Official WRC Game by Milestone/Black Bean

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It may not be perfect, but looks good to me especially with the in-car views. I'll support it, I'm sure future releases will be far better. These guys put a lot of effort in the short time they had.
 
Well, had a good thorough go of the demo and my initial impressions are good.

Handling does feel more biased to sim, feels quite like V8 SuperstarsNext Challenge really. Graphics are decent enough, some nice touches like the water on the car after a splash.

Damage seems good, you can really beat cars up visually and the mech damage is all there albeit a bit slack, even on the hardest setting. Track damage is present, put the cars through wood fences more than once.

Main concerns are the stages seem a bit wide, still a challenge but abit wide, and personally I find the co-driver a bit irritating.

Demo gives you the Focus or C4 on a Jordan or Finland stage.

Definatley gonna get this now, feels nice to play and has exceeded my expectations.
 
Well apparently us 'mericans are too gosh darn unsophisticated enough to understand this type of fancy pants racin' where they do more than turn left all day... demo not on Xbox Live in the USA.

Seeing as how there isn't even a USA release date mention on the WRC website, it probably won't be available anytime soon, if ever. Nice... guess I'll just go back to watching monster trucks and wrestling like all us Americans do...

Guess GT5 and Dirt 3 will get my money instead.
 
It comes out Oct 8th. I agree the lack of official info and delaying of things has not helped the release of this game. Dont be hateful lol We have an american in the WRC now and we have Rally America. Though I would certainly love to see WRC come here. PC will be on 24th and PSN is 29th, for the demo.
 
strtgng
Well apparently us 'mericans are too gosh darn unsophisticated enough to understand this type of fancy pants racin' where they do more than turn left all day... demo not on Xbox Live in the USA.

Seeing as how there isn't even a USA release date mention on the WRC website, it probably won't be available anytime soon, if ever. Nice... guess I'll just go back to watching monster trucks and wrestling like all us Americans do...

Guess GT5 and Dirt 3 will get my money instead.
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I'm guessing it has more to do with the fact it's a rather small company and WRC isn't exactly a hot title at the moment, which is why Dirt has to put all the other crap in it just to get it to sell decently. It wouldn't make much sense to bring it here only to sell a few copies, those who want it will just import it, basically the same situation with SSC.
 
I really want to download the demo but the XBL marketplace keeps timing out. The servers must be really busy due to the release of Halo.
 
For god's sake milestone just do a real rally game and don't give a **** about american market.. not like codemaster that destroy a legendary game like colin mcrae rally filling it with american's ****** stuffs like trucks, buggy, x games and that idiot called Ken block.. the paper boy is the worst driver of wrc.. but hey!! he has DC shoes and it always drink monster energy, let's do a racing game... who cares about rally.


here: http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamVVV

it's full of wrc gameplay, just scroll ont he right.
 
Looks like I will have to import this one.

Anyone know of any good online shops to import from? I have heard good things about gameplay.co.uk but never had to use them before.
 
paulpg87
...not like codemaster that destroy a legendary game like colin mcrae rally filling it with american's ****** stuffs like trucks, buggy, x games and that idiot called Ken block.. the paper boy is the worst driver of wrc.. but hey!! he has DC shoes and it always drink monster energy, let's do a racing game... who cares about rally.
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Hello Golfman.
 
MildAshers
Well, had a good thorough go of the demo and my initial impressions are good.

Handling does feel more biased to sim, feels quite like V8 SuperstarsNext Challenge really. Graphics are decent enough, some nice touches like the water on the car after a splash.

Damage seems good, you can really beat cars up visually and the mech damage is all there albeit a bit slack, even on the hardest setting. Track damage is present, put the cars through wood fences more than once.

Main concerns are the stages seem a bit wide, still a challenge but abit wide, and personally I find the co-driver a bit irritating.

Demo gives you the Focus or C4 on a Jordan or Finland stage.


Definatley gonna get this now, feels nice to play and has exceeded my expectations.
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Good to hear the physics are ok. They look pretty unrealistic from the videos but its a different story when you actually play i guess.

I was thinking the same about the wide stages. WRC is all about the tight roads and getting close to walls/trees/rocks etc so hopefully not all the stages are like this. The stages are the real life ones are they not?
 
paulpg87
For god's sake milestone just do a real rally game and don't give a **** about american market.. not like codemaster that destroy a legendary game like colin mcrae rally filling it with american's ****** stuffs like trucks, buggy, x games and that idiot called Ken block.. the paper boy is the worst driver of wrc.. but hey!! he has DC shoes and it always drink monster energy, let's do a racing game... who cares about rally.


here: http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamVVV

it's full of wrc gameplay, just scroll ont he right.
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👎 No need for such words :yuck:
 
I kinda agree, the tracks look pretty wide. Also, the co-pilot's voice is just too choppy, no smoothness at all...
 
TiZzla
Good to hear the physics are ok. They look pretty unrealistic from the videos but its a different story when you actually play i guess.

I was thinking the same about the wide stages. WRC is all about the tight roads and getting close to walls/trees/rocks etc so hopefully not all the stages are like this. The stages are the real life ones are they not?
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The stages are only based on the real life locations, they are not direct copies of actual real life stages.

Anyway, I Just got this downloaded at the weekend, and after taking an age to figure out how best to set up the Fanatec PWTS,as in that you actually seem to have to turn off the vibration setting from the ingame menu to get the wheel free enough to play the game without needing to be Mr Universe to turn the wheel, but once sorted, it actually plays and feels rather good.

The graphics aren't that great at all if im honest, from the bonnet and in car views at least, anything beyond twenty feet in front of your car is a blur fest as the sharpness/ definition doesnt come into play until it reaches this point, and is a bit off a let down in the overall experience visually.

As for the width of the stages, The Finland stage while being rated in game as 3 out of 5 difficulty is for the most part pretty fast and freeflowing but the road width does vary constantly throughout the stage and when trying on Max difficulty to get fastest times requires precision driving.
The quickest route on this fast stage is quite narrow, although there is a fair amount that you can go off the road, running through the flora is not the fastest route.

The Jordan stage however is rated as 5 out of 5 for difficulty and on the whole is much much tighter, far more technical and filled with more hazards.

As for the sounds, The Co driver does love to slag you off, if your way off pace or having a crash fest, and it is best to set his calls to at least the Advanced setting to make good use of the information he provides.
I played with headphones and found the engine noise slightly too quiet at times to fully hear what it was doing clearly at all times, and there doesnt appear to be an option to increase it.

Despite all this i easily whiled away 3 hours of a sunday afternoon trying to better my times.
With the wheel finally set and game on max difficulty with no aids you get a really good feel for the handling and the weight of your ride, getting your scandanavian flicks going feels very satisfying.
You can tweak the cars handling to the stage and your driving style with a few sliders from the pre stage area and although there are only about 8 settings to play with each seems to have a feelable affect to the way the car handles even with only the most subtle adjustments.

Overall despite the fact that its a bit rough visually, I got quite a good feel with the demo, its just a shame the car selection seems very limitied with the official WRC lineup these days, and would have hoped to have had a good few cars from years gone bye to mix it up a bit.
Although i will be waiting for the PS3 and PC Demo before making a final decision on the title, as im sure the wheels will be implemented better on the more open platforms, i will definately be looking to pick this up and add to the collection.
 
Tommi
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There's already one out for XB360 in Europe, PC is September 24th and PS3 is September 29th.👍
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Ahh sweet 👍
Can't wait to try it with the DFGT. I'm loving playing Dirt 2 with it!
 
I have seen lots of videos, and all the tracks are so wide compared to the real WRC tracks!
That's disappointing...
and you can also see that you don't have to slide and use rally tricks such as scandinavian flick or powersliding to go fast...
I don't believe this game has realistic physics, richard burns rally remains the best.
However, I need to play it with my g25 before saying the last word
 
GTXLR
The stages are only based on the real life locations, they are not direct copies of actual real life stages.

Anyway, I Just got this downloaded at the weekend, and after taking an age to figure out how best to set up the Fanatec PWTS,as in that you actually seem to have to turn off the vibration setting from the ingame menu to get the wheel free enough to play the game without needing to be Mr Universe to turn the wheel, but once sorted, it actually plays and feels rather good.

The graphics aren't that great at all if im honest, from the bonnet and in car views at least, anything beyond twenty feet in front of your car is a blur fest as the sharpness/ definition doesnt come into play until it reaches this point, and is a bit off a let down in the overall experience visually.

As for the width of the stages, The Finland stage while being rated in game as 3 out of 5 difficulty is for the most part pretty fast and freeflowing but the road width does vary constantly throughout the stage and when trying on Max difficulty to get fastest times requires precision driving.
The quickest route on this fast stage is quite narrow, although there is a fair amount that you can go off the road, running through the flora is not the fastest route.

The Jordan stage however is rated as 5 out of 5 for difficulty and on the whole is much much tighter, far more technical and filled with more hazards.

As for the sounds, The Co driver does love to slag you off, if your way off pace or having a crash fest, and it is best to set his calls to at least the Advanced setting to make good use of the information he provides.
I played with headphones and found the engine noise slightly too quiet at times to fully hear what it was doing clearly at all times, and there doesnt appear to be an option to increase it.

Despite all this i easily whiled away 3 hours of a sunday afternoon trying to better my times.
With the wheel finally set and game on max difficulty with no aids you get a really good feel for the handling and the weight of your ride, getting your scandanavian flicks going feels very satisfying.
You can tweak the cars handling to the stage and your driving style with a few sliders from the pre stage area and although there are only about 8 settings to play with each seems to have a feelable affect to the way the car handles even with only the most subtle adjustments.

Overall despite the fact that its a bit rough visually, I got quite a good feel with the demo, its just a shame the car selection seems very limitied with the official WRC lineup these days, and would have hoped to have had a good few cars from years gone bye to mix it up a bit.
Although i will be waiting for the PS3 and PC Demo before making a final decision on the title, as im sure the wheels will be implemented better on the more open platforms, i will definately be looking to pick this up and add to the collection.
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Good sum up.

With older cars, I believe there is an 08 Impreza in the game and agroup B pack to be released soon after release.
 
tinram
What would be the best online EU store to get this from if i wanted it imported to the US?
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The biggest problem with importing this or any other game (as I did with SCC) is any DLC won't be available for you unless you go to the trouble of setting up an account in the region the disc came from and paying for the DLC in that currency (your US credit card address won't match the one you "live at" in the region you selected, so it won't work).

Importing is okay if you don't care about DLC - but I want those Group B cars!
 

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