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This is a game where a backseat driver does better sitting next to you telling you where to go, trust me. No matter how you play, there’s more than enough here to keep you occupied for a long time. The game has a lot of content with over 100 courses, 50 teams, and 14 rallies spanning the globe. Season Mode drops the management stuff and just lets you race, you can practice on a separate practice course any time, and there are split screen modes to play as well as online and offline modes. You can go with the real drivers or create your own (three profile slots are here) and Career Mode’s tutorial comes highly recommended if you choose that route. Between variable weather, fiddling with your cars, your overall mood, and if you’re playing the deep Career Mode, expect the intricacies of running a rally team to test other skills from managing finances to picking the right team members to work on your cars and drivers.
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Those record times will eventually be beaten, but the time it takes to fully master this on some courses will take a while. There’s real challenge here and if, after time, you get that zen-like concentration thing going where you’re running a course without hitting something or getting time penalties, only to find that you’re a second off the record, well, those are cases where you try again. There are the much harder Weekly challenges to do, but you’ll want some mileage under your belt, as these are pretty difficult events. Still, the game’s Season and Practice modes will be your friend for a while as you settle in. but it’s a literal learning curve taking in the pace notes and reading the track ahead while not hitting something because you’re trying to do it while driving a car at high speed with a co-driver notes near-constant directions at you. New players to this on Easy can indeed make it around the special stage or a few rallies with some effort. That said, one has to give the still mighty Richard Burns Rally it’s own pedestal for what it brought to the virtual rally game.Įven when set to the easiest mode and with every assist on, the game still requires near flawless or even perfect mastering of its courses and weather conditions. But that sticking to the real deal thing is for me, what makes a good rally game and WRC 8 makes for the most the best WRC experience since the five great WRC titles by the late Evolution Studios way back on the PlayStation 2. Granted, like the two DiRT Rally games, this is the sort of simulation that’s going to be daunting to novices no matter how many assists they turn on. Thankfully, those options also include a number of tweaks to make the experience a good deal more flexible to new players. If you’re going too fast, that simple turn up ahead is a bear, but there’s no bear at the end of that turn, fortunately.Ĭodemasters’ DiRT franchise might be better looking (the terrain deformation adds to the realism) and better known to some, but the outside a PC mod, the more authentic to the WRC season licenses, courses, drivers, and cars here will be the way to go for fans who enjoy the sport and want the deepest dive into it.