NASCAR Thunder 2003 (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

NASCAR Thunder 2003

NASCAR Thunder 2003 is the sixth edition of the EA Sports' NASCAR racing simulator series. Developed by EA Sports and Budcat Creations and published by Electronic Arts, it was released for PlayStation, Xbox…

19 September 2002

What NASCAR Thunder 2003 is

NASCAR Thunder 2003 is a racing game developed by Budcat Creations and released in 2002. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

NASCAR Thunder 2003 is the sixth edition of the EA Sports' NASCAR racing simulator series. Developed by EA Sports and Budcat Creations and published by Electronic Arts, it was released for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube on September 19, 2002, then for PlayStation 2 on September 29 and for PC on October 16. The product features Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on the cover. It was the first time the NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Award recipient was featured on the cover, although he did not win the award for the first time until the following year. Dale Earnhardt appeared in the game as a driver as a result of entering his name as a Create-A-Car driver's name; he did not appear in the previous…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the NASCAR series

NASCAR Thunder 2003 is the 23rd of 52 entries we hold in the NASCAR series. It arrived 7 months after NASCAR Racing 2002 Season. The next entry was NASCAR Thunder 2003 in 2002.

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