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IndyCar Series 2005

2004 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ22019754 ↗
Source-derived summary

IndyCar Series 2005 is a racing simulator developed by Codemasters. It is the sixteenth officially licensed IndyCar video game. The game was released in 2004 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and is based on the 2003 IndyCar Series season.

Reception

The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “IndyCar Series 2005” as 2004 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2004, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where IndyCar, Series and video can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2004 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22019754. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2004 and 2003.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “IndyCar Series 2005” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.