Slippery when… alwaysĪs I mentioned, rally racing involves slipping and sliding around the tracks. And on top of that, you can use these custom cars in the career mode, which is a really nice allowance. If you like the idea of crafting your own look, this one’s for you. Using it, you can make cars look almost any way you like via stickers, lettering, and more. It’s shockingly deep, allowing gamers to modify a suite of several dozen cars to their heart’s content. Debuting in WRC 10, the livery system is a customization tool, though that’s understating it. That might sound like a lot, but it’s actually really fun and a nice relaxed break from the tense races.Īside from all of that too, there is a huge new addition as well with the livery system. In these sections you’ll actually hire and fire, as well as control every aspect of a racing company. Almost a separate game unto itself, WRC 10’s crew and garage management is deep and complex. Playing counter to this though, is the crew management.
It’s almost like an action game melded with a racer, if that makes sense.Ī vintage rally car winds its way around a dangerous curve The results are races that will have you on edge every second.Įven straightaways, rare as they are, can easily trigger a massive screwup if you’re not paying total attention, sending you into a ditch. Instead, you’ll race on dirt, mud, gravel, and just about everything else. It’s rare that you’ll find yourself driving on asphalt. For starters, and this is probably the biggest deviation from genre norms, most rally racing is off-road. If you haven’t played a rally game in a while either, or are new to the style of gameplay, there are a few things you should know. That game was a stiff reeducation for me as goes the genre, although I did come to enjoy it quite a bit.Īnd much like last year’s model, I had a good time with WRC 10. In fact, it’d been years since I’d played a rally title at all before reviewing WRC 9 last fall. I tend to slide all over the place, and generally perform as bad as possible in almost any and every mode that they offer. To my recollection I have never, and I mean never, been able to get the hang of what’s a very specific style of racing play. When it comes to rally titles, and this is universally true across the boards, I am on another planet up from horrendous. Of course, there are various levels in between, though I’ll add that most of the time I skew towards the former. It varies from ‘I’m not that great’ to ‘I’m bloody awful’. Now I have various levels of stinking, so keep that in mind too. And while video game racing has come a long, long way since then, one thing hasn’t changed a bit – I pretty much stink at them. I have played racing games for a long time, probably since the original Pole Position on the Atari 2600.
World Rally Championship returns for a new season of play in WRC 10, from NACON and developer KT Racing.