World Rally Championship (2001 video game)

World Rally Championship
Developer(s) Evolution Studios
Publisher(s)
Series World Rally Championship
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release date(s)
  • EU 30 November 2001
  • JP 14 March 2002
  • NA 21 March 2002
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

World Rally Championship is a rally driving game for the PlayStation 2. It is the first rallying game to be officially licensed by the FIA World Rally Championship and is based on the 2001 WRC season.

Features

WRC features 21 drivers representing 7 teams and all 14 venues from the season. Game modes feature quick rally, single rally, championship and time trial. Each car is made from around 8000 polygons.[1] There are also cheats that will make the game funnier (Helium Co-Driver, Psychedelic effects, Underwater view, No chassis and Low Gravity)

Teams and drivers

21 drivers and seven teams appear on the game. Although Citroen did not undertake a full season, they are featured on the game at all events and thus eligible to score team points in championship mode.

Team Drivers
France Peugeot Total Finland Marcus Grönholm
France Didier Auriol
France Gilles Panizzi
Finland Harri Rovanpera
United Kingdom Ford Motor Co Spain Carlos Sainz
United Kingdom Colin McRae1
France Francois Delecour
Japan Subaru World Rally Team United Kingdom Richard Burns
Estonia Markko Martin
Norway Petter Solberg
Japan Toshihiro Arai
Japan Mitsubishi Ralliart Finland Tommi Makinen
Belgium Freddy Loix
South Korea Hyundai World Rally Team Italy Piero Liatti
Sweden Kenneth Eriksson
United Kingdom Alister McRae
Czech Republic Skoda Motorsport Germany Armin Schwarz
Belgium Bruno Thiry
France Citroën Sport France Philippe Bugalski
Spain Jesús Puras
Sweden Thomas Radstrom

1Because Colin McRae had his own video game series at this time, Sony could not acquire the license for him to appear, so he appeared on the game under the title of "Ford Driver".

Rallies

The game features all 14 rallies on the 2001 WRC calendar.

Reception

World Rally Championship was released to positive acclaim. Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating in the 0–100 range, calculated an average score of 80 out of 100, indicating "Generally favorable reviews" based on 21 reviews.[2] GameRankings assigned it an average review score of 81% based on 27 reviews.[3] On release, Famitsu magazine scored the PlayStation 2 version of the game a 35 out of 40.[4]

See also

References

  1. http://www.futuregamez.net/ps2games/wrc2/review.html
  2. "World Rally Championship for PlayStation 2 reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  3. "World Rally Championship for PlayStation 2". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  4. プレイステーション2 - WRC ~ワールド・ラリー・チャンピオンシップ~. Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.74. 30 June 2006.
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