WRC 5

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I noticed this point about features in the game and no ones seems to have mentioned it. Does this mean can make our own stages or am I reading this wrong?

A level editor to create living, varied and realistic environments, alternating driving surfaces such as asphalt, gravel, snow…
 
bluemoon_19
I noticed this point about features in the game and no ones seems to have mentioned it. Does this mean can make our own stages or am I reading this wrong?

A level editor to create living, varied and realistic environments, alternating driving surfaces such as asphalt, gravel, snow…
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What with pre-launch chatter for games not always making it through to actual features in the release, I for one wanted to wait until actually playing the game to be excited about things I found :)

This close to launch though, it's still looking very good.
 
VXR
It'll be interesting to see if this or Loeb will appeal more to today's rally fans. I'm from the pre-WRC era when it comes to rally because the current crop do nothing for me. I'm a big fan of the old Group A and Group N era. Much more about modified production cars than specialist racers.
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Spent a bit of time watching videos of both last night and Sebastean Loeb Rally Evo definitely looks better (and makes sense when I found out that Milestone were making that one and not WRC 5).

Graphics, framerate, physics and course design all look better than WRC 5. In fact, WRC 5 looks pretty awful. Everything looks last gen (it's amazing how ordinary things look when you become accustomed to 60FPS...).

I'll be picking up a copy of Loeb Rally Evo to get me through until Dirt Rally hits the PS4!
 
CarreraGT
Spent a bit of time watching videos of both last night and Sebastean Loeb Rally Evo definitely looks better (and makes sense when I found out that Milestone were making that one and not WRC 5).

Graphics, framerate, physics and course design all look better than WRC 5. In fact, WRC 5 looks pretty awful. Everything looks last gen (it's amazing how ordinary things look when you become accustomed to 60FPS...).

I'll be picking up a copy of Loeb Rally Evo to get me through until Dirt Rally hits the PS4!
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Are you serious? The physics in SLR look terrible, WRC 5 looks like it has a chance to be good and it's because it's not made my Milestone. Every WRC game Milestone made was rubbish.
 
TiZzla
Are you serious? The physics in SLR look terrible, WRC 5 looks like it has a chance to be good and it's because it's not made my Milestone. Every WRC game Milestone made was rubbish.
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Compared to what? I thought WRC 1-4 were good given the budget. Graphics and sound were a bit ordinary, but physics were better than any of the dirt games.

I'm hoping Dirt rally will change that though...
 
CarreraGT
Compared to what? I thought WRC 1-4 were good given the budget. Graphics and sound were a bit ordinary, but physics were better than any of the dirt games.

I'm hoping Dirt rally will change that though...
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Compared to WRC 5 the physics in SLR look very arcadey with no sense of weight and the cars don't slide around at all.
 
I only played WRC 1,2 and 3 on PS2 and thought the physics were absolute rubbish. I enjoyed the games, mostly because I didn't buy them, I borrowed them off a friend, but the physics felt extremely unrealistic. The cars felt like they had no weight, and you could just infinitely change the angle of a slide, like the car wasn't properly connected to the road or something. I will add though, that I owned the brilliant Colin Mcrae games on PS2, which had set the bar very high for when I borrowed those WRC games.

I plan on buying Seb Loeb Rally as well as WRC 5, because I'm an absolute racing nut lol, but I have to say so far WRC 5 looks like it'll be more realistic. I'll wait until I play them both to judge them.

I also can't wait for Dirt Rally!
 
Mike_grpA
I only played WRC 1,2 and 3 on PS2 and thought the physics were absolute rubbish. I enjoyed the games, mostly because I didn't buy them, I borrowed them off a friend, but the physics felt extremely unrealistic. The cars felt like they had no weight, and you could just infinitely change the angle of a slide, like the car wasn't properly connected to the road or something. I will add though, that I owned the brilliant Colin Mcrae games on PS2, which had set the bar very high for when I borrowed those WRC games.

I plan on buying Seb Loeb Rally as well as WRC 5, because I'm an absolute racing nut lol, but I have to say so far WRC 5 looks like it'll be more realistic. I'll wait until I play them both to judge them.

I also can't wait for Dirt Rally!
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I think you're talking about the Evolution studios games, which were good for their time but yeah physics weren't very advanced. The Milestone games (WRC 1-4) were just plain bad, but I bought them anyway because there were no alternatives except for the Dirt series which was just straight up arcade.
 
TiZzla
I think you're talking about the Evolution studios games, which were good for their time but yeah physics weren't very advanced. The Milestone games (WRC 1-4) were just plain bad, but I bought them anyway because there were no alternatives except for the Dirt series which was just straight up arcade.
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Ah yes I know the ones you're talking about now. I only played the first two of those ones on PS3. The first one I hired out from a video store, played it for about 5 minutes and took it back. It was just as unrealistic as the PS2 games (although for different reasons, the physics just felt really odd and clunky), but the graphics and presentation of the game just felt dated. I had Dirt 2, which I thought was actually pretty decent. Arcade physics, but with their origins rooted in simulation, kinda like Driveclub in that way, but it had some cool cars and events were actually fun. I didn't like the Dirt games after 2 though, they were crap IMO.

We really were starved last gen for good rally games. This gen looks like a bloody feast in comparison.
 
TiZzla
I think you're talking about the Evolution studios games, which were good for their time but yeah physics weren't very advanced. The Milestone games (WRC 1-4) were just plain bad, but I bought them anyway because there were no alternatives except for the Dirt series which was just straight up arcade.
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I feel WRC 3 and 4 were pretty solid, considering the size of Milestone at the time - maybe not to everyone's taste but they kept me occupied for a good few months and I enjoyed them.
 
Mike_grpA
I only played WRC 1,2 and 3 on PS2 and thought the physics were absolute rubbish. I enjoyed the games, mostly because I didn't buy them, I borrowed them off a friend, but the physics felt extremely unrealistic. The cars felt like they had no weight, and you could just infinitely change the angle of a slide, like the car wasn't properly connected to the road or something. I will add though, that I owned the brilliant Colin Mcrae games on PS2, which had set the bar very high for when I borrowed those WRC games.

I plan on buying Seb Loeb Rally as well as WRC 5, because I'm an absolute racing nut lol, but I have to say so far WRC 5 looks like it'll be more realistic. I'll wait until I play them both to judge them.

I also can't wait for Dirt Rally!
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Coming from someone who has played WRC 3(PS2) just yesterday as well as WRC 4 and Rally Evolved. I disagree completely. I too came from Colin McRae played 4 and 5 set the bar high for me, but once I tried WRC it just did everything better than CMR from graphics, sounds, stage deisgn, presentation and especially physics. I hope this new developer can get me excited about another WRC game.

before getting into Evolutions WRC series
 
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Jake24
Coming from someone who has played WRC 3(PS2) just yesterday as well as WRC 4 and Rally Evolved. I disagree completely. I too came from Colin McRae played 4 and 5 set the bar high for me, but once I tried WRC it just did everything better than CMR from graphics, sounds, stage deisgn, presentation and especially physics. I hope this new developer can get me excited about another WRC game.

before getting into Evolutions WRC series
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We'll have to agree to disagree then. The CMR games were so far beyond the WRC games on PS2 I am surprised anyone would actually believe they were even close, let alone think that WRC was better. Nothing about the WRC games was better than the CMR games.
 
MeanElf
I feel WRC 3 and 4 were pretty solid, considering the size of Milestone at the time - maybe not to everyone's taste but they kept me occupied for a good few months and I enjoyed them.
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3 and 4 had better graphics but the physics, sounds and stage designs were still bad, especially WRC 4 which was basically a hairpin simulator on some stages. The last straw for me was that WRC 4 on PC has a sound bug where the audio cuts out and the only way to get it back is to re-start the game. It was never patched and so i'm never spending money on a Milestone game again :)
 
TiZzla
3 and 4 had better graphics but the physics, sounds and stage designs were still bad, especially WRC 4 which was basically a hairpin simulator on some stages. The last straw for me was that WRC 4 on PC has a sound bug where the audio cuts out and the only way to get it back is to re-start the game. It was never patched and so i'm never spending money on a Milestone game again :)
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Again, I enjoyed all of that, especially the hairpin quantity - so, bad is a bit of a subjective observation ;) but that is your opinion and this is mine.
 
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Finish a Special Stage using tyres that aren't adapted to the road surface.
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That's a new one. The rest are pretty much the same as those used by Milestone for the previous games.
Jake24
Sounds easy to get all the achievements. Except the online ones.
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There is only one that you have to win online, participation in the special stages is all you need for the others. If online is anything like the previous titles, then we'll have ghosts to play against, and that's usually amusing to see other players wipeout spectacularly :)
 
er185
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I just noticed when he was showing the different stages one of the Monte Carlo stages was called Saint Laurent. That's my last name! Except mine is spelt like St. Laurent. I think I'm going to like this game lol.
 
ipswich1992
More reason to hate the Germans hehehee
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Why Germany, Belgium and France? I mean, I understand why France, what with the developer being a French company, plus the WRC games seems to have an extremely large proportion of French players...but Belgium?

And that's a big gap too, a full week.
 
MeanElf
Why Germany, Belgium and France? I mean, I understand why France, what with the developer being a French company, plus the WRC games seems to have an extremely large proportion of French players...but Belgium?

And that's a big gap too, a full week.
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My thoughts exactly.
Milestone games often come out 1-2 days earlier in Italy. But that's it.

The whole week is confusing lol.
Supply issues/limitations/allocation for such a 'small' sales product I imagine.
 

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