#WRC 8 FOR SWITCH REVIEW SERIES#

Restarting the event also showed up another oddity. I restarted the event multiple times and had the same problem each time. They weren’t broken as per the event, but just not turned on at all.

They’re deceptively tough.īut that’s where I discovered my first bug, starting an extreme event at night and there’s no headlights. Those last ones will put you into a car in some state of disrepair on a difficult track and you’ve got to nurse it to the finish line. There’s also additional events you can take part in, such as training days, rest days (your staff will thank you) and extreme events. You’ll have the usual engineers that you’ll need for repairing your car mid-event, but you’ll also have to hire meteorologists to get a good idea what the weather will be like in the upcoming event (remember, it’s dynamic now!) which will give you a keen idea of what strategies to take into each stage. Speaking of improving your team, that’s something you’re going to want to be doing, since your team boosts your abilities in rallies in numerous ways.

#WRC 8 FOR SWITCH REVIEW SERIES#

It’s very similar to Codemasters’ F1 series games in terms of talent tree style progression, if you’ve seen that before, and is very reminiscent of building up your characters talents in an RPG. You’ll now be earning research points throughout the career which you can use to improve yourself and your team for future races. No longer just a straight-through slog of event following event, the career mode has been updated to allow for a more involved experience. Which leads us nicely into the new fleshed out career mode. Take worn tyres into a stage and you’ll find yourself unable to take corners with as much speed, since you won’t have the grip, and a quick change of weather can quickly spell disaster for your times if you’re caught unaware of the heavens opening and ruining any semblance of stopping power you previously had. There’s also the addition of tyre wear and dynamic weather, which adds more unpredictability to your car. There’s still the odd times where it feels like it’s being too twitchy, but I could just as easily put that down to bad driving on my behalf. Now there’s a certain heft to them shifting around the track.

Cars feel a lot more planted than they have in previous WRC titles, where they used to feel a bit floaty and disconnected. Kylotonn have refined their physics engine to make the cars react more realistically, and the improvements really show. With that in mind, can it hold a candle up to the current forerunner in the rally game category, DiRT Rally 2.0?īefore we take a look at the game as a complete package, it’d be remiss not to talk about the new physics and handling that’s been delivered as a part of this entry to the franchise. With it they’ve brought a whole host of improvements and new features to the series, including a new handling model. Reviews // 20th Sep 2019 - 4 years ago // By Steven John Dawson WRC8 ReviewĪfter taking a years hiatus from the series, developer Kylotonn Games have returned to the WRC mantle to bring us WRC8.

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