My favourite were the extreme weather events because I’m a sucker for snow and I haven’t had a decent bit of snow at home for a few years. There are some special events, though, and they spice things up a touch. Speaking of which, if you’re not familiar with rally racing, you don’t actually compete head-to-head, but instead you’re racing against the times set by other drivers. Throwing cars over bumps and drifting them around deadly hairpins isn’t easy, but once you’ve got the feel for the way the game handles each car, it’s very satisfying and it becomes a little too natural to throw caution to the wind every now and again, at the expense of precious seconds on the clock. To be fair, I’ve never understood what all those little phrases really mean – does anyone? – but there is a visual aid that gives you a rough idea what the next part of the course will be, so don’t worry about not understanding the lingo.Ĭar handling is a fundamental part of racing games, and WRC 9 doesn’t disappoint. It did, and by the end of the season, I had no trouble throwing my beat-up motor over 4-long lefts, wobbly jump 69, and the other gobbledegook that my co-driver was constantly screaming at me. I started from the bottom with the expectation that it would be easier and allow me time to get familiar with the game’s car handling and tracks. You’ve the choice to start down in the rookie championship with the WRC Junior, or you can head straight to the top and see what those guys and gals make of you. WRC 9 gives you options and more than I could have guessed. I bought that at full price and didn’t regret it, even if my stomach did.īut I’m not against trying new things, and my new found love for Truck Racing is proof of that, so I gave WRC 9 a fair shot, and I’ve come out quite surprised, as usual, to find that I don’t need the flash of a AAA production or the pointless grind for meaningless trinkets to have a good time. Rally isn’t my strong point and I’ve never gone out of my way to play a rally game, apart from when Dirt 2.0 got that PSVR update. I love arcade-sims, like the Forza Horizon Series, or Grid. Now, like in other racing games before it, WRC 9 would not normally be my go-to racing game. WRC 9 is the officially licensed rally game for the FIA Rally Championship, meaning what you get here is the full-fat experience, with the extra fat being licsend cars, manufacturers, and drivers, as well as interpretations of real-life rally race tracks. That hasn’t happed with WRC 9 and I don’t think it’s in any danger of landing on my infamous Pile of Crap that I’ve had to review over the past decade. Well, that’s not necessarily true – I did play one of the PS Vita games, but I dumped it after half an hour, declaring it crap. Somehow – either through fate or misfortune – I’ve not gotten around to the WRC series, and WRC 9 is my first taste of what this series is all about. Not that I mind, but I’ve played just about all of them over the course of this generation. I have the uncanny knack for being the one lumped with driving games when it comes to review duties.
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