| NASCAR Thunder 2004 | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $34.28
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (30 reviews)
Sales Rank: 7687
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 14647
UPC: 014633146479
EAN: 0014633146479
ASIN: B00009WAW9
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Unparalleled Garage Options: The largest set of car setup options ever offered in a NASCAR simulation includes options such as fender flares, rear spoiler angles, tire pressure, wedge, gearing, suspension, anti roll bar, etc. Configure your car for each race and roll out for test sessions without affecting your NASCAR Cup standings. | | • | Easy to Connect Network and Online Play: Revamped system allows up to 16 competitors to easily connect in single race mode. With broadband, up to 16 players can connect with text chat. | | • | Vertex Damage Effects: In the improved damage model, every impact is unique as individual car damage models are rendered on the fly. | | • | 70 NASCAR Drivers and more than 175 authentic car skins: Take the wheel as one of your favorite NASCAR Cup drivers, Grand National drivers, or NASCAR legends. | | • | Scaling Difficulty Levels: Over a dozen, driver assist options help rookies get started. |
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Product Description
NASCAR Thunder 2004 puts gamers behind the wheel in a world where grudges and alliances mean the difference between victory lane and disaster. You're no longer just racing a track, you're racing a pack of 42 real world stars who think for themselves, remember your every move, and aren't afraid to pay you back.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
Fun for all ages May 8, 2008
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.
Great Game October 15, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 Nascar Thunder 2004 Review February 22, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
 So many glitches, it hurts November 11, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Worth the money August 17, 2004
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
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