WRC: FIA World Rally Championship

WRC: FIA World Rally Championship

released on Nov 18, 2005

WRC: FIA World Rally Championship

released on Nov 18, 2005

Immerse yourself in the first officially licensed handheld FIA World Rally Championship. WRC features 16 official rallies from around the world, including Japan and Mexico, plus 19 bonus stages and downloadable content. Now you can jump into the driver seat of one of 30 cars, including Evolution and Extreme spec cars. The game includes a total of six official car manufacturers and 17 official drivers from 2004. Test your skills against the best WRC drivers in the world, or link up to other PSPs via Wi-Fi for multiplayer battles.


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Gameplay-wise this is behind even the first Colin McRae Rally. For a simulator it's just lacking any depth, and the handling is tolerable at best. For some reason it lets you choose real drivers like that makes any difference, but won't let you tune the cars.

The menus are very poorly designed, there's hardly any settings there, you can't even look up controls. When you select "Single Rally", you need to select a location first to see an image of it (if you wanna at least get an idea of the weather, cause the game won't tell you), but then if you don't like it and press circle, it drops you all the way back to the main menu.

Graphically, although it's pretty decent from the technical standpoint, it's drenched in brown and grey colors, making it just unpleasant to look at. And the soundtrack came off more annoying to me than anything else, although I suppose some people will enjoy it.

That being said, it's a tolerable racer. Like, if you have nothing else to play, this is good enough to fuck around and kill some time.

Played it alongside the first WRC game for the PS2 and I couldn't believe how bad this one felt by comparison. I never got used to the handling, it just doesn't feel good to play and the soundtrack is composed of like 6 songs that you have to manually change in the settings, what the hell.