Were you saving those tyres for a special occasion, lads? I thought I was doing the right thing using them to… drive faster than those other blokes.
The ridiculous bonus objectives have remained, though, and while the penalty for ignoring them or brushing them away is only slight, it’s still hard to swallow your current manufacturer reputation dropping after you win a rally, all because you had the audacity to… choose the best tyre compound for the job instead of an arbitrarily mandated one.
#WRC 9 REVIEW DRIVER#
It’s also still pretty incongruous that it’d be up to a newly-hired driver to personally rotate staff out for vacation time, although it’s less annoying this time because team-members don’t seem to tire as quickly in WRC 9.
#WRC 9 REVIEW SERIES#
WRC 9 seems mostly the same in this department, but to avoid déjà vu it probably could’ve done with a way for returning players of WRC 8 to skip past the feeder series and get straight to the WRC championship proper. WRC 8 arrived with a radically overhauled career mode that seemed to draw inspiration from both the Dirt and F1 games, turning WRC 7’s vanilla shuffle from one event to the next into something that made me feel as if I really had an actual race team around me.
New Zealand is fantastic too, particularly the sections that wrap their way along the North Island coastline, and Japan is an incredibly taxing and technical tarmac-based rally boasting a lot of raised sections of road flanked by streams and ditches that’ll totally ruin your day. Its not a DR 2.0 by any stretch of the imagination. and If I ever manage to get the FFB up to scratch Ill be even happier. Its a casual off road rally experience and for me it was worth buying the key. Its an OK game, that is entertaining for all its foibles. WRC9 in its current form is what WRC 8 should have been last year. In game while driving they just seem wishy washy. Poor and buggy especially if you turn off the menu music you will get misc clunks hisses and rattles on various random screens as it tries to clear its buffers. Single player mode : still the same spider web career. The UI is still clunky and doesn't really work overly well : The caveat being, one supposes that with the imminent release of the new ray tracing capable consoles this may just be the reason little has been done. and as has been said the WRC class cars are all pretty samey. The stock configs are poor in my opinion especially on the classics. You will have to manually set up your cars to get the best out of them. there does appear to be less of the CoG pivot of previous iterations. Physics - Again an improvement on 8 but for me, it still feels on the "arcadeyish" side. (That's before you start changing the cfg files) It often loses settings and can cause crashes if you have more than 4 or so saved presets. so it has taken me a lot of text file manipulation to get it to feel ok ish (for my TM wheel - but still not overly happy with it - I've a more tinkering to do. One thing to note is that the game is set up for Fanatec wheel hardware ( sponsors). placing it firmly, in my opinion, in the console port park.įFB - slight improvement. There is no UDP support for motion rigs and as you have said No VR this is a pure pancake game. ( so content wise - a lot of stuff for you money.)
#WRC 9 REVIEW UPGRADE#
Its an upgrade from WRC 8 you get 3 extra countries plus the upgrade of a couple of the tracks when released. Im basing this on wheel input with no assists. Have had the game a good couple of weeks now. Just to throw in my "couple o' pennies" Xenial. the interface does look literally identical.ġ6 countries straight up? Damn, CM take notice please. This one comes from a Dirt Rally background: And of course its career mode was much deeper than DR2's.īut at the same time a tonne of things were way worse in my eyes, such as the overall graphical quality, the sound everywhere, the control on a gamepad, the jokey crash physics, and the way it was both super claustrophobic and super polygony as soon as you got 2 metres off-track, whereas DR2 lets you really mess about with a lot of freedom.Ī couple of random small-name reviews I grabbed. WRC8 also had many more rally stages at first, out of the box (while admittedly no RX at all). I remember the stage layouts were vastly superior to DR2, in terms of both visual and geometrical diversity. Opinions on WRC 8 seemed to divide pretty sharply. So I noticed that WRC 9 dropped recently.
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