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LaPremierreAussi has EA SPORTS™ WRC

Nov 3, 2023 @ 1:21pm

Brief Oldtimer's Review

About me, if u dont know: the author of epochal reviews at Codmasters' forum in 2015 ("Rejoice of sectarians","Fake rally"). The king of WRC5 and SLRE (WR at most stages and so on).

So, THIS game makes great advantages, but they became in many cases lost in vain... vanished with mistakes.

Car physics and handling, for the ends, good and, may be, exellent. Its just that what I demanded in my reviews. The question now is only one: why it would not to do the same in 2015? We see some simplified SLRE handling, really natural, and suitable for massive playing. It reach the level of WRC 10 and, may be, generally exceed it, although WRC 10 also offers more sophisticated model, like SLRE, but sometimes goes wrong galaxy. If dont count home-made RBR samples, SLRE remains the best, but this game is already close.

I can mention, that we see useless elemets like "driving aids": the handling is quite easy without it, I didnt try, but its fearful to think, what these aids really do. In SLRE "aids" practically dont works, lets hope here also.

Another advantage is track building principles: here designers made revolution. Now they DO NOT overful stages with hundreds of idiotic surprizes, hidden under each turn or bump. SLRE amd Kilotonn game creators spoiled much their products with such things, in first case they practically killed their projest with it. Now we really can drive fast at unknown track using co-drivers notes only (the notes are not ideal, but it can be inproved). Its exellent.

Then problems starts. Obvioulsly, the picture is very poor, ugly and sometinmes fearful. It looks worse than not professional projects only, but than amateurs RBR tracks. Of course, WRC Generations and especially old good SLRE are from another universe. The last one is very good for compare: lower you see 2015 year geme
https://youtu.be/297t3YuOSS0
The aim was to make possible huge 30km tracks and seasona view, but seasons are usesless simply as idea, while long tracks with such picture occur too monotonous and really boring. Hard to realize, for what they needed also. Fail.

Perfomance... as for me, with my 1060 card me also used in prev WRC games 720 resolution and low quality, but here... I dont know, with such poor landscape it not much better even with 1080 and high. And produce freeze, which really irritate, especially, for example, massively appearing at last sector of each track, not depending of it's length. Here you often lose everything won before. Seems it made for purpose, and its really too much.

Gameplay. For me the main type of playing WRC games was ghost playing: I downloaded ghost from leaderboards and compited with it. Many my friends did the same. Now it lost. Its great fail. Of course, it concern online races also: sush live races are arcade by nature, and here you really need to see rivals. I tried championship... stupid dynamic AI, where you can win a minute at three minute track, and then lose the same at next race. Hard to eat such.

Multiplayer again failed. You must wait for 5 minutes, when the race will start, and then lose everything at first turn or fly out there. Especially nice such case ("you was kicked by the reason of inactivty"):
https://youtu.be/Mr3jSDwfNvc

Cannot understand, what is it at all.
Huge penalties of minute scale kills the game totally. Penalties must be regainable, and those, who dont understand it, cannot work in such games' building.
Standart rooms, like in WRC 3-4 or Grid 2 needed, with random tracks of some category and fast launch of them. Its absolutly clear.

Thats my thought for the moment.

Forgot force feedback. It seems really great.

Last edited by LaPremierreAussi; Nov 3, 2023 @ 3:33pm

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