Gamers have been painstakingly waiting for five years since the last
WRC title to have another go at the premier rally racing videogame franchise.
However, for this latest
WRC title they've seriously upped their game.
MINI, together with David Richard's Prodrive, are taking the MINI Countryman back in to Rallying with
a WRC title inside three years the target.
Perhaps that's why the Evo IV delivered Mäkinen four rally wins and
the WRC title in 1997...
It was built to celebrate the great man's fourth consecutive
WRC title, in 1999, and benefitted from a faster - responding titanium turbo, a front strut brace, suspension 10 mm lower than the standard VI and the quicker steering rack from the RS model.
There's also
the WRC title - winning M - Sport Ford Fiesta from last year, the final iteration of the Porsche 919 LMP1 car, and a GT3 version of the Ferrari 488 which took Christina Nielsen and Alessandro Balzan to the GTD championship in IMSA last season.
Lancia / Fiat has more constructor
WRC titles than any other manufacturer.
The provenance of Prodrive could not be more promising: motor sport victories over the years include six
WRC titles, five British Touring Car Championships and three class victories at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
After the mediocre reaction to the first two
WRC titles and the rise of Codemasters» domineering DiRT...
I think it's fair to say that none of the games that have been released so far have Forza fans worried, but given their penchant for off road adventures with
the WRC titles, surely Gravel is the game that they have been working towards all this time.
Not exact matches
Barely one month before the official launch of
WRC 3, the new and much awaited racing
title developed and published by Milestone, new challenges and the boss battles have been announced for the career mode.
Smaller
titles like Need For Speed Payback, Baja: Edge of Control and
WRC 7 just illustrate this point further.
Evolution has been an important part of SCE Worldwide Studios for over 10 years - working on ground - breaking racing
titles like
WRC, Motorstorm and DRIVECLUB.
Onrush is the debut
title from the new Codemasters development team in Cheshire, U.K., which is made up of former members of Evolution Studios (Driveclub, MotorStorm,
WRC).
WRC Powerslide, the first digital
title... Read More
Weekend winner Loeb also jumped back into one of his
title - winning Citroen DS3
WRCs on the Skoda Forest Rally Stage, whilst recent F1 pole - sitter Felipe Massa brought the classic V10 F1 soundtrack back to the Chichester countryside in Damon Hill's 1996 Championship - winning Williams FW18.
In
WRC 2, Skoda will be aiming to defend its 2016
title with the Fabia R5, with competition from drivers in Fiestas, Citroen DS3s, Peugeot 208 T16s and Hyundai i20s.
It extends his record for
title wins, with Loeb boasting the most successful
WRC career.
Sebastien Loeb has picked up the
WRC drivers»
title for the last five consecutive years, and with 52 rally wins, he holds the highest number of race victories in the series, too.
He grabbed the drivers» crown at 2009's final
WRC round piloting his Ctroen C4 in Wales, but for once it was by the narrowest of margins, his 93 point total being just one ahead of
title rival Mikko Hirvonen's.
Loeb's record now stands at six
titles and 54
WRC rally wins, and he's even become a «Sir».
In the FIA World Rally Championship (
WRC) that requires participants to compete with production - based models, Subaru WRX STI models have proven their credentials by bringing Subaru three consecutive Manufacturers» championship
titles from 1995 to 1997.
In fact, it has been involved in various rallies and has won various manufacturer's
titles in the World Rally Championship (
WRC).
At the very least we can expect the Vitesse
WRC to be the world's fastest production convertible, but will it reclaim the
title of world's fastest car?
For those that are familiar with racing games, and rally
titles in particular, you'll know that the
WRC series have been a little hit and miss in terms of replicating the sport of rally cross in virtual form.
Whereas MUD had all the content of it's Playstation 3 brother but lacked in presentation,
WRC 3 improved graphics dramatically but at the expense of the console's career mode which hurt the
title no end.
WRC 3 draws its content directly from the World Rally Championship and is an officially licensed FIA
title — we will have more coverage on the game soon.
While
WRC 3 has been released in Europe already, North America will have to wait until «Spring 2013» until they can play the Milestone developed
title.
Listening to the developer during the gameplay, it's clear that Kylotonn Games have reworked the vast majority of elements found within
WRC 6 compared to last year's
title (we'll have a separate article coming shortly looking into the changes).
Having worked on racing
titles such as the MotoGP,
WRC, and SBK Generations series, it is little wonder then that the official entry in the Monster Energy Supercross series has been tackled by Italian developer Milestone S.r.l, and, for the most part, is a successful representation of the sport, although it's not without some noticeable flaws.
With
WRC 7, the official game of the World Rally Championship, we get another rally focused
titled.
WRC 7 is a real improvement for the series and for now it has become my go - to rally
title.
For those that are familiar with racing games, and rally
titles in particular, you'll know that the
WRC series have been a little hit and miss in terms of replicating the sport of rally cross in... Read more
Last year they broke away from doing licensed
titles like
WRC and MotoGP to deliver a wholly originally IP
titled Ride, which as its name suggested focused on the beauty that is motorcycles.
The comparison also gives us an opportunity to compare the co-drivers in each
title,
WRC 5 for instance was criticised for having a rather robotic co-driver which felt unnatural and somewhat boring.
Bigben Interactive and Kylotonn Games have unveiled the launch trailer for their upcoming rally racing
title WRC 7 which will be available on the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC on the 26th September.
Evolution has been an important part of SCE Worldwide Studios for over 10 years — working on ground - breaking racing
titles like
WRC, Motorstorm and DRIVECLUB.
= > What is NOT coming to the Vita and we'd love to play: WWE 2K series, NBA 2K series, Pro Evolution Soccer,
WRC 5, MotoGP 15, NFL, Gran Turismo, Need for Speed and any other sport
titles that crosses your mind; I mean, that and an Air Combat game (like Sega's Afterburner or Bandai Namco's Ace Combat Infinity).
Now specialized in racing, Kylotonn learns and builds knowledge about everything on wheels, from motocycles in Tourist Trophy, to arcade
titles like Flatout4 or a more simulation kind with the
WRC series.
We give our early PC gameplay impressions on
WRC 5, the very latest official
WRC rally
title offering in...
As spotted by Jaromír Miko from Slovakian gaming site Xboxer.sk,
WRC 7 is among the first
titles to receive the Xbox One X inscriptions.
Along with it, popular
titles such as
WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship, Soul Axiom, and several others are also available for Xbox Live members at discounted prices.