![]() ![]() SEGA Saturn owners (just me?) will immediately recognise the unmistakable Lancia Delta and 1993 Toyota Celica from SEGA Rally Championship, and the Audi Quattro takes me back to the first Colin McRae Rally game on PS1. Whereas the bulk of WRC 10’s content is a result of iteration over previous years’ entries, its 50th Anniversary Mode is a brand-new addition which gives you access to a handful of classic rally cars. ![]() Let’s hope that future iterations leave the last-generation behind so the development team can focus on leveraging the newer hardware. It’s a solid-looking game, but not so good that you’d expect it to be pushing the PS5 hardware to its limits given that it’s also coming to PS4 and Xbox One. After a few shunts into a brick wall here, and a couple of skirmishes against a rocky cliff face there, your car will visibly appear worse for wear with bodywork left on the track, bumpers scraping the tarmac, and the co-driver’s door swinging open when you turn too sharply. Graphically, the damage model reflects the stats you’ll see in the menus extremely well. PSA: be sure to fix your headlights before a night stage This varies from completely replacing your brakes and suspension and various elements of bodywork, to performing incremental repairs to your engine, turbo and other mechanical components.Įach repair takes a set amount of time, while any time spent over the 45 minute budget will incur a penalty. Just like in the real sport, you have 45 minutes of in-game time to repair your vehicle between every other stage of an event. Braking too heavily while entering a corner will transfer weight to the front of your car and destabilise it as you turn, while visible puddles, potholes and trackside rocks will all convincingly hamper your current run – and possibly future runs, too, if you don’t have the resources to fix up all of the damage. There’s nothing spectacular about these – it’s purely more rally action in the style of the main events – but it’s nice to have the opportunity to jump into a different vehicle within the context of your current season, while also earning XP and cash which contributes towards your career earnings, without resorting to the inconsequential Quick Rally modes.īack in-game, and the cars themselves carry a genuine sense of weight that must be respected if you want to achieve the best time on the leaderboard. ![]() Rest and Team Building activities are filler activities which boost your stats and experience point tally albeit with no gameplay attached, while Anniversary races and Manufacturer Tryouts put you into the driver’s seat of a classic rally car, or a rival manufacturer’s present car, to compete in a one-off event. You’re also in complete control of your calendar and team’s schedule between the main Rally events. Plus, you’ll need to keep an eye on their personality traits as a daredevil engineer won’t work well with a cautious mechanic for instance, so it’s important to ensure that your salaried team members are working efficiently to enjoy maximum return on your investment. Kylotonn has done a good job at explaining what all of the options in the menu are for, but it’s a sure case of information overload – especially when only two or three menus actually require your attention between events. In addition to the four, increasingly challenging classes to compete in, the career mode tries to shoehorn in a lot of artificial depth with a plethora of RPG-like systems, to the detriment of its user experience. I’m not sure how I could’ve performed better, but it leaves me hoping that niggles like this will be fixed in an update in the near future. Despite consistently winning, I was met with messages from Ford – my team’s manufacturer – lamenting my poor performances and threatening to terminate my contract. This presented a point of confusion back in the main menu, where your in-game inbox receives messages between Rally events. Yet I was able to complete some of the Junior WRC stages some thirty seconds faster than my nearest competitor’s time – on 100% difficulty. I’ve dabbled in a bit of DIRT 5, but prior to that my previous experience with a game of this ilk was possibly SEGA Rally on the PS3, or WRC II Extreme on the PlayStation 2.
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