Bracken Lee-Rudolph from ITF Gaming writes: The sport of rally racing has descended into proverbial obscurity over the past few years, and its gaming equivalents have followed a similar route - the Colin McRae franchise has descended into the DiRT franchise, which is more focused on destruction derbies akin to the FlatOut series, and titles such as MotorStorm tend to follow this trend. This leaves the WRC series, developed by veteran racing gurus, Milestone S.r.l. - an Italian development team whose racing credentials stretch back to 1995, with the release of the original Screamer title. However, does the title, published by Black Bean Games, live up to the incredibly technical and chaotic nature of the sport in question... Or does it swerve off the track, dragging the rally sub-genre into the abyss of destruction derbies and arcade racing? Let's find out!
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.
