art of rally

intresting

Challenging and fun as hell to zone out in

This game is a great time killer. As someone who collected all the achievements, I really recommend playing it even if you're not a fan of rally or cars in general. Music fits the setting and pushes you to finish the level, and is just nice to listen to. Cars handle pretty good even without steering assist (can be tuned in settings), and difficulty levels vary enough to either be a real challenge for you, or be an easy time to relax on a couch. The game also doesn't pin any progression or achievements (most of them) on the difficulty/damage level, so you can select any difficulty you want and not be shamed because of it. The damage system is actually surprisingly complex and can affect your steering, speed and gear shifting time. You can also try manual gearbox if you want, but I never did. Car sounds are pretty good, some sound very distinct (e.g. umibozu) and some are just okay. Graphics are detailed enough to be beautiful and simple enough to have its own low-poly style Funselektor usually does in their games. Performance is great even for weak modern systems, but Finland levels stutter badly on my system. For reference, Hitman 2016/WoA with way more complex graphics runs just fine. For me turning vegetation renderer to instanced instead of indirect fixed the issue; people say it's a known issue with NVIDIA video cards. Some cars handle kinda weirdly and don't really want to straighten after the turn (even with no damage to suspension), but I see it as "there's a car for everyone". The least "fun" thing might be the Indonesia levels. They're just... tedious. Not fun. Australia levels are very similar but way less annoying. Also don't force close the game or cut power to your system, or you'll lose your career progress. It seems to happen to a lot of people, and the game does save multiple backups, but doesn't apply them at all. Overall, pretty good game! 8 terminal damage out of 10.

most fun game i've played and at a much lower price than some others, runs perfectly even on my laptop which has an integrated graphics card (not good), good progression and each car feels unique

Fun arcade racer to pick up and play, excelent balance of momentum and speed that feel more rewarding the more familiar you are. Beautiful distinct environments and each car is an awesome little homage to rally cars from history all the way up to the end of the 90s, with some references to some prototypes from the era. A Game I love to pick up if I have 5-10 minutes to spare or just play a rally or two to just melt into the environment & music or listen to a podcast.

классный казуальный симулятор. проходя карьеру чувствуешь эту разницу машин между группами, задним и полным приводом, среднемоторными и переднемоторными авто и их разными форм-факторами. физика довольная простая, сначала ржешь с этих нелепых полётов, а потом горишь с этого мелкого камушка, который тебе попался на скорости в 120км/ч и теперь ты улетел ♥♥♥♥♥ с трассы и из-за этого ты не смог побить рекорд у vindiesel2000

Was für ein wunderbares, kleines Rally-Spiel. Wer Top Down Racer und arcadiges Gameplay mag, muss hier einfach zugreifen. Man spürt überall die Liebe der Entwickler zum Rallysport.

I like the graphics and the overhead perspective - it lets you see a lot of the track and take in the environment. It's pretty chill and you can just drive while listening to something. The driving model leans towards 'realistic' I guess, and it's very slippery. Many of the early cars have severe understeer problems and it even seems like the wheel doesn't turn far enough at times. There's something wrong with the speed scaling as you can slide off a gentle asphalt curve going 20 mph, or catch huge amounts of air at low speed. Cars with 300+ horse power and short gears will struggle to reach 100mph on straights. You get used to it, but it remains very knife edge where you'll alternate between flying off the outside of a corner and braking too early and hitting the inside. I never became confident enough to full-send a whole stage. Some of the video game stuff is a bit lack luster. The hud is just grey squares on the screen. The victory screen is basic and slow and actually plays that stock 'yaaay' sound. The races are divided into car class and year, where each year a random set of rally stages is selected. Random to the point where if you quit and restart it will be different courses, not just different weather. I guess that's how real rally works but in a video game I would prefer consistent structured challenges with new courses unlocked as the game progresses. With those complaints out of the way, I did play it a lot, so I guess it's fun? After completing the career mode, I tried a little bit of time trial but the knife edge slippery physics are going to be too frustrating to grind out top leaderboard times like I did for [i]Parking Garage Rally Circuit[/i].