Dominic Sheard: "The past few years has offered off-road racing fans a limited amount of games to get excited for, especially when looking for the adrenaline excitement that comes with driving fast through muddy lanes, dusty fields and icy roads, a selection of ground types usually associated with rallysport. The official FIA World Rally Championship games have been decent attempts to bring the motorsport to our consoles, but they often fall short of greatness that people who adored Colin McRae Rally or Richard Burns Rally expect to see in a rally game. The series took a break last year, as the original developers of the first four previous generation games, Milestone S.r.l., passed the reigns onto new developer, Kylotonn Games, a studio that doesn't exactly have a curriculum vitae for developing great racing games. With the looming shadow of Dirt: Rally, a game from Codemasters that finally puts that series' focus back to rallying, and a new game (Sébastien Loeb Rally Evo) from the original developers of WRC, can WRC5 bring the fuel to spark up a battle with those games? Or is Kylotonn's attempt just going to be another decent, but forgettable, rally game?"
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "The racing genre has always felt like a perfect fit on handhelds, thanks to offering bite-sized sessions and being able to hide technical flaws behind blistering speeds and enclosed environments. It provides a large amount of variety too, from immersive sims to light-hearted kart racers (and my personal favourite, drift-heavy arcade racers!), meaning there’s usually something for everyone to enjoy.
Anticipation was high that the Vita would follow in the PSP’s footsteps as a handheld offering an unrivalled selection of racers, from muddy WRC titles to the clean racing lines of Gran Turismo. Beyond the initial months things didn’t quite pan out like this, but there’s still a nice spread of games available to cater to anyone’s tastes – and thanks to the addition of backwards-compatibility with PSP and PS1, the Vita ends up with possibly the largest selection of any console in the last 10 years, even if it's not all running natively on the hardware."
Neil writes: "Bet you thought all you had to worry about this week were the numerous new game announcements and trailers showing previously unseen footage eh? Well, you'd be wrong as even though E3 is rocking on regardless, the Xbox Live Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale is continuing to deliver bargains galore to Xbox gamers. But what are the very best and very worst of the deals on the table between the 12th-18th June 2018? We take a little look."
Neil writes: "Looking to get dirty? The WRC Collection on Xbox One promises to get you dirtier than ever as it brings together no less than three full on rally experiences."
