Looks good to me. Dirt Rally with WRC license. Hopefully this is all real stages, no more made up, procedurally generated nonsense.
I was playing Dirt 2.0 tonight and got this pop up. As much As I like the Codemasters Rally franchise I wont be buying it until its fully patched and properly optimised. BTW I am pretty stoked and cannot wait for the new game..
Does this even drive like dirt rally 2.0? Because it feels to me like it s arcade driving rally like all other games, dirt rally 2.0 is the king of rally games
I loved the recent WRC games even if they were pretty much reskins each year and had that annoying camera judder unless the framerate was exactly 60 fps at 60/120 Hz or 120 fps at 120 Hz. The developers never bothered to fix that, maybe because it was a limitation of their engine. Still, the games were very good with lots of tracks and cars and a decent career mode even if, again, it never really evolved each year. Codemasters have a proven track records with racing and rally games so I think the franchise is in better hands. DiRT Rally 2 is considered the pinnacle of rally videogames and DiRT 5 was a lot of fun too, possibly more so than DiRT Rally 2, because it was more of an arcade racer than a pure simulation. My only concern is that EA are publishing it but then again the F1 games are still consistently good despite EA taking over the publishing. Just hope the game isn't full of loot boxes and other micro-transactions that EA have been infamous for!!!
I think WRC will probably lean more toward being a sim like DiRT Rally 2 but hopefully will have enough customisations to make it more accessible to people who want a more fun and less challenging experience. This is certainly true of the F1 games so I would imagine that this will be the same. Much as I loved DiRT Rally 2, that was a game that leaned heavily on the sim side with no options to scale down the experience to make it less challenging to play like, say, DiRT 4 or 5. There's no reason though why any racing game cannot cater for the causal masses and hardcore enthusiasts.
Yeah, it did look a bit like NFS with a Dirt skin on. But even so I am sure codies will make good of this no matter how hard EA has twisted their arm up their backs.
Car list and a few screenshots https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/ea-sports-wrc/wrc/news/ea-sports-wrc-car-list
I'm 100% preordering this! and i never preorder!. Last time i preordered was Mafia 3 in 2016 and i thought i couldn't lose! but we know how that turned out
This game should be some great added value to EA Play Pro (and a couple of months after release Game Pass as well).
I remember one time, I got the bug and took my volvo V40 estate for a rally and within no time at all I broke all the springs. I went home with a low rider.
Yes, dying in a mangled car or killing 20 spectators is very manly indeed I'm honestly bored of this Group B fetishism in rally games. It's been almost half a century, give it a rest already. How many more times do we need to have a damn Quattro and RS2000 in a rally game that takes place in WRC 2023 season.
It’s the SEGA Rally car! Oh the memories, the sheer joy of playing that game for hours on end on my Saturn… at a glorious 20 fps. Those were the days when I didn’t even know what framerate was never mind cared about it.
I think its rather cool the Saturn has developed a cult following, people finally appreciating the system for what it was and having a quality library of games. Even now we still get English translations to games that never made it to UK that show the system what is was capable of. Only if Sega had a better management team at the time
@Darren Hodgson If you did not know that is the best car from the original Colin McRea Dirt. Yeah, I also remember the SEGA Rally car!
No, don't think it will use unreal. @ramthegamer What do you mean the the 205 is the best. Who told you that. He he.
