The usual game modes are present in WRC 9 as well. Choosing the best car that suits your driving style and fine-tuning it for the course ahead will help you get up those worldwide leaderboards, that are viewable at the end of every course. All our customizable to your liking, which makes WRC 9 a Car enthusiast’s dream. From the Transmission system to the tire type or even to the gauges of your front and rear breaks. Speaking of control, there is a deep well of customization options for every vehicle. Each one of these vehicles differ not just in looks and style, but in control as well. Bonus vehicles and my personal favorite – the Legendary Cars.
There are also different categories to choose from. You’ll be conquering these courses in one of the many available teams and rally cars available. You can feel the amount of care that the team behind WRC 9 put into these courses and it just adds to the overall majesty of the game. As your driving along you’ll be seeing Windmills, Bystanders, Helicopters, Village Houses and so much more. I also cannot emphasize enough how good each one of these courses look. Each, presenting different challenges.ĭriving through the snowy streets of Sweden could see you slipping through corners, The narrow Gravel roads of Portugal could wear on your tires and the Safari trail in Kenya could distract you with its beautiful horizon. You’ll be doing all of this practicing in one the many real-life rally courses available, which span all across the globe. This game requires practice and lots of it. WRC 9 isn’t just some other racing game where you can just breeze through maps in one go. It will take some getting used to taking your finger off the acceleration trigger, but learning to balance braking and accelerating through a very narrow turn is exhilarating in its own right. There is more of an emphasis on control over speed. While it does feel exhilarating to be cruising over 100 mph on a freeway, WRC 9 refreshingly takes its pedal off the metal. This is the trend with modern racing titles. Damage your vehicle enough and you’ll get the DQ’d, forcing you to start the course all over again. WRC 9 truly captures the penalties of lapses in concentration with five seconds added to your time whenever you veer off course for too long and even a whopping 10 seconds for resetting due to a crash.
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Drivers and Navigators are required to be one hundred percent focused for the entirety of the course or risk losing precious time or even crashing. Rally Car Racing could very well be the world’s toughest sport. WRC 9 is as punishing as it is beautiful, truly capturing what it feels like to be a World Rally Championship Driver. Long story short, I crossed the finish line with a car littered with bumps and scratches, three minutes over the expected finishing time. Having grown up with the arcade classics and modern driving franchises, I rated myself as pretty good or intermediate in difficulty terms. Early morning sunlight pierces through trees and the light also presents properly for weather conditions such as when it’s raining or the sunlight is poking through clouds.At the start of WRC 9, you are asked to rate your proficiency in driving games. Along with the presentation of the cars, the game possesses some great lighting effects for time-of-day moments. Similarly, dust and mud effects on the car and windshield are accumulated organically over the course of a race. Beading rain on the windshield is realistic, as are the streaking effects of windshield water when the wipers are turned on.
Realistic, beautiful cars are well rendered and, depending on the view taken, weather effects are too.
All this is accomplished while keeping the frame rate above the mandatory 60 fps for racing games in order to keep input responses of the game in sync with your driving inputs. It’s a coding balancing act between those two forces. From a design perspective this simplifies things and allows the freed up game overhead of not showing a multi-car on-screen moment to be used for frame rate optimization and the overall racing environment. Rally racing is unique from most racing where the focus is on a single car. VR racers will also be disappointed to find that no VR support has been added. The graphics from WRC 8 return so the game continues to look great but I could’t see any improvements from WRC 8.
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