wrc 10 fia world rally championship review

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So what could they possibly do different or add to what was already an excellent and complete WRC 9 game from last year? How about a 50 th Anniversary Edition that celebrates all the great moments from WRC’s impressive 48 years of racing? Yes, it’s coming two years early, but we’ll overlook that. It’s basically 10-20 seconds to load on PS5 and 30-60 seconds on my PC, but I also suspect I am loading in higher res textures as well on the PC. The one thing I did notice where the PS5 had a slight edge was on load times that were about a third of my PC’s SSD, but that is likely third gen versus fourth gen drive technology.

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My RTX3090 was running this game flawlessly with all the settings maxed out at 4K and WRC 10 on PC is just about as photo-real as it gets. The good news is the PC version is amazing and highly scalable thanks to pages of video options none of which were available on the PS5. Even an option for 60fps Performance vs 30fps Quality would fix this.

Unless or until the PS5 version is patched or Sony figures out their VRR issues I cannot recommend anyone play this on the PS5. Even changing the various race views didn’t help. The cinematic pre-race beauty shots of the course looked great, but once behind the wheel the fluctuating framerate and horizontal screen tear forced me to quit. I switched over to my Logitech G29, which resolved most of my control issues, but the game still looked really bad in motion. The framerate is all over the place making it incredibly hard to steer with any accuracy using the DualSense. Textures are fuzzy and there is some very aggressive motion blur happening. There is something about that level, either geometry or texture complexity or perhaps just sheer scale of the course, but the framerate tanks hard and there is copious amounts of screen tearing taking place at every hairpin turn – and this track has lots of them. Everything is okay until you hit that first Anniversary event, the 1973 Acropolis Rally. Clearly the developers are trying to push the PS5 beyond it’s already impressive boundaries, so while my RTX3090 card runs this game flawlessly the PS5 is so bad I got physically ill and had to quit playing.

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I had hoped some sort of patch would have fixed things but sadly no. I personally found the PS5 unplayable in its current state, and by current I mean 30 minutes prior to writing this review.

Like last year, I reviewed WRC 10 on both the PC and PS5 only this year the results weren’t as favorable when it came to the PS5 version, so let’s get into it.

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The series just keeps improving on every element physics, graphics, liveries, locations, and all the intricate back-office dealings taking place between the actual racing. I’ve been saying this for the past three or four games in this series but WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship is just about as real as it gets without actually climbing behind the wheel. There was an inexplicable euphoria that washed over me, and even though I only placed third in the event it was still a triumphant experience, and I am already looking forward to next season – I think New Zealand will be a fine destination in 2022. The only thing missing was the cheering trackside crowds.įive months later I am playing WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship and that same track shows up in the career calendar rotation, and I am instantly transported back to the actual driver’s seat, gripping my Logitech racing wheel, finessing the gas, clutch, and brake as I navigated all the twists and turns of this near-perfect recreation of the real-world track.

Until then I had only driven rally cars in a few locations around the States, but nothing could prepare me for driving an actual championship course that still had all the race trimmings installed. Simply witnessing this event was an amazing experience, but the real treat was the day after the race when I was allowed to actually drive the course thanks to Team Subaru and some string-pulling from my racing school instructor. Back in April of this year I had the thrilling privilege of being in Zagreb for the 45 th running of the Croatia Rally.