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So, Colin McRare 3's been cancelled for the 'Cube, along with Rally Fusion: Race of Champions, while V-Rally 3 - whether it'll be good-or-bad - still sits a long way off in the release schedule for Nintendo's GameCube. If you want a Rally game now, then there's only one to go for - and that's Rally Championship. And mine arrived yesterday, for a bargain £26.99 off SR (cheers, guys!)...
As you would expect, this game comes packed with a whole load of different courses to play through, as you progressively make your way through to the top-of-the-lot, while earning yourself some top-class fully licensed cars from people like Ford, and the rest (aswell as a Skoda), in all-sorts of different conditions that'll affect your performance.
Play in the rain, and you'll find your tires cannot grip the tracks' surfaces as-well as they would be able to, normally. Play in the dry, and it'll be fine. Loose surface - bad driving. Get the idea?
Not only this, but drive through muddy, or dusty conditions, and you'll soon find your car is plastered with dirt - and may also have some parts hanging-off (if you're not that good a driver).
That's one thing a like about this game - the attention that's been payed to those fine little details, like how your car can be affecred, in so many ways. If you're driving at night, with only your front headlights to rely on for sight, and you smash both of 'em up recklessly, then you're lost, on your own, in the dark, and you quite simply ain't gonna finish the race, because you cannot see! Go over jumps to fast, too many times; or turn to sharply as you'll come into action, and you may well find that your suspension, or even steering is now well-and-truly fecked!
And yes, you can have the bumpers and stuff hanging off your car after a bad accident with an "on-coming" tree!
One thing I don't paticularly like about this game is the steering, and how unrealistic it feels. Like NGC recently said, it does feel rather loose, and like you're car is floating above-ground level, slightly; rather than actually driving along the ground. But like with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2; once you give the game a chance, and get used to it all, you'll start to enjoy it, and appreciate it for the fairly-decent game that it is. Well, there's that... And the fact that you'll realise there isn't anything else available for the GameCube, in this category - and that there may never be anything better for it, either.
And incase you're wondering, the graphics aren't all that bad either. They may not quite push the GameCube to its limits, and do look a little PS2-ish and "grainy", but you can see what lies ahead of you next, and there seems to be very-little slow-down, if even any at all.
If you're after a Rally game for your 'Cube, and you don't have, or intend to buy, a PS2 or X-Box, then you should go for this.
Got any other questions? Just ask.
As you would expect, this game comes packed with a whole load of different courses to play through, as you progressively make your way through to the top-of-the-lot, while earning yourself some top-class fully licensed cars from people like Ford, and the rest (aswell as a Skoda), in all-sorts of different conditions that'll affect your performance.
Play in the rain, and you'll find your tires cannot grip the tracks' surfaces as-well as they would be able to, normally. Play in the dry, and it'll be fine. Loose surface - bad driving. Get the idea?
Not only this, but drive through muddy, or dusty conditions, and you'll soon find your car is plastered with dirt - and may also have some parts hanging-off (if you're not that good a driver).
That's one thing a like about this game - the attention that's been payed to those fine little details, like how your car can be affecred, in so many ways. If you're driving at night, with only your front headlights to rely on for sight, and you smash both of 'em up recklessly, then you're lost, on your own, in the dark, and you quite simply ain't gonna finish the race, because you cannot see! Go over jumps to fast, too many times; or turn to sharply as you'll come into action, and you may well find that your suspension, or even steering is now well-and-truly fecked!
And yes, you can have the bumpers and stuff hanging off your car after a bad accident with an "on-coming" tree!
One thing I don't paticularly like about this game is the steering, and how unrealistic it feels. Like NGC recently said, it does feel rather loose, and like you're car is floating above-ground level, slightly; rather than actually driving along the ground. But like with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2; once you give the game a chance, and get used to it all, you'll start to enjoy it, and appreciate it for the fairly-decent game that it is. Well, there's that... And the fact that you'll realise there isn't anything else available for the GameCube, in this category - and that there may never be anything better for it, either.
And incase you're wondering, the graphics aren't all that bad either. They may not quite push the GameCube to its limits, and do look a little PS2-ish and "grainy", but you can see what lies ahead of you next, and there seems to be very-little slow-down, if even any at all.
If you're after a Rally game for your 'Cube, and you don't have, or intend to buy, a PS2 or X-Box, then you should go for this.
Got any other questions? Just ask.
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So, Colin McRare 3's been cancelled for the 'Cube, along with Rally Fusion: Race of Champions, while V-Rally 3 - whether it'll be good-or-bad - still sits a long way off in the release schedule for Nintendo's GameCube. If you want a Rally game now, then there's only one to go for - and that's Rally Championship. And mine arrived yesterday, for a bargain £26.99 off SR (cheers, guys!)...
As you would expect, this game comes packed with a whole load of different courses to play through, as you progressively make your way through to the top-of-the-lot, while earning yourself some top-class fully licensed cars from people like Ford, and the rest (aswell as a Skoda), in all-sorts of different conditions that'll affect your performance.
Play in the rain, and you'll find your tires cannot grip the tracks' surfaces as-well as they would be able to, normally. Play in the dry, and it'll be fine. Loose surface - bad driving. Get the idea?
Not only this, but drive through muddy, or dusty conditions, and you'll soon find your car is plastered with dirt - and may also have some parts hanging-off (if you're not that good a driver).
That's one thing a like about this game - the attention that's been payed to those fine little details, like how your car can be affecred, in so many ways. If you're driving at night, with only your front headlights to rely on for sight, and you smash both of 'em up recklessly, then you're lost, on your own, in the dark, and you quite simply ain't gonna finish the race, because you cannot see! Go over jumps to fast, too many times; or turn to sharply as you'll come into action, and you may well find that your suspension, or even steering is now well-and-truly fecked!
And yes, you can have the bumpers and stuff hanging off your car after a bad accident with an "on-coming" tree!
One thing I don't paticularly like about this game is the steering, and how unrealistic it feels. Like NGC recently said, it does feel rather loose, and like you're car is floating above-ground level, slightly; rather than actually driving along the ground. But like with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2; once you give the game a chance, and get used to it all, you'll start to enjoy it, and appreciate it for the fairly-decent game that it is. Well, there's that... And the fact that you'll realise there isn't anything else available for the GameCube, in this category - and that there may never be anything better for it, either.
And incase you're wondering, the graphics aren't all that bad either. They may not quite push the GameCube to its limits, and do look a little PS2-ish and "grainy", but you can see what lies ahead of you next, and there seems to be very-little slow-down, if even any at all.
If you're after a Rally game for your 'Cube, and you don't have, or intend to buy, a PS2 or X-Box, then you should go for this.
Got any other questions? Just ask.
As you would expect, this game comes packed with a whole load of different courses to play through, as you progressively make your way through to the top-of-the-lot, while earning yourself some top-class fully licensed cars from people like Ford, and the rest (aswell as a Skoda), in all-sorts of different conditions that'll affect your performance.
Play in the rain, and you'll find your tires cannot grip the tracks' surfaces as-well as they would be able to, normally. Play in the dry, and it'll be fine. Loose surface - bad driving. Get the idea?
Not only this, but drive through muddy, or dusty conditions, and you'll soon find your car is plastered with dirt - and may also have some parts hanging-off (if you're not that good a driver).
That's one thing a like about this game - the attention that's been payed to those fine little details, like how your car can be affecred, in so many ways. If you're driving at night, with only your front headlights to rely on for sight, and you smash both of 'em up recklessly, then you're lost, on your own, in the dark, and you quite simply ain't gonna finish the race, because you cannot see! Go over jumps to fast, too many times; or turn to sharply as you'll come into action, and you may well find that your suspension, or even steering is now well-and-truly fecked!
And yes, you can have the bumpers and stuff hanging off your car after a bad accident with an "on-coming" tree!
One thing I don't paticularly like about this game is the steering, and how unrealistic it feels. Like NGC recently said, it does feel rather loose, and like you're car is floating above-ground level, slightly; rather than actually driving along the ground. But like with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2; once you give the game a chance, and get used to it all, you'll start to enjoy it, and appreciate it for the fairly-decent game that it is. Well, there's that... And the fact that you'll realise there isn't anything else available for the GameCube, in this category - and that there may never be anything better for it, either.
And incase you're wondering, the graphics aren't all that bad either. They may not quite push the GameCube to its limits, and do look a little PS2-ish and "grainy", but you can see what lies ahead of you next, and there seems to be very-little slow-down, if even any at all.
If you're after a Rally game for your 'Cube, and you don't have, or intend to buy, a PS2 or X-Box, then you should go for this.
Got any other questions? Just ask.