Menus are clean and crisp, presentation is decent and thankfully load times are relatively quick.
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There’s no rewinds and you’ll constantly need to be paying attention to co-driver calls and the road ahead to navigate successfully around challenging bends, surfaces and environments.įrom a visual perspective WRC 8 has also come a long way from where the series were earlier in the 00s. While the game doesn’t seem as punishing as DiRT Rally has been, there’s still no hand-holding to be seen here. Even after a couple of hours I still struggle to place even above halfway through the ladder, with both human error and penalties bringing my final time down lower than my AI rivals.
Chalk it down to inexperience or perhaps old age, but gone are the days of turning on a rally game for the first time and finishing an event on pole by a considerable margin. Both rally enthusiasts and racing fans will enjoy working their way through the official roster of vehicles and locations that the game has to offer, and as has been the standard of rally titles of late, WRC 8 certainly offers a challenge for those willing to accept it.
The above is standard, but how does WRC 8 play? From a gameplay-perspective, it does quite well. Players either returning to WRC 8 or joining the franchise for the first time will recognise the standard game modes on offer this time around – from single-player career/championship modes, training and quick race, and the inclusion of both online multiplayer and split-screen. When it comes to most real-world-based racers the offering is fairly consistent year on year, but also across franchises. Firstly, is WRC 8 finally a DiRT killer, but perhaps more importantly, does it need to be? So there are really just two questions that we need to get to the bottom of. So it therefore makes sense for the team at Big Ben to put themselves on the line and ask whether their latest offering in WRC’s almost 20-year history has finally come out on-top as the definitive rally title for the current generation. Whilst realism hasn’t typically been a focus of the developers, there’s no denying they’ve often nailed the overall package in the genre. It asked, quite simply, “Could WRC dethrone DiRT this year?”Įver since my first venture into the rally discipline with Colin McRae DiRT over a decade ago, Codemasters has been one of the leaders in the racing scene - often setting the bar in terms of gameplay and visuals. There was one question that stood out in the first email I received about WRC 8 prior to its release.
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