After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series
After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series
Well count me interested. I could really go for a version of Dirt Rally 2 with more multiplayer versatility
How was the EA/Codemasters WRC title compared to the Dirt Rally titles? I didn't buy it because it has Denuvo DRM, even on Steam.
I have both. EA WRC looks, feels and runs WAY worse compared to Dirt Rally 2.0, and that's on my fairly beefy 5800x3d / 7800 xt desktop machine. Dr2.0 also runs perfectly on my steam deck, while I haven't even bothered to try running EA WRC on it (it would run like shit if it ran at all, plus the install size is like a gajillion GB).
On the upside, the tracks are way bigger / longer in EA WRC, some of them are a bit more interesting, and there's a cool pseudo-roguelite mechanic in the campaign mode where every week you choose what to do (main race or side race to appease the sponsor, recruitment of team members, resting, etc.). That said, I couldn't bring myself to finish a single season due to how pathetically janky the driving is.
Seems to still have Denuvo and even has EA anticheat, which means no Linux support, even for single player.
Couldn't tell you I'm afraid, I also haven't bought it. I grabbed DR2 because I saw it really cheap on sale and just wanted a rally sim rather than seeking out a specific one
I loved Grid and Dirt 3, but haven't really played any of the games since. I played Grid 2 a little bit when it went on sale. I'm interested if this new one is as good as those were.
Dirt 3 was absolute garbage. Dirt Rally was great, if not a bit spartan, and Dirt Rally 2.0 is what I can recommend as possibly the best rallying game since Richard Burns.
I'm not sure what crack this other dude is smoking but dirt 3 was awesome. I loved all the drifting time trials. Totally reminded me of Project Gotham racing.
I loved Project Gotham too!
I have not played a wrc game in years I might have to check this one out.
Eeeew, Nacon. No thanks.
Won't be long and codemasters will end up like all other legendary studios like Maxis, Westwoods, Origin and many many more.... On the EA graveyard
Is this the same Rally series as Top Gear Rally on N64? I loved that game.
I'm afraid not. "Rally" is just the generic term for this kind of motorsport
Seems to be just going back to the previous publisher, which didn't exactly release amazing rally games when they had the license. Maybe they'll surprise me, but I suspect Dirt Rally 2.0 and Richard Burns Rally will continue to be the main options for a while longer.
I wouldn't hold your breath. Word is, those recent EA layoffs hit a lot of the Codemasters people, including the teams working on their rally games. They mostly kept the F1 team because that series inexplicably sells tons every release (never been an F1 fan myself, but there does seem to be an appetite for those games). Anyone not on the F1 team was moved to another internal EA team whose name escapes me at the moment and they're working as a support team for others.
I was talking about Nacon (the new/old WRC publisher) not EA or Codemasters, but agreed.
But isn't that a good thing for this? It means the old Codemasters team is no longer at EA, and maybe they'll find a job here now.