If the Switch is your only way to play it though, this is certainly the best WRC-branded game I think of them all. It’s a wonderful game that certainly benefits from 60fps and analog accelerate/brake. I just bought this for PS5 for 23.99 with the PS Plus discount tacked on. Thanks for the review! Really happy this released on Switch for those without the luxury of a PS4 or 5. Even if you don’t have such a strong affinity for the sport and the words ‘Finland 1981’ and ‘Sweden 2004’ might as well be Eurovision events to you, the fact that this mode significantly increases the total number of tracks is still cause for celebration. Naturally, rally nerds are going to get the most out of this feature, and if the thought of driving round the 1974 Sanremo track or taking on part of the 1992 New Zealand rally has you dribbling in your driving overalls, you’re in for an absolute treat here. As well as the return of the in-depth career mode (which has barely changed much) there’s also a brand new mode celebrating the 50th anniversary of the World Rally Championship, which lets you take on a series of classic courses from different key years in the sport’s history. If you can put up with a game whose environments are almost always grossly underwhelming, there’s actually a lot more on offer here than last year’s game, which itself was already pretty stacked with content. Not only is the frame rate rougher than a cheese grater made of sandpaper, it’s also hard to concentrate on a crucial, lengthy run when trees and other scenery are appearing 10 feet in front of you as if there’s a glitch in the Matrix and it’s constantly trying to catch up with you. In docked mode it just about passes for acceptable, but play the game in handheld mode and the graphical issues are so severe that they provide a huge distraction while driving. We’d need to spend a lot more time running comparisons to say this definitively, but based on our own brief tests that certainly seems to be the case. Perhaps the graphical detail was dialled back even further in an attempt to improve performance, but whatever the reason there does appear to be a visual downgrade here. Quite why this is the case isn’t really clear. Sure enough, we re-downloaded WRC 9 and captured some screens from that, then matched the car, track, turn and weather in WRC 10, and in the handful of situations we tested, WRC 10 looks noticeably worse than its already ugly predecessor. In fact, while we played it we kept saying to ourselves: “I remember last year’s one looked bad, but did it actually look this bad?” Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) As in previous years, this is not an attractive game. There’s one thing that really can’t be ignored, though, and if you’ve been perceptive while scrolling through this review you might have already noticed it. When you start finally putting in reasonable times that challenge those of your competitors, you really do feel like you’ve accomplished something. Once you eventually get the hang of things – which, like we say, can take a while – you’ll find that WRC can be extremely satisfying. The slightest clip of an object at the side of the road will send you spinning or tumbling, and any oversteer on sharp bends can have you skidding uncontrollably. This is a game where your driving skills have to be exceptional, and you’re punished without pity if they aren’t. If you’re new to the series, expect to do badly for a while. As a serious rally simulation, WRC 10 is not the sort of game where you can jump in for the first time and instantly start swinging your car around as if Sega Rally itself had risen from its grave. We appreciate the effort that went into it and it sort of looks like the real thing, but it never really properly nails it.Īfter getting off to a rocky start with WRC 8 on the Switch then delivering a slightly improved but still shonky sequel, the series is back with its tenth entry and, once again, it’s a little better without being overwhelmingly brilliant. The WRC series on Switch feels to us a bit like a hammer made of sponge. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)
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