: Electronic Arts EAN: 0014633146479 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Platform: PlayStation2 Publisher: Electronic Arts Sales Rank: 5273 Studio: Electronic Arts
Features:
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
Product Description: 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!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Fun for all ages
This game was based on the 2003 Nascar season, which was the last year it was called "Winston Cup"....I absolutely love this game. I got a wheel for my pc version, and it is awesome. The two best feature's I think this game has is the number of race tracks to choose from, and being able to pick the best drivers from days of old..I.E. Richard Petty(My Fav. Driver of All Time), the late Great Dale Earnhardt. Although, it is strange seeing a deceased driver on the track. The fantasy courses are really cool, as are the ones you can unlock the better you play. If you want the last year of Winston Cup, this is the game for you.
Rating: - Great Game
They just keep making these games better and better each year. While I suppose this one is now dated, as it is no longer 2004, this is still a fun and entertaining game. If you are wanting a good NASCAR game you have found in this or any other one made by EA.
Rating: - Nascar Thunder 2004 Review
Most people view Nascar 2005: Chase for the Cup as the greatest Nascar game released. I do not feel this way. Ever since I played "Thunder 2004" for the first time, I loved it. One day, I rented Nascar 2005 and I also had Nascar Thunder 2004. I played both for 2 hours and evaluated both. Thunder may be outdated, but it is much more fun than Chase for the Cup. There are special fantasy tracks and if you have ever dreamed about racing as "Tony Stewart" around the infamous "Daytona Beach" of when Nascar started, then this is for you. It even has a create-a-car feature which you can create your own car and race it to Nascar Domination! The music and sound quality are top-notch, the car graphics and paint schemes are wonderful, and the interior shot rules! I give this game A+, but Nascar 2005: Chase for The cup only receives a D+ from me.
Rating: - So many glitches, it hurts
Nascar Thunder 2004 PC version
Overall, I like the concepts this game tried to bring in. But there are SO MANY SCREW UPs, that I can rarely get through a race. So I have made a list....
1. Viewing Replays during a Race
- If you view a replay during a race, and you exit the replay while the part you are replaying is a previous pit stop, you come out of the replay on the track, wherever you stopped racing to start your replay, then suddenly, it says "Black Flag - Speeding down pit road". Even though you were just reviewing a pit stop, it saw your speed when you went back to the race and busts you.
2. Auto Caution Laps Driving
- If you enable this function, prepare to get upset. If you pit and the field gets the one to go while your pitting, you will exit the pit lane and go only about 90mph. At tracks like michigan, daytona etc. This is no where near enough to catch up with the end of the field and you start at the green a 1/2 a lap down.
3. Driving too slowly penalty
- This penalty happens sometimes so quickly that you dont have a chance. You get ahead of a car you are supposed to be behind and the computer tells you. You wait for it, he blows by, then you get the Driving to slowly warning. At some tracks you about have to wreck yourself to not get black flagged.
4. Ahead of a car your supposed to be following penalty
- I have had several instances where I am behind the car I am supposed to be following, and on the correct lap, and it still tells me to get behind that car. The green flag waves, I get black flagged.
5. Caution Laps
- 1 mile tracks and up... way too many caution laps.
- Shorts Tracks.. not enough. If you are in the middle to back of the pack at martinsville, and you try to pit. By the time you get in the pit, they get the 1 to go and by the time you are on your way out, the green had dropped.
Bottom line is...
This game has a lot of fun stuff on it... but if you really want to do a career mode seriously.. it will drive you insane.
EA Sports has not yet been able to produce a Nascar game that is even in the same league as Papyrus Nascar Racing Season 2003. With that series of games gone now... I look to EA Sports and I am thoroughly disapointed. I Hear that there are big changes for the PC version of Nascar Thunder 2005. I can only Hope.
Rating: - Worth the money
It's very hard to pass the leader on restrictor plate tracks (realistic as it is) so sometimes you make contact with them and it's a sure thing that you're going to get turned around as you come off turn 4 by that person. I still rate it a 5.
- Nascar Thunder 2004 Review
- So many glitches, it hurts
