The slider suggests more control to dial it in right at the perfect level to match your own driving skill, but the disparity in the AI’s performance across rallies can often be strange, especially when they go from nipping at your heels at one event to lagging miles behind in the next, despite no changes to their setting. Less ideal is the AI, the skill level of which is now determined by a slider instead of named difficulty levels. Everything from the racket of kick-up from loose surfaces to worn brakes seems stronger in WRC 9, although I have encountered an odd bug on multiple occasions where the engine sound becomes soft and muted despite all other effects remaining at normal levels. There seem to have been improvements made to the already excellent sound mix, too. Previous chase cams have seemed like GoPros attached to the back of your car on a broomstick and I found them virtually impossible to use. Additionally, the awkwardly stiff chase cam finally appears to have been nixed in favour of one that lets the car slide and pivot more on its centre axis while the camera remains facing forwards. There’s a new English co-driver whose delivery is more organic, though it’d be nice to have one who has the dialogue on-hand to be able to react in real-time to your good (or bad) driving. The feeling of weight seems better, though cars are no less nimble there just seems to be an improved sensation of bulk as your car dances across the gravel, which is ideal. There have been a few refurbishments elsewhere, with a handful of subtle but welcome tweaks since WRC 8. Were you saving those tyres for a special occasion, lads? I thought I was doing the right thing using them to… drive faster than those other blokes. The ridiculous bonus objectives have remained, though, and while the penalty for ignoring them or brushing them away is only slight, it’s still hard to swallow your current manufacturer reputation dropping after you win a rally, all because you had the audacity to… choose the best tyre compound for the job instead of an arbitrarily mandated one.
WRC 9 REVIEWS DRIVER
It’s also still pretty incongruous that it’d be up to a newly-hired driver to personally rotate staff out for vacation time, although it’s less annoying this time because team-members don’t seem to tire as quickly in WRC 9.
WRC 9 REVIEWS SERIES
WRC 9 seems mostly the same in this department, but to avoid déjà vu it probably could’ve done with a way for returning players of WRC 8 to skip past the feeder series and get straight to the WRC championship proper.
WRC 8 arrived with a radically overhauled career mode that seemed to draw inspiration from both the Dirt and F1 games, turning WRC 7’s vanilla shuffle from one event to the next into something that made me feel as if I really had an actual race team around me.
WRC 9 REVIEWS DRIVERS
But while casual drivers should look elsewhere for their speed fix, serious drivers will once again enjoy kicking up the dirt with WRC 9.New Zealand is fantastic too, particularly the sections that wrap their way along the North Island coastline, and Japan is an incredibly taxing and technical tarmac-based rally boasting a lot of raised sections of road flanked by streams and ditches that’ll totally ruin your day. Even on the lowest difficulty setting, the realistic controls make this just for serious race fans. Of course, if making a car's engine sound more realistic seems silly to you, you probably won't appreciate how realistic this gets when it comes to its handling. It even has the complete rally racing season as it was supposed to happen before the current pandemic shut many events down, as well as improved physics and more authentic engine sounds. You also have a navigator who tells you when to turn, and how hard, which is why this is more about precision and skill - and following orders - than driving as fast as you can.Īs for what this year's model has to offer, the developers have added three new events (in Kenya, New Zealand, and Japan) as well as 35 special stages. That's why you're not racing against other cars on closed tracks, but instead racing against the clock by driving on your own on curvy dirt tracks, and then comparing your times to other drivers when you're done. As is always the case with this series, WRC 9 is a realistic and deep rally racing simulation.
Like previous installments, this racing game brings the thrill and challenge of rally racing to your living room, without tracking in any dirt.
0 kommentar(er)
