Customer Reviews

Rally Championship

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You want a real racing game that'll test every skill you have from turning, sliding, braking, navigation, night driving, endurance, strategy, patience? Nothing beats a real rally race. This game has got everything. These are the same guys who made Rally Off Road Championship 1995(DOS) which is also awesome. Cars and tracks are all real-world. Graphics: Very very very realistic. The tracks were copied completely from the actual real world tracks down to every bridge, boulder and tree. Some tracks are very very huge. One track took me about 25 minutes to finish and I was going full speed. This game is hard. It's not your regular NFS racing because you have to manage the physical state of your car as you race each track. No matter how careful you drive your car, there's always something bound to get damage. Either the brakes get burned or the clutch just refuses to shift your gears. This is real racing. The graphics are just too real I thought I was in Scotland. Only thing they shouldve improved on was the inside panel of the car but you wont notice it anyway with all the action that's going on. Control and Realism: The controls are fine but they couldve done it better. The cars easily go out of control when it hits a grassy spot. Some bugs in the physics of the car when sliding. This can be fixed by downloading the patch release. Still, the controls are almost real. Questionnable damage system too but the fix is in the patch release. If your system crashes while starting up this game, disable the full motion video. The FMV interferes with Direct X 7.0 drivers. Create a .cfg file and type no=fmv1. Requirements: This game needs a fast system. If you have a Riva TNT2 or a GeForce256, this game will rock. Overall: This is the best rally simulator I've played so far. Pick it up!

This game is a nice change of pace. If you are a driving sim fan this game is a must. You race against the clock on long rally courses that are rendered in fine detail. No turning laps here, just miles of fresh racing. The colors are vivid, evan stunning at times. The trackside objects are well detailed in full 3d, not those flat trees like some other games. This is not a hammer the gas and do laps game. A little tap of the brakes and a dust kicing slide into the turns sets the pace in this one. It offers a good challenge, but is not pull your hair out difficult. The car bounces and slides realisticly and the braking characteristics are dead on. It has all the usual car adjustments,repairs and upgrades. You pick your tires and set the car to the wide variety of track conditions (gravel, mud, snow etc.) You get a good selection of real licensed cars and an excellant championship mode. This game is a white knuckle thrill ride. It was also nice to get a title that did not need a patch for a change. Park this baby on your hard drive for sure.

I was hesitant to buy Rally Championship because a 500 MHz Pentium III is recommended and I'd read your customer review which complained about the choppy gameplay and super-demanding graphics. I'm happy to report that, at least on my 350 MHz Pentium II system, the game performs flawlessly--even on higher resolutions with all the graphic goodies turned on. Go figure. The landscapes are nicely detailed, the colors vibrant and the cars well rendered. Rally races can be grueling, taking up to 20 minutes or longer to finish, so settle in for a long but pleasant ride. The only negative I have to report is that the cars don't seem to handle as well as the NFS or Test Drive cars. Even after tuning them again and again, they don't grip the road very well on turns--and with 36 road courses available, there are lots of twists and turns to this game. Overall, I found Rally Championship to be first-rate and challenging, a terrific change of pace from the usual driving games on the market.

I have owned this game for almost 2 years and it is still on my desktop. The realism is second to none. The graphics show the age of this game but other than that this it is awesome.

The stages are long and difficult. The time in the service areas are short. You have to push to get a good time but not too much because if the damage takes too long to repair you will incur a time penalty.

The in game physics are accurate and make this sim a challenge even for the most experienced racer. I wish that they would make another installment to this game because it is still the best rally sim out there.

If you think that the WRC rally game for playstation 2 was alright, you will be blown away when you first play Rally Championship. Gameplay is very realistic and graphics are impeccable!

The installation was very simple and straightforward and starting up the game was easy but can be lengthy depending on your system. Overall smoothness goes hand in hand with the speed of your computer. My 400mhz P2 with a cheapo 32mb graphics card produced excellent framerates. Obviously the faster system will play even better.

As I said, the graphics are fantastic, the next best thing to watching it on TV or being there! The only big negative I found with this game was the synthetic sounding engine. It gets really annoying after awhile and honestly sounds nothing like a real rally car. I would also like to hear the transmission shifts too, another thing they left out of this game. The co-driver commands however are very cool and sound very real. Improve upon the motor and transmission sounds though and this game would be near perfect.

Best driving sim out there. If you are a rally fan, or a driving sim fan, then this is your game! It will blow your mind!