NASCAR 2005 CHASE FOR THE CUP

Reviewed by SHAWNMICHAELS2 on May 29, 2007  |  report this review

NASCAR 2005 CHASE FOR THE CUP is a great game. This NASCAR game has a new feature called Fight to the top. I love this new feature because you work your way up from the botom of the NASCAR series. First you start out in the Featherlight series. While you go through the season you will get a test session for the Craftsman Truck series and if you pass you will have a contract you can sign that season or the beginning of next season. If you sign it on your first season and your doing well you will get another test session, but this time for the National Busch series (NBS). Then near the end of the season If your still doing well in all three seasons you will get a test session for the highest ranking series. The NASCAR Nextel cup series. If you do good enough you will get yet another contract that you can sign. Thats Fight to the top mode. Now time for the new car features. This year you have four series of cars you can race with in Exabition Mode. the Wheelen Modified cars, the Craftsman trucks, The Busch series cars, and the Nextel cup cars which were the origional cars you could drive in previous years. NOTE: WHEN YOU ARE USING THE FEATHERLITE CARS YOU CAN'T MAKE PIT STOPS SO DON'T BANG UP YOUR CAR. Now to talk about Skill points. Skill points are easy and also hard to receive depending on what your doing. The easy ones you receive normally for just racing. You get them for cleanly passing people, overlaping, drafting, intimidating, taking the lead leading laps etc. You can lose normal skill points by racing dirty. That includes bumping, scaping, crashing, spinning people out, getting overlapped etc. You can also receive skill points by doing lightning challenges and a new feature called Skill point challenges. This is where the hard comes into play. These challenges go anywhere from easy to extreme. Now you have your EASY catigory, your MEDIUM catigory, your HARD catigory, and your EXTREME catigory. The easy challenges range from 500-1,000 skill points each. the medium challenges range from 1,000-1,500 skill points each. The hard challenges range from 1,500-3,000 skill points each. And the extreme challenges range anywhere from 2,000 skill points to 15,000 skill points each. Spending your points is the best part. You can get paint schemes, new drivers, new production cars, new tracs, and pole positions. Oh yeah and a Mr.Clean pit crew which costs 15,000 skill points. The next new feature adding onto the Share draft feature to make allies comes the new INTIMIDATE feature. This new feature does the exact opposite of the share draft feature. This makes your opponent make mistakes, for instance when you on a turn they will go to high, or to low and hit the wall, or slip up this gives you a chance of taking their position but it also makes them your enemy. The next new feature on NASCAR 2005 CHASE FOR THE CUP is the production car feature. This feature will let you drive cars like a Mustang, or a Lightning Truck. You receive these through Fight To Th