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NASCAR Thunder 2004

NASCAR Thunder 2004 puts gamers behind the wheel in a world where grudges and alliances mean the difference between victory lane and disaster. You're no longer just racing a track, you're racing a pack of 42 real world stars who think for themselves, remember your every move, and aren't afraid to pay you back. Revenge may be around the next corner or at the next race, as you scream through 23 authentic tracks or hone your road racing skills on 11 fantasy tracks. The key to success is building alliances that carry from race to race and season to season in an improved career mode that challenges drivers to manage sponsors, teams, garages, and crews while building a 20-year racing legacy. Online or on your own, racing just became a contact sport.

• PC-Specific Game Engine: PC drivers enjoy a new physics engine that provides an authentic NASCAR simulation. Realistic vehicle dynamics accurately model tire grip and wear patterns, handling and suspension, and collisions.
• New PC Career Mode: For the first time, PC gamers get the challenge of managing teams, including sponsorships, car construction, R&D, and car setups.
• Unparalleled Garage Options: The largest set of car setup options ever offered in a NASCAR simulation includes options such as fender flares, rear spoiler angles, tire pressure, wedge, gearing, suspension, anti roll bar, etc. Configure your car for each race and roll out for test sessions without affecting your NASCAR Cup standings.
• " Easy to Connect Network and Online Play: Revamped system allows up to 16 competitors to easily connect via LAN or online to battle in single race mode. With broadband, up to 16 players can connect with text chat and matchmaking by GameSpy.
• Vertex Damage Effects: In the improved damage model, every impact is unique as individual car damage models are rendered on the fly.
• 70 NASCAR Drivers and more than 175 authentic car skins: Take the wheel as one of your favorite NASCAR Cup drivers, Grand National drivers, or NASCAR legends.
• Scaling Difficulty Levels: Over a dozen, driver assist options help rookies get started. Season Mode: Race an unlimited number of seasons as you compete against full 43 car fields.
• Third Party Support (online community): Car skins can be easily updated, customized, and swapped. Skilled gamers can tweak all graphic and performance related aspects of the game.
• Amazing Visual Effects: Race through spectacular crashes with car fragments and flying sparks. Car parts on the track will damage vehicles if struck, and shadows cast by track objects are visible on car bodies.
• Pit Road Realism: Detailed motion captured animations bring pit crews and NASCAR officials to life.
• Sense of Speed: Greater volume of trackside items, more things "flying" by, and more shadow reflections on the car bodies and track surface.
• Bonus Daytona Beach Road Course: Take on this Fifties style classic course that spans land and sand.

Developer: EA Sports
Release date: 09/16/2003
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Homeworld 2

Combining elements of real-time strategy and space combat, Homeworld 2 delivers the next evolutionary step in gameplay and technology. Cinematic-quality graphics, special effects, rendered ships and an innovative interface combine to create an immersive 3-D space combat experience.

Developer: Relic
Release date: 09/16/2003
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

The highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series returns as you follow the path of a new student at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. Continue an ancient tradition and learn the powers-and dangers-of the Force. Completely customize the look of your character. Construct your own lightsaber from handle to blade. And customize your fighting stance-from the classic single-blade, to a blade in each hand, to the rare and powerful dual-blade. The Force will be with your as you hone your Jedi skills in single player missions or fight it out in multiplayer modes.

As a new student of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy, follow an ancient tradition and learn the powers - and dangers - of the Force. The Force is a powerful ally; use it wisely.

• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy allows players to immerse themselves in the classic Star Wars universe as they take on the role of a student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Master Luke Skywalker. Players will interact with famous classic Star Wars locations and characters while facing the ultimate choice: fight for good and freedom in the light side or follow the path of power and evil to the dark side.
• Players can create their own characters by defining various characteristics, such as species, gender, clothing and physical attributes allowing for a more personal experience before entering the academy to learn the powers - and dangers - of the Force.
• Construct your own lightsaber from handle to blade color. Utilize two if you prefer or try the ultimate dual-bladed lightsaber made famous by Darth Maul.
• Unique tiered level selection allows players to choose their adventure and the missions they take based on the skills they need to become the ultimate Jedi Knight.
• Additional multiplayer modes add depth to the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight legacy. Players can partake in a variety of unique modes.
• New vehicles, weapons and Star Wars environments enhance players Star Wars experience.

Developer: Raven
Release date: 09/16/2003
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Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour

Prepare to unleash the absolute latest in modern weapons technology against the world's most powerful Generals in Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour. In the next era of military strategy and might, you'll need to command a more technologically advanced arsenal to defeat new, more powerful enemies. The first expansion pack for the critically acclaimed Command & Conquer Generals challenges players to square off against the world's most elite commanders for battlefield domination. Even the most experienced C&C Generals veteran must learn new strategies and tactics to take full advantage of -- and learn to defend against -- the next generation of the world's most lethal weapons. With new units, structures, and upgrades, as well as the all-new Generals Challenge Mode, Zero Hour delivers all the firepower you'll need in your quest to become the ultimate modern warfare General.

• Next-Generation Weapons for the Next Generation of War
• Unload on your enemies with an all-new, hi-tech arsenal-new armies bring the next level of military sophistication to the battlefield..
  " The Ultimate Challenge
• Unload on your enemies with an all-new, hi-tech arsenal-new armies bring the next level of military sophistication to the battlefield.
  "New Missions, Tomorrow's Headlines
• Destroy the U.S. fleet in the Mediterranean, root out a splinter cell in Cairo, infiltrate a U.S. intelligence building, and send in special operatives to capture weapons of mass destruction.
• More Ways to Achieve Global Domination
• Utilize a massive arsenal of new units, new structures, and new upgrades-next-generation military advancements include weapons designed with microwave, laser, and satellite technology.
• Combat Training
  The all-new Combat School feature tracks your stats and provides post-mission analysis-study the feedback to improve your battle strategy.
  " Combat the Elements
• Weather effects further immerse you in a more realistic combat environment.

Developer: Electronic Arts
Release date: 09/22/2003
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Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Breakthrough

This new Expansion Pack for the award-winning Medal of Honor Allied Assault puts you at the center of the most heroic moments of World War II. Go to war in all-new single-player and multiplayer campaigns that take you from the searing heat of North Africa to the treacherous mountains of Italy. Enhanced multiplayer features include new characters, weapons, vehicles, and an all-new multiplayer mode. Overcome overwhelming odds and the brutal terrain to emerge victorious in this explosive addition to the MOHAA experience.

• Eleven single-player levels ranging from the fight for Kasserine Pass in North Africa to the historic battle of Monte Battaglia in the heart of Italy.
• Nine new multiplayer levels including the monastery at Monte Cassino, the streets of Messina, and the beach at Anzio.
• Improved multiplayer battles, including the all-new Liberation mode in which defeated players become POWs who must be rescued by their teammates. Plus the popular Tug-of-War and Objective modes.
• Access to historically accurate World War II era weapons.
• Enter and exit vehicles at will including the M4 Sherman Tank.
• New soldier models, skins, and voices including American, British, and Italian troops.
• Sound effects by the award winning Medal of Honor sound design team at EALA.

Developer: Electronic Arts
Release date: 09/22/2003
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