While I know I’m not the most experienced racer, initially I thought the controls were a bit too touchy. I don’t understand all the lingo, but with the perils of the road at play, his instruction as well as a handy GPS-like arrow helped me know what was ahead. Speaking of loneliness, you’re never completely by yourself, as your friendly co-driver is there to give you instructions as you drive. While it’s a bit odd to me, and somewhat lonely on the track, it makes sense given the narrowness of the courses. Instead, it’s all about shaving every precious second off of your timed run in order to beat the times your sometimes imaginary opponents put up. For those not familiar, you won’t be racing a bunch of other cars. When it comes to the gameplay, I have to say it runs well and does what it needs to do.
Wrc 9 reviews series#
This game looks like it belongs on the Xbox Series X, taking complete advantage of the 4K resolution to make this one of the best looking and sounding racing launch titles on the console. While it is a bit annoying to me, the popping popcorn-like sound of rolling to a stop on asphalt shows attention to the little things, and it just rounds out an impressive visual and audical package. This extends from the glare of your headlights to the flare up of your exhaust, conveying the time and care put into WRC 9. Kylotonn has done a phenomenal job populating these tracks, and they’ve even added a photo mode so you can capture the beauty of them.īesides this, the detail of the cars themselves are incredible.There’s a glossiness to the car, a whine to the engine you don’t always get with every game. The courses just feel alive, even if the NPCs cheering you on aren’t as detailed. Each location feels fresh, from the hills of Kenya to the cold mountains of Sweden. The snow-covered tracks shine from the glare of the sun on the snow, dirt roads crackle under tire and kick up dust, and the countryside is teaming with foliage. Given this is an offroad style of racing game, the courses involve the great outdoors in different environments and with many different weather conditions. Of course, with simulation comes detail and WRC 9 is flush with it. I’ll probably say this a lot throughout this writing, but this game is definitely for driving game connoisseurs over newcomers.
The best comparison may be The Sims versus Civilization VI, one is goofy with plenty to discover, and the other takes time and effort to master. WRC 9 leans heavily into it’s simulation branding, and while it’s still fun to play, takes itself so seriously it’s tiring to learn. I have no idea what camber is, I’m not always sure what rally car to choose, and boy did they make difficulty levels tough to understand in making them numerical with 50 being the lowest. I’m new to WRC and somewhat confused with the systems at play. Now here’s where it takes an unfavorable turn, and this is as mentioned before the crux of this review. I never thought going into this I would be looking over meteorologists for my crew, but here we are. You are doing everything from scheduling events, paying for car repair, buying skills from a skill tree of all things, and even picking members of your team. The amount of depth here is shocking, and probably deeper than I’ve seen in any sporting franchise, including the likes of Madden or NBA 2K. For someone who loves WRC or is into this series, you have to be salivating over the options in front of you.
There is a bunch of information in front of you in the career hub, and the amount of tasks available are astounding. This is a good thing, since I had no clue what I would be doing otherwise. They point you to a specific thing or action, then only let you do that. Let me start with this, the career mode does begin by doing everything for you, similar to how I’ve seen mobile games handle the navigation. But for every question I thought I had going in, ten more appeared when I came to the career hub. I thought it’d be a good place to start, as well as a place to hopefully get bearings on how the series works. Now, here’s where things become complex as I figured I’d give the career mode a try. Pre-orders of the Call of Duty Zombies Ray Gun Replica are now available
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