WRC FIA World Rally Championship
2010 video game
WRC FIA World Rally Championship is a car racing video game based on the 2010 season of the World Rally Championship (WRC). It is the first game to be officially licensed by the WRC since 2005's WRC: Rally Evolved , and is the seventh game to bear the WRC licence . The game was developed by Milestone srl and published by Black Bean Games. The developer had also created Superstars V8 Racing and Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano .
It features the official cars, drivers and co-drivers from the 2010 season and from the three support classes: Production World Rally Championship , Super 2000 World Rally Championship and Junior World Rally Championship . The game therefore includes 13 rallies, including Rally Finland and Rally de Portugal . 550 km of stages are included, split up into 78 special stages.
There was also a downloadable car pack featuring many Group B rally cars from the 1980s that could be available via Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store .
Car models contain around 50,000 polygons.[ 1] The PC version of the game does not support Multiplayer LAN mode, it supports single player, a party mode on the same PC and Online Multiplayer using a GameSpy account.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] It got to number 9 in the UK sales charts.[ 15] In Japan, where the game was ported and published by Cyberfront on April 14, 2011, Famitsu gave the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions a score of all four sevens for a total of 28 out of 40.[ 6]
References
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^ a b "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship critic reviews (PS3)" . Metacritic . Fandom. Archived from the original on February 20, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2024 .
^ a b "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship critic reviews (X360)" . Metacritic . Fandom. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2024 .
^ Sanches, Joao Diniz (October 8, 2010). "WRC FIA World Rally Championship (Xbox 360)" . Eurogamer . Gamer Network . Archived from the original on September 16, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2024 .
^ a b c Valay, Brian (April 12, 2011). "Famitsu review scores" . Nintendo Everything . Archived from the original on April 4, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2024 .
^ a b Barron, Joseph (October 12, 2010). "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship Review (PS3, X360)" . GameSpot . Fandom. Archived from the original on April 12, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2024 .
^ "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship". GamesTM . No. 102. Future plc . December 2010. p. 115.
^ a b c Robinson, Martin (October 13, 2010). "WRC FIA World Rally Championship Review" . IGN . Ziff Davis . Archived from the original on February 14, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2024 .
^ "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship". PlayStation Official Magazine – UK . Future plc. November 2010.
^ "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship". Official Xbox Magazine UK . No. 65. Future plc. December 25, 2010. p. 92.
^ Giunta, Cody (October 21, 2010). "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship Review - Xbox 360 Video Game Review" . PALGN . Archived from the original on October 24, 2010. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
^ "WRC: FIA World Rally Championship". PC Gamer UK . Future plc. December 25, 2010. p. 97.
^ a b Orry, Tom (October 8, 2010). "WRC [FIA World Rally Championship] Review (PS3, X360)" . VideoGamer.com . Resero Network. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2024 .
^ "UK Archive Software Charts" . GFK Chart-Track . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2015 .
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