EA Sports WRC

The biggest rally franchise is back with a great title that has something for everyone. There is still room for improvement but, overall, it’s a solid option for rally fans.

With this return to the world of rally racing, Codemasters has delivered something special with EA Sports WRC. It’s rock-solid and jam-packed, and I’d expect any gearhead to get lost in it for hours. Rally fans rejoice!

Simply put, EA Sports WRC is a great game for both casual players and rally veterans, as it perfectly balances between arcade feel and realism. It would be even better if it weren’t for one of the industry’s biggest headaches – poor optimization that sucks some of the joy out of the experience.

EA's first WRC game is a good entry. With a reasonable price and plenty of content, fans will have a great time with this. The career mode is not too special, but offers enough variety and being able to build your own car is a nice extra. In addition, the gameplay is very strong thanks to good control, but the title does suffer from performance issues and visually it is rather uneven. That said, EA Sports WRC is well worth playing.

WRC has paid off for its long development process. There are more, longer stages, plenty of vehicles and various modes to keep you in the game. Once the technical pain is out of the way, there is no need to go back to Dirt Rally 2.0.

EA Sports WRC delivers an incredible legacy of the WRC, with new features that should entertain players who are fans of rally games. It has visual limitations, incompatible with the current generation, whose customization proposal tries to overcome existing flaws. It stands out, but with limitations.

EA Sports WRC will not be remembered as the best rally game because we are sure that the following titles will polish the small but numerous flaws it has, but it is a phenomenal starting point for the new Codemasters in the world of rally, and fully enjoyable since its launch with, moreover, the best response with a controller and steering wheel that we have had the pleasure to test.

WRC is a fantastic racing game. Codemasters has created an excellent entry in its rally racing library, and its first official World Rally Championship game is an accessible but still challenging experience that is all about mastery. It’s strong title in its own right, with scope to build into a fantastic ongoing series.

Those itching for a solid rally racer with plenty of modes and features backed by solid gameplay will find plenty to like about EA Sports WRC.

EA Sports WRC combines Codemasters' off-road racing pedigree with officially licensed cars, teams, and locations. The result is a confident and robust rally game that boasts super-fun driving, intense and challenging stages, and all the modes you could expect. It's only really let down by technical and performance problems. Here's hoping those will be ironed out in due course, because this is otherwise a rewarding rally game that gets (nearly) everything right.

Codemasters delivers on the track and features some of the most intense and nerve-wrecking rallye-action of the past years. Considering this is the first outing under the new license and with the Unreal-Engine, EA Sports WRC is a more than solid start, but also has its flaws in career-mode and overall balancing and presentation.