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WRC 8 lets drivers choose from a list of goals, rather than feed you one at a time, and I appreciated this twist on a common progression tool for sports video games. But players have to keep an eye on what incentives they have active, because the short-term objective and long-term incentive can sometimes conflict.

My unhappy constructor can be pleased by meeting some kind of performance goal, such as coming in under a dollar figure for repairs in one race, or using only one type of tire for another. This kind of arbitrary, severe punishment is really tough to accept, but there are ways to ameliorate it. That’s because even a respectable top-10 finish runs the risk of dinging my team’s morale by -2 - and my relationship with the constructor even more.

Perks that smooth out dents in my team’s morale for a middling finish, or boost it for the times I really bring the groceries, are just as important as those that affect vehicle performance, I’ve found. WRC 8 has a perks tree for career advancement, too, but it can be molded more to a player’s style and priorities, rather than just be a linear arms race of development like F1. There’s no such management layer in F1, where my attention is more focused to a perk tree of car development. In career, I am in charge of all aspects of team management - from my relationship with the car’s constructor (and others, should I want or need a new ride) to hiring roles as granular as a booking agent (gets me more events and training) or meteorologist (deeper and more accurate reads on upcoming weather). F1 2019, also by Codemasters, doesn’t have anything like it, for that matter. The gap is smaller than ever this year, because Dirt has nothing like WRC 8’s career mode.

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Not to disparage past entries, but even with the FIA rally racing license, the WRC series has been largely a nominal competitor to Codemasters’ more established Dirt franchise, which launched Dirt Rally 2.0 earlier this year. Thanks to a dynamic weather system (making a series debut) you never feel like you’re in the same place with WRC 8, which sports 14 real-life rallies offering seven or eight stages each.įrom my first stage I could tell this is a game with a lot of polish, and that’s been a crapshoot for this series. Dirt Rally 2.0 had a sameness problem with its stages, which reconditioned, reversed, or made different excerpts of about a dozen base courses. An early afternoon winter sunset in Scandinavia and the sun-dappled seclusion of a Corsican hillside greet newcomers in the first two races on the career calendar. The two dozen or so stages I’ve raced so far are all legitimately breathtaking, and the lighting, as much as anything, delivers a sense of time as well as place. And there is a real sense of ownership in the time I post at the end of a stage, whatever it is and particularly if it comes with no penalties for resetting to the track. Luckily for KT Racing, I happen to be in a transitory period with my gaming where I actually like the reward of repeating a task until I get it right. It makes recovering the vehicle, whether in motion or crashed out at a stop, difficult and perilous. Understeer at high speeds and oversteer at low is more way more pronounced than in other driving games, for example.

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While you can play WRC 8 on a gamepad (it’s available for PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox One and Windows PC) and have a good time with it, I feel like a full blown driving wheel rig is necessary to get the precision this game demands. But I can count on two hands the number of times I’ve been in fourth gear, dry pavement or not. Counter-steering, such that I can sustain it, is the finest of lines between an intentional drift and a prolonged spin-out, making a lot of tight corner exits seem like luck more than skill.Īfter about six hours of driving, though, I felt like I had at least a clear idea of what could keep the car on the trail, which, thanks to the third-person camera position, always looks to be rail thin until you’re right over it. I have so much car revving underneath me, it’s like only half of the right trigger accelerator is available for use. Sure, I gnash my teeth when the slightest thumbstick correction sends me into an irrevocable fishtail. It also has an outstanding career mode that makes me want to keep trying. Let’s get this on the record first: WRC 8 is a very challenging racer, even with big-time driving assists like full traction control, in races against the easiest AI setting.