Customer Reviews

NASCAR Thunder 2003

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I received this game just over a day ago and was disappointed to say the least. The best part was all the options that you have with a car. It is almost info overload. But.........the graphics are AWFUL! I have a Athon 800MHZ pc with a NVIDIA GEFORCE 2 64MB card and have the graphics set to the max. They remind me of the graphics for the first NASCAR RACING game from Papyrus. You can tell where EA cuts some corners. I would suggest NASCAR RACING 4 if you want the complete package.

Basically, this is an arcade GAME, NOT anywhere close to a simulation. If you want a physics model that simulates real racing get Papyrus N2002, or wait for the N2003 in February. EA has obviously cut many corners to get this on the shelves before Christmas. Patches are needed to correct inaccurate physics and gameplay, and the multiplayer is a joke. Don't waste your money.

What a shame that Sierra/Papayrus is doing their last Nascar Season( series) 2003, EA sports Nascar Thunder 2003 does not come close. You canot fne tune the car movements, the controls are sloppy, and the overall quality of racing is very choppy and not very realistic. The graphics and sound are great, but they should hire the Sierra staff toi make their game work right. EA sports has quite a reputation but they sure do not know how to make a good racing game.

This game doesn't even remotely compare to the "NASCAR Racing" series by Papyrus. Graphics and game play are poor. Wait for NASCAR Racing 2003 to be released.

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.

Ive been racing online for quite sometime. I was extremely excited about this game. What a disapointment. The physics are poor. The graphics are average at best. Replay value is low. Multiplay is pretty much useless. The multiplayer doesnt really even work. On the few times you can connect on a multiplayer game it disconnects within 10 minutes, regardless of your connection. Do yourself a favor, wait till Feb/ 2003 and buy Papy's 2003 Nascar game. They make a product that will blow you away! Stunning graphics, smooth gameplay, real physics, Multiplayer easy and lag free.

Usually EA is great. However, for the serious online racer, Sierra's Nascar 2003 season is really the best. I was not impressed.

very disapointed with game.have a lot of trouble with it.cant't tune cars right.ordered nascar 2003,hope its better.

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)

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.