The opponents speed off as if Satan himself is coming for their souls, never making a mistake or spinning out so you’ll be driving by yourself again, but this time, you don’t have a co-pilot that keeps blabbing on about the corners (and no, you don’t get any music either). Rallycross is finally something that resembles a real race, but it still plays like crap. (Here you have to drive on a mountain with special cars that stick to the ground, it’s rather popular – Ed).

I don’t know what Hill Climb is, because I didn’t have enough money to buy a car for that type of races so… That’s just great.

Freeze when he went on a holiday to the North Pole! Hell, I hit a rock on the side of the road, which caused the car to careen through the air, doing an aileron roll right off the cliff side, and still the dude went “Right 2 into hairpin right.” In the same tone of voice! The man has more ice in his veins than Mr.

“Right 4 into Left 3, after that, Right 1, don’t cut 100.” Here? You get a co-pilot who constantly drones on in the same monotone voice: In most racing games, you get a kick-ass tune to listen to, to amp you up while you’re racing, to push you to go faster. If that sounds boring to you, then hold on because it gets worse. It’s just you vs the timer, no other racers in sight. Basically, you have to complete a track as fast as you can without totaling your car. Rally is exactly what it says on the can: it’s a Rally race. The game modes consist of Rally, Hill Climb and Rallycross.Ī game for the hard-core fans that leaves the beginners in the dirt. So either you grab a notepad to write all of this stuff down so you can study it before you hit the tracks, or you keep playing them over and over until something sticks. I expected that there would be a “Try this out” part after the explanation, but you just get catapulted back to the menu when it’s done. They are just voice-overs that tell you about “weight shifting” or “over/understeering” while a simulation plays in the background. While there are tutorials, they teach you nothing at all. Seriously, you NEED to have a thorough understanding of rally racing before you even attempt this game. Hyper-realism will probably please the fans of the genre but beginners like me get bombarded with stuff they can’t possibly comprehend. It’s not that I’m bad at race games, I’m actually quite decent at games like Need for Speed Underground 2/Most Wanted. This game has glowing reviews across the board and for the life of me, I don’t understand why. However, you’ll be able to deduce that this game would be something for you. If you’re an adept rally racer and you know your suspensions from your driveshafts, this review will probably read like blasphemy. If you’re reading this and think to yourself “Huh, that’s just like me!” then take this to heart. I have no experience with rally games or the rally sport in any way, shape or form. WARNING: This review is written from the viewpoint of a complete beginner.

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