WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship

This is one of the if not the best rally game out there. It is lacking the fluff of the dirt games, it is lacking the slightly better graphics of the dirt games, but after i played this *mind you i own the dirt games,i love the dirt games in their own rights and i have spend hundreds of hours in many dirt games*, but after i played this one i cant go back anymore. I tried for the first time WRC 7, but i did not like it at all, then i tried WR8 and i LOVED IT, and WR9 is a great improvement on how the car feels and handles on the road with some great visuals in their own rights and to me this is the most important thing in such a game. It has some good mechanics in terms of team management for a few brief moments of quiet relaxation between races and also it has some cool mods like the weekly and daily mods i love them with the teams you can do as well fun stuff. In short - best rally game out there hands down. Unless you try it you cant understand if you are a dirt fan. Go to steam or somewhere try it if you don't like it return it but I can almost guarantee if you are a fan of the game few hours with it and you will he hooked.

Somehow I felt that the physics of WRC 9 is weird, car will turn 360 or flip over in the air when it just slightly hit on something. Also the FFB of the game does not feel right for me, if the car going too fast, it feel like I'm going to lost control anytime as I can't feel the grip at all. Even with all the assist enabled, it still feel hard to control the car. No doubt, the graphics of the game is great and the tracks is very challenging as well. However, the car choices is too less. I would say DiRT Rally 2.0 is better compare to WRC 9. But if you can afford, I would suggest to try both to see which one you like the most.

First I want to say, that I like this game a lot. The stage design is fantastic (apart from one aspect I will highlight below), the physics feels way better than in all the previous games. I wouldn´t even call it worse than in Dirt Rally 2.0, but very different. I cant say a lot about the career mode as I didnt play it. However there are some points of criticism: At least in the German version there are some errors e.g. in the option menu "steer to the left" is translated "nach links rechten" which literally means "to left to the right". It should be named "nach links lenken". In the tuning menu the game tells you that the left of the gearing ratio bar corresponds to a short gearing ratio, and the right end of the bar corresponds to a long ratio but it is actually the other way round! I dont trust the ingame descriptions of the tuning options ever since. In the replay mode I cannot find a way (a button) to cycle through the replay cameras using my G29 wheel which is pretty annoying. I bet that people using a gamepad dont have that issue. The effect of dust covering up the windhsield and the door windows is so extreme, that you have to use the whipers every 40 seconds or so and after a short stage in Sardegna you cannot see through the door windows anymore. This is ridiculous and I hope the developers turn down the intensity of this effect. The new weight shift effect on left foot braking is essential. Although the behaviour of the car upon landing after a jump has been improved massively (big thanks to the developers for this!), some jumps are ridiculously big. For example the jump on Lerno reverse is impossible to survive if you dont brake to a near stop on the jump itself. There are some ridiculous bumps in stages like Barranta which lift the car up into the air like a "real" jump. I would appreciate if my co-driver were to tell me "caution" or "big bump". The co-driver is also sometimes too late with his pace notes. Cant we get the notes EVEN earlier? Apart from that I like the improvements they´ve made with the co-driver. The cars sound better than in previous games but Dirt Rally 2.0´s sounds are way better. Even though I included many negative points, I have to say, that this is by far the best WRC game and I hope that future patches are going to fix some of my points of criticism.