RPS - Largely irrelevant preamble: I used to have a wheel and pedals – lovely, plush Logitech ones – but they did not survive the transition to my latest office. Partly because this current research crater is inside a shoe, but also because these days I only really play about one racing game a year, and then only for a couple of weeks at most. Don’t get me wrong: rallying is super, and I even watch the real deal on TV, but gaming for me doesn’t tend to put me behind a wheel. A few weeks of commitment seems like it’ll be true of WRC 3, too, which – speaking as someone with a casual interest in racing – is shaping up to be the sort of dependable rallying experience that I enjoy enough to put time into. A pleasingly predictable thing, without any nasty meta-game surprises.
TeamVVV writes: "Hot on the heels of our WRC 5 vs Sebastien Loeb Rally EVO comparison we thought we'd now pit the nine-time world rally champion endorsed game up against WRC 3.
What's particularly interesting here is that both games were developed by the same team – Milestone. Of course Milestone have since lost the WRC license to Kylotonn Games but don't rule them out bidding for it back in the future."
YouTube's member 'nfsking2000' has created an interesting tribute to rally games, in which we get to see the actual evolution of this genre from its MS-DOS days to its current-gen ones.
awesome!!! thanks for making me realize how disgusting this gen was as far as rally games go...
colin mcrae's
richard burns's
WRC's
topgear n64
are some of my favorites
WRC this gen stuck to its roots even though milestone took over they really improved and i cant wait for WRC4 on the VITA <---- now thats evolution : )
The last great rally game was Colin McRae Rally 2005. Everything after that, went towards the arcade racer market. Now that being said, due to where I live I have never been able to play the WRC series.
Richard Burns Rally is still considered the best rally game ever made by many hardcore rally game fans.
If Milestone could tune its car handling model and polish its visual output, the next version of WRC could help us forget that Codemasters has abandoned the world’s most mesmerizing motorsport.
