![]() ![]() It's all fairly typical for a modern realistic racing title, and executed on par with the rest of the field. You also have a research tree that is quite similar to the F1 franchise, letting you focus on areas you want to improve over the course of the season. In a 3D space, you can browse around the different departments, hire crew like mechanics and meteorologists, manage finances, and make tweaks to your car. Besides doing the actual driving, you will have to manage your team as well. You can progress through the competition tiers by undertaking traditional races, but there are also optional events with sometimes extreme conditions or involving classic cars. WRC 8 includes a fairly typical career mode, where you start from scratch and try to build enough momentum through the rally season to eventually claim the podium. On home consoles, this series has seemingly not yet reached the popularity of its competing DiRT Rally franchise, but it certainly offers lots of content for the price. Also on offer are the nearly 100 different rally stages, spanning over 10 countries, and featuring a wide variety of tracks, weather conditions, and day/night alterations. As the name might imply, this is an officially licensed product for the 2019 competition season, which means that over 50 teams and their drivers from the real world are included. See how we got on with the beastly WRC car along with the other classes using the controller in the video below.WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship is a simulation racing game that focuses on the rally discipline. With so much power at your disposal, you’ll find you will only be going full throttle in short bursts here and there. Needless to say, we needed to adjust our braking distances, gearing and general inputs to deal with the treacherous conditions: in a nutshell, we needed to go slower.Īfter the tense wet run, our third and final run puts us behind the wheel of a powerful WRC car. Sure enough, after a minute into the stage, rain begins to fall onto the surface and we feel the reduction in grip levels soon after.Īfter struggling a little, we found what we could (and what we couldn’t) get away with on the track which was getting wetter by the minute. This time around we’ve selected the dynamic weather option to give us a bit of extra challenge. As long as you’re progressive with your accelerator inputs across all classes, you should be able to avoid upsetting the car’s balance and smashing into the nearest wall.Īfter our first run using the entry level Junior WRC car, we take on the second stage in a WRC 2 car. ![]() This way you’ll be eased into each class which, as you might expect, get ever faster and more difficult to keep in check. You really should start with the Junior WRC cars and work up to the WRC 2 and WRC classes. That’s not to say that WRC 8 is an easy game, mind you. As a result, it wasn’t long until we found we could attack stages with a fair amount of confidence. The transition from the racing wheel to the controller was very smooth as both feel very intuitive and responsive. We’re happy to report that the controller support for WRC 8 is very good indeed. ![]() Following on from part 1 of our E3 2019 WRC 8 coverage which focused on the beautiful Monte Carlo Rally using a racing wheel, we continue our exclusive WRC 8 analysis with part 2 which shines the spotlight on playing the title with a controller. ![]()
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