WRC 4

This article is about the 2004 video game known as WRC 4: The Official Game of the FIA World Rally Championship. For the 2013 video game, see WRC 4: FIA World Rally Championship.
WRC 4
Developer(s) Evolution Studios
Publisher(s)
Series World Rally Championship
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release date(s)
  • EU 22 October 2004
  • JP 7 April 2005
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player

WRC 4: The Official Game of the FIA World Rally Championship (or WRC 4 for short) is a racing video game developed by Evolution Studios for the PlayStation 2. It is the fourth rallying game to be officially licensed by the FIA World Rally Championship and is based on the 2004 WRC season.

Game modes

Quick Race

In a quick race, the player will play a randomly selected stage with a randomly selected car and driver.

Time Trial

During the race, the player will have to beat a time trial (although this is not needed to advance in the game). The time target will be based on the 1st place time ranking. If beaten, the best time will be the new target time to beat.

Championship

The Championship mode lets the player play through the 2004 WRC season. The player must play through this mode based on the real life calendar, following the schedule for the 2004 WRC season. Championship mode ends when all 16 countries are played, but the player can stop playing after any stage, because the game saves after each stage is finished. The player can play all six stages in a country, but normally the player will have to buy the stage to play it in other modes.

Events

Pro Driver Challenge

The Pro Driver Challenge is a career mode where the player takes the role of a rookie who has to start from the weak Super 1600 class and must complete a series of tasks to enter the WRC class.

Super Special Challenge

In Super Special Challenge, the player will play against an AI generated opponent in all SSS course in the country's alphabetical order instead of the season's chronology.

Single rally

In a single rally, the player will play all six stages in a selected country.

Test Track

The test track mode lets the player practice their driving skills or take part in rally tests akin to the license tests of the Gran Turismo series.

Teams and drivers

The car models feature 20,000 polygons.[1]

Team Cars Drivers
Japan Subaru World Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRC 2004
Subaru Impreza Extreme 04		 Norway Petter Solberg
Finland Mikko Hirvonen
France Citroën-Total Citroën Xsara WRC
Citroën Xsara Extreme 04		 France Sébastien Loeb
Spain Carlos Sainz
France Team Peugeot Total Peugeot 307 WRC
Peugeot 307 Extreme 04		 Finland Marcus Grönholm
Finland Harri Rovanperä
United Kingdom BP Ford World Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC
Ford Focus Extreme 04		 Estonia Markko Märtin
Belgium François Duval
Japan Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports Team Mitsubishi Lancer WRC04 France Gilles Panizzi
Italy Gianluigi Galli
Finland Kristian Sohlberg
Spain Daniel Solà
Czech Republic Škoda Motorsport Škoda Fabia WRC
Škoda Fabia Extreme 04		 Germany Armin Schwarz
Finland Toni Gardemeister

Other cars

Group N4

Super 1600

Rallies

All 16 rallies from the official 2004 WRC calendar appear on the game. The game features 230 stages covering over 1,700km.[1]

Monaco Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo

Sweden Uddeholm Swedish Rally

Mexico Rally México

New Zealand Rally New Zealand

Cyprus Cyprus Rally

Greece Acropolis Rally

Turkey Rally of Turkey

Argentina Rally Argentina

Finland Neste Rally Finland

Germany ADAC Rallye Deutschland

Japan Rally Japan

United Kingdom Wales Rally GB

Italy Supermag Rally d'Italia - Sardinia

France Rallye de France - Tour de Corse

Spain Rally Catalunya - Rally de España

Australia Telstra Rally Australia

Reception

The game received an average score of 81.86% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 18 reviews.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Official Sony press release
  2. ↑ "WRC 4 for PlayStation 2". GameRankings. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
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