The custom livery editor is impressive…for those who are in to that. The cars look great, with detailed factory liveries on all. The snow banks are very unforgiving when you are flat out. The snow levels in Norway were standouts both graphically and in design…but man, they are a little hard at speed. I must admit, a wee bit of tearing at speed, but not enough to break the experience. I was playing on an Xbox Series S at 1080p / 60fps and the game still sung. All the stages from the 2022 season, as well as various historic and practice tracks, are beautifully made and look great. An awesome addition and well implemented in the game. The WRC Hybrids cars have the e-boost setup, so depending on the mode, extra power is delivered to the car from electric motors just like the real WRC cars. The cars were suitably powerful and the sense of speed was excellent. After a rough start, WRC goes like a trainĪs mentioned, the game did not control well out of the gate, but after some tweaks I was away. I understand this is to slowly introduce players to the power of the full WRC cars, but I wanted to run a real WRC team and car, not grind my way through a junior tier team season. I loaded up the Career Mode but to start with the lowly WRC Junior 2WD cars. ie: I have played A LOT of Rally games over the years. My only real complaint, is that for someone who is a long-term Rally game fan. Trying to fill in the skill tree and reap its benefits is what pushed me on in the event calendar, more than the overall mode itself. ![]() Be it pit crew skills, weather forecasting, recruiting or more intangible assets like team morale. It has an RPG vibe in fact, spending XP points to get advancements in certain areas of the team. Generations has a team ‘skill tree’, which I really liked. It is essentially a glorified calendar with a series of minor events or trainings sessions to do, to build up the team numbers and abilities, leading into a full WRC Calendar event. So, to class it as a Career Mode is a slight overstatement. The actual UI for the Team Career mode is very simple and has zero narrative or ‘curve-balls’ to navigate. Start in a junior grade, build a team and make money to advance…as well as win races. Essentially it is a very paired down version of the career modes in the bigger franchises out there, like F1 for example. I have always been drawn to the career mode in most driving games. The well-trodden player modes return- solo one-off events, competitive rally multiplayer and a career mode. The basic game model of the WRC titles has been consistent and hasn’t changed greatly in 2022s Generations. I wonder if anyone at KT Racing even tested the game with a wheel! But to be frank, the changes made where so far from what the ‘default’ settings were. ![]() To answer the initial question above “how does it feel?”…after some changes, it felt great. I eventually settled on settings which made the wheel feel good and the cars controllable. A quick scan of Reddit shows countless threads of sim racers trying to find the right input settings for their wheels. The force feedback was wrong, vibration was too strong and the all-important linear sensitivity was miles off being accurate. And with the games default control settings it felt…well terrible. I use a driving rig with racing seat, Logitech G920 force feedback wheel, full pedals and sperate gearbox shifter. The first thing to address though is the all-important question… How do the cars feel to drive? It’s a greatest hits compilation for a long-term rally fan like myself. As a result, I could drive the latest 2022 hybrid WRC cars with electric boost, but also drive cars from the overpowered 80s, like the 1985 Peugeot 205 T16. But with the ‘Generations’ title, you would rightly guess that notable cars and teams of the past also feature. It has all the cars, teams and drivers for the current season. WRC Generations is like many of the officially licenced racing games. 2022s WRC Generations is the last outing for the WRC franchise under KT. ![]() But with EA swallowing up Codemasters last year, and then taking the “WRC” licence from Kylotonn from 2023 onwards. ![]() ‘Dirt’ from Codemasters and the official “WRC” titles from Kylotonn (KT) Games. In recent years, Rally fans have only had two IPs to choose from. Colin McRae Rally on the PSOne is still one of my all-time favourite video games. I am a massive Rally Motorsport fan, both IRL and in video games.
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