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WRC: FIA World Rally Championship

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7.8 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Developer: Traveller's Tales

Genre(s): Racing, Driving

Players: 8

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: April 18, 2006

Summary

Immerse yourself in the first officially licensed handheld FIA World Rally Championship game - packed full of exhilarating stages set in the toughest terrains the world has to offer. Experience the "in your face" thrills and spills of rally on the move - feel the speed, embrace the power, taste the mud! Features the 16 official rallies from around the globe including Japan and Mexico, plus 19 bonus stages and downloadable content enabled. 30 fully deformable cars, including Evolution and Extreme spec cars, plus all 17 official 2004 registered drivers, from the 6 official manufacturers. Link up to other PSPs via WiFi for multiplayer battles in 16 super special stages allowing you to pit your wits against the best WRC drivers in the world. WiFi racing for up to 8 players. [SCEE]

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What The Critics Said

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Boomtown

The real meat and potatoes of the game lies in the championship mode. Hardcore fans of the sport will be delighted to know that it is an exact reproduction of the real life version.

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Game Informer

Hands down, WRC is some of the best racing on the PSP. [Apr 2006, p.132]

Play Magazine

While there's certainly no shortage of PSP racing games on the shelves, there's a veritable drought when it comes to Rally games: a drought that Bandai Namco Games intends to eradicate with the impressive WRC. [Mar 2006, p.50]

Pelit (Finland)

An easy and decent-enough rally game. There is nothing amazing, though. And PSP is not the best platform for semi-realistic racing. [Jan 2006]

Gaming Target

Designed with both replayability and pick up & play in mind, WRC is both lengthy and challenging, but simple enough to play for 10 minutes a day on the train to work, between classes at college, or any other scenario where time is needing some killing.

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PSX Extreme

All told, WRC: World Rally Championship doesn't break any new ground, but it is, nevertheless, a solid rally racer.

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GameSpot

Sadly, its multiplayer support is almost nonexistent, and a few gameplay quirks conspire to make the driving less fun than it could have been. Still, WRC is a good, solid first try at bringing the sport of rally racing to the PSP system, even if it doesn't quite nail every component.

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Games Radar (in-house)

Perhaps the most convenient feature of WRC is its much-appreciated and often-used instant reset. When - not if - you make a mistake and end up stuck behind a boulder or upside down in a ditch, hitting the reset starts the race over immediately - no loading at all.

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Worth Playing

This will make no converts to the rally sport field, but those already singing with the off-road choir will get a blast out of the ability to drive like a maniac through the mountains when they're away from home.

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PSM Magazine

There's nothing to really love, but nothing to really hate either. [Apr 2006, p.78]

IGN

It can be fun to drive and the game looks nice, but you're also playing catch-up rather than fairly racing against time, it's easy to hit a small piece of land and flip or spin your car and your navigator is only of modest help.

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Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK

Rallying is tight and awkward on the PSP's small screen, and though WRC has plenty going for it, it's just not as much fun as other PSP racing games. [Nov 2006, p.155]

Official U.S. Playstation Magazine

A decent racer that doesn't come close to fulfilling its potential. Still, it's currently the only choice for rally racing on the PSP. [Apr 2006, p.89]

GamePro

A solid racer, but it is definitely not for everyone. Take it out for a spin only if you're familiar with rally racing. Otherwise, this niche sport is worth passing up.

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PALGN

WRC for the PSP is a disappointing title, it feels scaled down for the PSP and only features one main single player mode, there has been no thought put into the multiplayer mode and the song selection is poor, if you simply must own a rally title then Colin McRae Rally 2005 is a better title.

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Pelaaja (Finland)

The PSP version of WRC has a different developer than the PS2-version - and it shows. New developer Traveller’s Tales has done good work in the past, but based on this the team lacks experience in the rally game genre. The cars sound lame, it’s hard to drive the Special Stages as it’s very unclear where you should be driving. Most of the time your car feels like it’s floating above the road. [Sept 2005, p 58]

Deeko

Yet another disappointing rally game, and yet another example of lazy developers cashing in on the PSP's architecture. [...] Alas, the game comes out maintaining only one real feature of its bigger brother: the damage engine. Everything else — from the sub-par graphics to the horrible control — takes away any possible enjoyment you could get out of this game.

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1UP

Useless analog steering, weird collision issues, and the lack of a decent multiplayer mode keep it from being a winner.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

The_One_who Cannot_be_named gave it an8:
Good one all around - good graphics and believable controls.

Tom the bomb gave it an8:
This game is very underrated....great graphics and loads to do with 64 stages....great to play in short bursts as it autosaves after every stage.....just a perfect PSP rally game with just some slight problems with steering mainly to do with the PSP itself.

Matt U. gave it a0:
This is total rubish, just buy buy Colin McRae Rally 2005 for PSP, its better!

DjFIL gave it a7:
this game is good... good graphics, good car physics, damage and controls. But there was one thing I couldn't let go of to actualy purchase this game... the career/championship mode format is crap. You shouldn't start last every new stage, and shouldn't be required to pass a determined number of ghost cars. In my opinion, an official licence (like WRC) should play the way the real event does... no ghosts vehicles, no "required" placement, it's you vs the time (no ghosts) and you start in order of slowest to leader in intervolts. Otherwise this is a good game... but I didn't want to play the terriable championship mode, and didn't want to just stick to single stage time trial mode.

Eric C. gave it an8:
This is a solid rally game. It is missing some features like manual transmission and you can't configure the controls, but the gameplay is solid and fun. the graphics are nice. This easily stands up to any rally game on the PS2, although it certainly doesn't surpass CMR. The car handling took me a bit to get used to, with the rather sensitive steering with the nub. But now that I've played a while, I'm getting the hang of it, powersliding, e-braking, etc. I highly recommend this game for anyone wanting a serious rally game on a handheld.

Mark UK gave it a10:
I got this game because it was £23 second hand in my local gamestation and I didn't have a racer on my PSP. I love it!! The graphics are smooth and detailed and it's very addictive, as for the ghost cars, there a little annoying but give you a really good idea on your progress and of course there staggered just like real life rallying. The game runs along at a fair wack so has a sense of speed. You will also be able to get new tracks etc from yourpsp.com so extending it's life. As the first racer for my PSP I think it was an excellent buy and am very happy overall with it! GO BUY IT.

[anonymous] gave it a9:
I love rally and this does a good job of quenching my rally thirst. Its driving feel is enjoyable and gameplay is fun but graphics could be a little better. Still a great game for rally fans

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