You and another car will be on a road track with a wall separating you. The other five percent is racing against another single car. I said above that Rally makes up about 95 percent of the racing you’ll do. All it is, is you racing your car on a track with maybe a few obstacles and that’s it. There is a training mode but it doesn’t actually teach you anything. This is an actual line from your co-driver said during a race, “And right five short over crest into left four tightens three eighty.” WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN? WRC 9 doesn’t even bother to introduce concepts to new players either. Going completely overboard with terms, which only a real Rally fan would know or understand. So, your co-driver will say “Right, turn 5” and you’ll know need to make a right turn with a low difficulty soon. Basically, a 6-turn is extremely mild, 3 is somewhat average and a 1 turn is basically a hair-pin (extremely sharp) turn. Turn System Ahoy WRC 9/NaconĪs with the recent Dirt games, WRC 9 uses the 1-6 turn system, which I’m sure has a name but I don’t know it. A pop up appears with a quick time to show how behind or ahead of the next racer you are. Each route is divided into five sections and the only way you can even see how well you’re doing compared to another racer is by completing a section. There are no other cars on the road, it’s just you, all on your lonesome. The goal is to try to get to the end of the path as quickly as possible. It is basically a time-trial of you against the clock. Quite simply, Rally racing is about getting to the end of the route. So you’ll traverse rain-soaked Kenyan paths to the blizzard-like conditions of Sweden to sunny asphalt in Japan, and more. At least the races are on a variety of different surfaces and weather types. WRC 9 only has Rally racing for 95 percent of its entire gameplay loop. There is another race type, but Rally is almost all you’re going to see. The problem is, it’s a racing genre that I’m not a huge fan of and I find kind of tedious. WRC 9 is competently made, has some cool PS5 features, and is generally a decent racing simulation. Honestly, this is going to be a fairly short review. Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC Review: WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship And while I can say it’s a good game, it is decidedly not the racing experience I look for. So, of course, I was handed WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship to review. Finally, while there is a crap-ton of music and voice acting, even an untrained ear will be able to notice how compressed and unnatural they sound.Anytime a racing game comes down the pipeline I’m usually the one to take it because I have the most experience, I generally like them, and I can point out stuff others might not see. Due to the amount of times the game needs to unzip folders, its loading times are substantially longer than in other versions of the game, and I’m not even talking about the blistering fast next-gen versions which take advantage of their consoles’ SSD capabilities. Just like most Switch ports, WRC 9 is heavily compressed, and that results in a few extra issues. The smaller screen manages to hide some of WRC 9‘s inconsistencies. Just like with the visuals as a whole, the framerate issues are more apparent if you decide, for some reason, to play the game on docked mode instead of portable. Despite being all about quick reflexes and precision, rally cars don’t always run at ludicrous speeds, making the more limited framerate feel less egregious as a result. These caveats allow for WRC 9 to achieve a respectable framerate on the Switch, despite some occasional, albeit minor, hiccups. A rally game without a Lancia Delta isn’t a rally game, it’s an embarrassment.
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