I understand some livery choices being locked behind game progression, but since the vast majority is, I haven’t even gone back in and bothered since my initial attempt at livery editing. If you want to paint your car beyond the initially available colors, you’ll have to jump through all sorts of hoops just to get slightly different shades of those colors. Frustratingly, the majority of its sparse selections seem like they’re locked behind arbitrary progression. It’s a welcome addition, but the implementation is a little basic.
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This mode lets you compete in a series of rally events without having to fuss with management between races. If you’re interested in a rally career, but don’t want to get involved with all the management aspects, you can choose Season mode. If that sounds like a bit much, you’re eased into the career mode with a voice over tutorial that gives you insight while showing you the ropes of managing a rally team. Experience is gained from most events, most of the time even if you lose, so there’s always the possibility for incremental improvements to give you that extra push if you’re hitting a wall. There is also an extensive skill tree that you can spend experience points in. Meeting objectives gives you higher reputation, but if you fail too often, that can mean getting kicked from the team.
You will be given objectives to meet-both short and long term. You’ll have to finagle deals with car manufacturers to make money, and to make those deals you’ll have to have high enough reputation with them-that means winning races. You have to manage every aspect of your racing career, from agents to mechanics.
If you’ve played WRC 9, you’ll be familiar with the setup. One of biggest chunks of gameplay in WRC 10 is its career mode. It’s actually possible to smash into spectators in WRC 10, but there’s no gore or even impact-just an instant track reset. The 50 th anniversary mode adds even more classic tracks, and even features you don’t get in the contemporary tracks-like spectators standing dangerously close to the raceway. Being an officially licensed game, WRC 10 has the luxury of including some real world tracks, and not only are they deviously designed, but they’re fun as hell and feature some amazing scenery. Not only is WRC 10 one of the best racing sims I’ve played recently, it’s also features some great tracks. This makes WRC 10 a little harder for more casual race fans to get into. I wish there were a few more options to tweak, however, since you’re only given the options to toggle ABS, traction control, starting assist, and toggling the transmission between automatic and manual. There are a few assists that can be toggled on or off to make handling a little easier. This also means that WRC 10 is difficult, especially for those who aren’t used to a “sim” leaning racer. I can feel the difference between asphalt and dirt, or whether my tires are worn down or my suspension is shot, all based on how the car handles. I used to hold games like Dirt Rally 2.0 as one of the best feeling racing games, but WRC 10 has closed that gap. There are a ton of ways to play, but what makes WRC 10 so appealing is its handling-it’s one of the best race sims I’ve played. You can even face off against other players, and have a real person be your co-driver in co-op mode, or swap controllers in local multiplayer “split-screen” mode. If you’re into classic rally, WRC 10 has classic rally races available, too with its expansive 50 th anniversary mode which celebrates 50 years of World Rally Championship. In it, you can take on a number of different challenging races or start a new career in WRC or Junior WRC. WRC 10 is a racing game and also the only official World Rally Championship licensed racing game. I ts latest release, WRC 10, might be just an iterative development from the year before, but this series is shaping up to be the absolute standard for rally racing games-and my favorite rally racing series. While the Dirt series might be more widely known, the rally game that has me most excited lately has been WRC. Rally racing is definitely something I never thought I’d seek out, but it’s turned into one of my favorite types of racing games. One of the side effects of playing a lot of video games for review is finding new genres I never thought I’d like before.
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