![]() In its most basic form, career mode allows players to follow the general rally calendar and compete in weekend events to win the WRC title, and it intersperses the base career mode with special events that allow the player to take control of a variety of cars from different manufacturers and time periods. The real joy in WRC 9 is to be found in investigating the ins and outs of the career mode.įor the most part, WRC 9 players who have an interest in this game will spend most of their time exploring the career mode. ![]() This nuance isn’t isolated within the car physics either. What this does is create a nuance to approaching individual races that players who are willing to put in the time and effort to learn will find a great deal of enjoyment. This mainly comes in the form of specific attention to suspension, braking and what the developers call ‘mass transfer’ to faithfully recreate not only the individual feeling of each car type on offer in the game but also the differences to handling and performance that would result in the tweaks players can make to the set up of their car. The developers have clearly put a lot of work into improving the way the cars handle and feel between WRC 9 and WRC 8. Fans of racing games will bemoan the days where they could pick a motorsport almost at will and find a decent game to cater to their interest, so it’s nice to see that we once more appear to have a growing presence in quality racing titles. It has a dedication to recreating the sport that hasn’t been seen in some time, and although this may prove to be too much wading into the weeds for some, for others this will be a welcome and fresh addition to the racing genre as a whole. Happily, this reality is taking a short hiatus as WRC 9 FIA World Championship, at least on the face of it, seems to have been offered the time, attention, and budget to make this the best outing in the rally genre for years.įrom a gameplay perspective, this is the most faithful rally game we have seen in some time. Although the Dirt games are fantastic in their own right, it was always somewhat of a shame that a ‘proper’ rally game wasn’t really available, and when they did come along, they lacked the budget to make them worth paying attention to. ![]() Wrc 9 fia world rally championship gameplay series#It might well be the rose-tinted spectacles of youth, but it feels like the old Colin McRae Rally games for the original PlayStation were very much a mainstream kind of deal, but as time has passed, these games seem to have lost their popularity, proven by the Colin McRae Rally series morphing into Colin McRae: Dirt and then more simply becoming Dirt as it left traditional rallying behind in favour for one-off events with an array of different cars and race types. ![]() There are no two ways about it that the rally game genre is somewhat of a niche sphere these days. ![]()
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