NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup  | | Release Date: August 31,
2004  NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup   The simple answer to my
strapline is yes. Before I get into why, I feel compelled to
preface this review with a bit of honesty. My experience with
NASCAR gaming prior to this assignment largely started and
stopped on the PC where I was privy to some unfathomably bad
efforts and some astonishingly good ones (sweet Papyrus and your
Heat, how I will forever remember thee fondly). This is
important to note because I've had to reacquaint myself with
what is essentially a different franchise (even had to go back
and play previous NASCAR titles on consoles). Like EA's Tiger
Woods of earlier years, NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup is
significantly different from the PC simulation games which may
misleadingly feature similar titles.  Even being so heavily
influenced by the personal computer's more demanding NASCAR
efforts, and admittedly being somewhat biased because of them, I
have discovered it impossibly hard to find s