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Sega Rally Revo

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I've been a Sega Rally fan since the original came out on Sega Saturn in 1995. I wanted to like this game, a lot. It has incredible graphics, a lot of cars, and similar gameplay as the original. Unfortunately, this last feature is one of the many problems this game has.

I haven't been this frustrated with a racing game in a long, long time. I've been playing Revo for about 3 weeks now, and I still get destroyed in the very early races of the game. The AI is ruthless, driving on invisible tracks and invulnerable to the wonky physics that dictate my driving. The steering is so loose that it feels like the car is riding on melted butter. It takes a lot of effort and concentration to keep your ride from slamming into every wall along the track (the key is to focus way down the track to keep your car steering in the right direction- you have to stay ahead of it, like its a ship or an airline- not a race car). Even when you figure out how to drive, it buys you a race or two at most. Then the AI kicks in to super-steroid mode and you have no chance of winning. You will end up battling (and I mean battling) just to not end up dead last. I seriously had to restrain myself from slamming my $60.00 controller on the floor. I've already cracked the game's case. I consider myself a mild-tempered person. You have to really irk me off to get me to loose control. This game pulls it off very well. Again. I haven't been this frustrated with a game in a long, long time.

The design flaw that ruins this game is the setup. You are only allowed to race in 3 race segments. You will struggle with one race, and then finally, finally finish first. Now you have to win two more races in order to earn all points and win the championship. There is no way to restart on race two or three. If you finish second (a feat in itself) on race two, it's over. Try again. The lack of a race restart feature (for the current race) totally sucks the enjoyment out of it. It makes this game like one of those NES games way back in the day that was impossible and based all it's replay on being insanely difficult (and thus, somehow worth it). This philosiphy died years ago, and this game should die too. I haven't hated a game I wanted to like so much in a long time. Thanks a lot, Sega.

I've played through both Dirt and Motorstorm. Both are challenging, enjoyable games. If you have to play this game, wait two months and it will be in the bargain bins. I promise.

If you're looking for an over-the-top rally racing game look no further than Sega Rally Revo. If you're looking for a hardcore rally experience this isn't the game for you, think of Sega Rally as the Ridge Racer of rally games.

There are a handful of offline options such as Championship, Time Trial and Free Run. Championship is the heart of the game where you compete for points in multiple sets of 3 or 4 races. The points you earn during the Championship allow you to unlock new championships, tracks and cars, all of which can be used in the other offline modes as well as online. You don't need to win every race to unlock items, you may only need to score a total of 240 points out of a possible 280 to unlock everything.

There are three main groups of cars in Sega Rally, Premier, Modified and Classic. Premier are your modern WRC rally cars, Modified are mostly cars from the smaller rally championships around the world and the Classics are the old Group B monsters from the 80's. You can unlock new liveries for the cars when you hit 20 miles and 50 miles driven in each particular car. This helps to spread out the use of each car although you'll probably find one or two models that you'll use over and over.

Track selection is a little light, there are five enviroments, Tropical, Safari, Canyon, Alpine and Artic, another is unlocked later in the game. Each enviroment features three tracks all of which can be unlocked to be raced in reverse. One good thing is that none of the tracks are bad tracks, in fact I'd say that for the most part they're all exceptionally well laid out. Geo-Deformation allows for deep ruts to be carved into the track while racing. These ruts can really pull your car around and play into racing strategy.

Online options are plentiful and fun and lag is non-existant. Full online Championships can be created and raced among friends. Nothing groundbreaking here but it works well and adds to the replay value.

Graphically the game looks very nice with not much more than a hint of aliasing and the framerate seems a steady 30fps at all times. There are some nice effects such as cars getting muddy and then having the mud washed off by a large puddle. The enviroments are nice to look at and offer a lot of variety between each. Watching the Aurora Borealis while racing the Artic is quite an experience.

Overall, Sega Rally Revo is a fun rally game that manages to take you back to the days of dropping 25 cents into an arcade machine. I'd recommend the game to anyone looking for a simple, fun rally experience.

not much for me to say as the other gamers already pointed everything out.
wait until the game is in the bargain bin for $10-15

What started as a beautiful concept for a fun party racing game turned quickly into a series of groans and complaints in only 10 short minutes after popping in Sega Rally Revo.

With such a great buildup in the description of the terrain-deformation physics engine, this game looked to have a lot of potential. Unfortunately, as noted above, the reviewer quickly found most of the bad press attached to this game to be true. Each car feels like the one chosen before, the tracks all have the same circular quality, and it really doesn't matter what surface your car is currently driving over.

The cars control about as well as a gyroscopic monkey. There is no sense of real control, only the feeling that the actual wheels doing the turning must be located directly under the center of the car, each car spins like a top! This is unfortunate, because the menu system and graphics are well done. The concept of realistic deformation is very attractive and if someone ever actually gets it right, this reviewer would like to know, to be the first in line to purchase THAT game.

In short, unless you enjoy bouncing a generic car off the sides of a generic "track" with no car deformation modeling, don't bother; there are plenty of other good games out there to spend your $50-60 on.

I bought this game for my boyfriend, and he really has seemed to enjoy it! He loves racing, and he has mentioned that it is quite fun racing game to play. Very good purchase!

If you are a fan of the original Sega Rally racing games and like driving in different weather and terrain conditions you will definitely want to pick this one up. I played both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 demos and found the controls in the 360 version more responsive and a bit more dialed in. I also noticed I was getting better lap times on the Xbox. A combination of very impressive graphics, fun physics, and cool effects makes this one of my favorite pick up and go racing games. This game may be discounted in price but definitely not discounted in game play. Other games I enjoy are Project Gotham Racing 4 and Gran Turismo 4.

Good solid arcade type game, not as sim-like as Dirt, but a lot of fun nonetheless. If you were a fan of Sega Rally 2 on the Dreamcast, then this game is for you. Also has a decent selection of cars to choose from.

I got this in hopes it could replace Ralli Sport Challenge 2. The online option is the main reason I decided to give this a try.

As stated before,the vehicle controls are horrible. The terrain does change as the track is driven on by you and the AI. Driving in water will slow you down a lot more than anything else. That feature would be great if it was not so hard to keep the car on the track. The AI will make it look like childes play.

I tried multiple times to give the game a chance. Dirt for the 360 was funner except for a boring online setup.

Don't waste your time with this game, buy DIRT!!!!! This is one of the worst rally games I've played. Little to no changes avaiable to your car,no upgrades all cars are equal you always start last! This game is junk period. For a real rally game buy DIRT!