IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005

by Bethesda

Product Features

• Experience realistic racing with fully detailed weather and atmospheric dynamics
• Choose from more than 35 vehicles, including classics and late models
• Features top cars and drivers from Top Fuel, Pro Mod, Pro Stock, and Funny Car
• Customize 70 vehicle components, from tires to transmissions to electronics
• Race a single event, a whole season, or go head-to-head against a friend!

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000641Z68
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 4, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,068 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

More than 100 Parts and over 40 Vehicels!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why Didn't They Get It Right?, July 4, 2008

By 

David P. Hapgood - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005 (Video Game)

I had high hopes for this one, considering that most X-Box games are fairly sophisticated. All I can guess is that this project was done on the cheap. The graphics have a 'trapped in the 1990s' feel to them and within 2 hours I was winning every single run. And I'm not even a computer gamer. I wouldn't know where to start with what is lame about this game. TF rear ends way too wide (did the software programmers not look at photos/videos of the real thing?) the tires maintain the same 'static' form whether in burnout, finish line, or stationery mode. Your opponent will almost never cut better than a 1 second reaction time, which NEVER happens in real life, and your tires will never go up in smoke, which happens to even the best in real life about a quarter of the time. My TF car has run as quickly as 4.27 seconds at 365mph, about two tenths and 30mph faster than any have gone before in reality, even at NHRA. No, it wasn't that I was so good, it was that the game is so bad. I ran quicker and faster in Pro Mod, Pro Stock and alky FC than anyone in real life has ever gone before. And except for the very fastest TF setting (their premium car) I haven't had to touch the steering mechanism the whole time (in that TF car it always hooks to the right at exactly the same point in the run every time, always to the right, never to the left). I would have liked to experience tire shake, tire smoke, blower explosions, blower belts coming off, head gasket failures/fires, hydrauliced motors, and ill-handling runs. X-box can handle much more sophisticated software than this (look at some of their other games). And the audio track is a joke: why didn't they simply use recordings of the real thing? I especially liked the 'voice over,' talking about 'Pro Stock Dragsters!'(???)is really a hoot. First time I've ever heard a doorslammer referred to as a dragster. The sight of funny cars in the staging lanes with their bodies DOWN is hilarious. And I've barely scratched the surface. Despite it all, I've managed at least four hours of really boring fun out of this game, so I give it two stars instead of one.