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That still looks very poor. Im sorry the only way we will get a decent rally game is if someone like Codelasters gets hold of the licence. Every time Black Bean release a new WRC game they say they have made it better graphicly Bleah bleah and all I see is a rubish from them. The WRC franchise deserves a better developer.

Don’t agree, for the first time this title has caught my attention, both the others didn’t interest me. This video ( crap driving aside ) makes me think of the old skool Colin Mcrae titles before Codies butchered the name with the DIRT series. Tracks look nice and narrow and the graphics are pretty nice. One to watch and keep and eye on for me. It’s not gonna replace RBR but it sure as hell looks better already than anything codies have done with the DIRT series in terms of what look like rally stages and not funfairs. Cockpits still look a bit iffy though with animations but hopefully that will be improved

graphics do look a bit better but still far off codemasters engine. Yes I agree they have drifted apart with the dirt series but if they did a full on WRC game with a WRC Licence then it would be one kick ass rally game. One thing this video clearly shows is how poor the physics still are just look at how the cars move around etc.

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failed to impress” there is an understatment.  I frankly do not giv a crap about the graphics as long as they look better than RBR. What I am really interested about is the ability to use more than a single controller and of course, the way it drives.  But the controller issue is pretty big as with the previous two installments it would not recognize separate pedals setups. That would mean taking apart my system just for a pretty bad game. no way. If they allow more than one controller, I’ll cnsider it. But also there has to be a consensus that overall it is a vastly superior game.

What is the matter with WRC anyway? is their marketing so  despirited that they don;t take 10 minutes to read what their user base think of their license? They should give it to Kunos. if they want to keep it in Italy.

A Kunos rally game would not sell to the masses, and that would do nothing to help raise the profile of WRC, which is what these licensed games are mostly about.

 Codemasters couldn’t produce a “Sim” if their lives depended on it.

I’ve lost all faith in rally titles since RBR, promises, great screenshots, time after time crap is delivered.  They are appealing to the 8 yr olds that want to take all corners at 150mph with a joypad, this I have come to accept.  Long live RBR.

Absolutely unnatural, ugly picture. The car isn’t similar rallycar, the route isn’t similar to the real. It is very upset with that saw.

Well, the roads are narrower but I didn’t see the dynamics, the challenge of rally racing in this trailer. The car was jumping, but it does not seem to affect the anything. It’s not like the they say in Top Gear: “Looking slow, must be great lap/time”. 

 I don´t think it looks worse than Codemasters-titles, it looks at least the same. And it has a bit more claim than the highly arcade-titles by Codemasters.

So hopefully they get the driving feeling right.

It’s not even worth submitting to VirtualR

Tracks look OK-ish with some narrow roads etc. but the physics look really poor. I cannot get any sense of mass or connection to the road from that vid. Also when the car jumps, the landing lacks any sort of ‘oomph’. No sense of mass and the suspension is not reacting properly.

Heck, even Dirt games look better!

lol I don’t think that entirely fair. Full sim isn’t their focus, so they don’t focus on it. If they could guarantee 2.5 to 4 million sim racers to buy their game, they would poop out a sim faster than you could say “code…” 

Great, more emphasis on graphics when a total physics overhaul is more essential.

Another arcade. When will a normal sim. Until now, people go to the floor, Richard Burns Rally. And all the new games in this genre-shit. For kids who need a simple brilliance.

good lord, who buys this stuff?

 Almost sounds like a Codemaster employee.  They haven’t made 1 true sim to date in my opinion, so I don’t think they could crap out anything but arcade racing games, they have never had a sim.  And if they could poop it out faster than I could say “code”, it would be on par on how I feel they treat their games, poop them out quick and make cash, don’t listen to your fanbase, just do what makes the most $ regardless of anything else.

I am really sorry, but are the creators of this game aware that we already have 2012? They still seem to be living in XX century

This is weird. Despite how unpopular Black Bean seem to be, they never go out of business. It’s the kind of thing I’d expect to see in a front for organized crime. :P

Even a blind person will know this is arcade to the max, the music says enough already.

Apart from that, you seem to be driving on stages that are decent, less of a highway feel. 

‘Problem’ with this game is that it is virtually the only one in its genre, I liked WRC2 more than DiRT3, though both were crap.

yeah a ‘sim’, which they do already.

Codies is in no way able to make something that is even remotely a sim(as in handles like a f1 car for example)

 LOL,  I had to laugh at that one :)

 If only we could get someone to port the graphics and tracks to RBR….wishing ;)

If a one man band like PiBOSO can make a sim, I’m sure a multi-million pound company can hire the right people to do the same. That same man said “It’s not DX11.. and I don’t care” shows his focus is on physics, Codemasters is going the opposite route.

 Just as I’m sure Piboso could produce DX11 graphics, I’m sure Codemasters could produce a Sim. But as I said, that isn’t their focus, they said this for the last two years in a row. The F1 games seem to be selling well year on year, so they seem to be doing enough to please their fan base. 

I’m unfamiliar with any games which have full sim physics and arcade physics all in one game and have managed to pull it off well? I’ve only seen all, nothing or in-between. These games fall on the in-between which is what they were intended to be. Adding (switchable) assists does not really bridge the gap, well, they do for the people that don’t use them. For the people that don’t, they are left uncompetitive, frustrated or with a game that is boring with little feeling of accomplishment, i.e not mass market.