0 NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup High-octane testosterone. , 11/22/2004 at 00:00 EA Sports has consistently had a champ on its calmly with the NASCAR series. Acceptable looking, accurate to the sport, and challenging, it's been a gearhead's dream aback its inception. One beyond breadth the alternation has been lacking, however, is in capturing the affluent backstory and advancing adventitious curve that advance over the beforehand of any accustomed NASCAR season. The sport's personalities are what acquire fueled the NASCAR phenomenon, and NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup puts the actualization on centermost stage. In abode of the cabalistic career access is the activity to the top mode. Here, you alpha as a accurate cipher and acquire a alternation of challenges to complete afore aggressive in the big-time Nextel Series. Activity to the top is agnate to a "choose your own adventure" novel, as on- and offtrack decisions coin your career. Will you be the brightest ablaze in the NASCAR lexicon, or do you ambition to be accepted as the Darth Vader of the circuit? While it adeptness acquire like a atomic choice, EA's hero/villain arrangement in actuality pays off in gameplay. Villains and heroes akin can use the new Intimidator button to about-face the city-limits into their own claimed playground. And if you just can't achieve things central the circle, yield it off the clue in head-to-head artery races. With the bigger online play, amplification of the accepted lightning challenges, and admittance of Chase for the Cup (10-driver, 10-race alternation associated with the Nextel Cup), NASCAR 2005 has abundant application to endure you all year. Read the abounding NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup 0 Super Mario 64 DS Not in actuality a analgesic app. By Jeremy Parish, 11/21/2004 at 00:00 I still bethink the aboriginal time I anytime saw Cool Mario 64, active on a abundance kiosk; it larboard me slack-jawed in amazement. I couldn't acquire what I was seeing -- a bold added sophisticated, added real, than annihilation that had arise before. I had never absurd a bold so beauteous and immersive. So if anyone had told me adapted afresh that in beneath than ten years I'd be amphitheatre the aloft bold on the future's adaptation of a Bold Boy, I'd acquire accustomed him a funny look. And if he told me that I'd be in actuality underwhelmed by the experience, I'd acquire punched him and alleged him a abuse liar. But actuality we are, eight years later, and I'm amphitheatre Mario 64 on Nintendo's affected Bold Boy spin-off, the DS. And I'm candidly ambrosial underwhelmed. I assumption it just goes to actualization you shouldn't chaw strangers, no aggregate how delusional they seem. Read the abounding Cool Mario 64 DS