NASCAR Thunder 2003

List Price: $14.99 Discount Price: $14.50

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Customer Reviews:

EA vs. Papyrus nascar series [Posted on 2003-01-26]
Well to start off with thunder 2003 is another fluke from EA
its just as bad as all the rest of there nascar games.
if you want a real race sim . You need to look no further than any papyrus nascar racing series .
o yea for you dale fan's
he was the spokesman for papy untill ea bought him out (What a sell out)

Save your time and money [Posted on 2003-02-11]
I'm a long time NASCAR fan and a long time NASCAR sim racer. Ive been following the development of the Sierra/Papyrus group and moved up through all of their versions. With all of the hype (guess millions spent in advertising does work) I got NASCAR Thunder 2003 for Christmas. I was really looking forward to it. I loaded it up, fooled with it a couple of times, and it has not been run since. This thing is at most 20% of the game NASCAR 2002 is. The graphics look like caricatures of cars, misshappen and strange. There's just not very much in this game to get excited about. Save your money on this one and buy any of the Papyrus NASCAR games. They are all better than this ridiculous thing.

I thought that EA would be able to do for their NASCAR game what they did for F1-2000 and F1-2002 which are pretty decent sims. I was wrong.

nascar thunder 2003 [Posted on 2003-02-25]
very disapointed with game.have a lot of trouble with it.cant't tune cars right.ordered nascar 2003,hope its better.

Not very good [Posted on 2004-07-28]
Usually EA is great. However, for the serious online racer, Sierra's Nascar 2003 season is really the best. I was not impressed.

Get the NASCAR 2003, Papyrus version, instead [Posted on 2005-10-30]
I'm extremely disappointed in EA. This game is light-years inferior to the NASCAR 2003 game previously made by Papyrus.

EA bought a NASCAR racing game MONOPOLY for themselves by purchasing sole marketing rights for using the NASCAR name, driver's names, sponsor's names, tracks, themes, etc. Now that they've driven their superior rivals from the scene, they feel they are leaving NASCAR fans with no choice but to buy this inferior product.

They've had years to improve this game to 2003 standards, but they think NASCAR fans are too "intellectually unsophisticated" to know the difference, and will have no choice but to buy their product. This is perfect example of why competition is needed.

Save your money, since the Papyrus games are still available from various sources(just search).

Even if I didn't already have access to NASCAR 2003, I still wouldn't waste my time playing this, since numerous other racing games(non-NASCAR) are vastly superior to EA's in every respect.

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