art of rally Reviews

Incredibly easy to pick up & have fun with. Difficult to master. Serious bang-for-your-buck of a game. Great car selection with a lot of obscure choices that you'll find yourself going back to. Would absolutely recommend to any racing enthusiast.

A love letter to the sport. If you have even a passing interest in Group B or rally in general, you'll love this game! It's a bit tough starting out, but by the end when you git gud, you'll be throwing 800+HP group A monsters comfortably into every corner. The recent performance patch made the game much smoother. I just wish we had pace notes!

Decently fun rally driving game. [h2]Gameplay[/h2] Both career and free roam modes are available. Career mode brings you through 6 different eras of rally: group 2, group 3, group 4, group b, group s and group a. Each era (at least up to group b, i haven't played any further) covers 5 seasons, which are made up of one or more rallies, with each rally having one or more stages (the individual driving parts). You are able to restart stages, however not doing so gives special rewards at the end of the season. Note that you need to play the campaign to unlock new cars, however some cars of all classes present in the campaign are available from the start. The free roam modes consist of large, open maps with 4 types of collectibles scattered around for you to obtain. These are cassetes, image spots, letters and a van. The image spots and the van do not unlock anything, however collecting the 5 casettes unlocks a new song and collecting the 5 letters (R-A-L-L-Y) unlocks the next free-roam map. Cars cannot be unlocked from playing the free-roam maps, however, the default group s and group a cars should have enough power to collect all of the collectibles available. Driving the cars is reasonably difficult, especially with the faster cars in the game (e.g group b). If you're struggling, i would recommend to practise with the group 2 or group 3 cars in free roam, as these are more controllable than others. [h2]Art and music[/h2] The graphics are made in a low poly style which looks very different to other games, but in my opinion looks very nice. I also really like the music. [h2]Performance and bugs[/h2] The game performs very well. The only bug I've encountered is a minor visual bug, which has since been fixed. While I have a pretty decent laptop, I have never encountered any issues with lag or slowdowns. [h2]Content[/h2] The game has enough cars that you can find a vehicle for every playstyle, at least up to group b. There is a decent amount of tracks and environments, so it doesn't feel repetitive and weather options allow for new challenges on the same tracks. [h2]Summary/important points[/h2] Rally driving game with career and free roam modes. Would recommend it if it's on sale, not sure about it for full price. I find it fun.

Driving distilled, with fantastic handling and physics. Simple visuals hide a deceptively-realistic experience. Amazing priorities maintained here. Great job, devs!

The Good: - Driving physics! There's a big difference between FWD and RWD cars: RWD are more nimble but oversteer whilst the FWD cars understeer but are easier to control. Different surfaces all have their own feel (dirt vs pavement vs wet pavement) etc. and provides a lot of nice variety. - This game is gorgeous, the soundtrack fits nicely and they're lots of nice touches like the branding, car backstories, fans jumping out of the way, the brake rotors glowing red hot and more. The Jumps are also sweet. The Bad: - Overpriced, not enough content to justify buying it off-sale - Could definitely be better optimised, I found it pretty demanding to run on maximum settings. - Zones of compression/decompression do not mess around and will make your car stick to the ground like glue or make your car slide like its on ice, way more than what would be expected. Its nice to see this added to the physics of the game but its over exaggerated for sure. Overall this game is great, especially for fans of old school rally, just wait for a scale and don't expect super arcade-y physics.

Fun to learn the cars and how best to drive. The cars are all really distinct and engaging to learn. The maps and tracks, while simple at first glance, are really well thought out and clearly were crafted with a lot of care.

very much enjoyed this game, soundtrack goes crazy hard and the graphic are a good difference from other games. Note: for the best experience (IMO) play with a controller.

Probably my favorite racing game so far. It's really special. It's a simcade, so don't expect an easy arcade racer if you're coming from Forza for example. It's closer to Dirt Rally. But this game really shines in showing the history of rally from goup 2 to group B, and explores what could have happened if group S was never scrapped, and group A had no power limits. It takes some artistic liberties, like ignoring the fact that group S was supposed to have a power limit below that of group B. All in all this is a fantastic experience, and a great introduction to rally history if you are a newcomer. This game got me into rally by making me interested in learning more about group B where I learned about Michele Mouton, the greatest woman rally driver of all time. A truly amazing piece of history. And you can drive her car and even race her in career mode, which is awesome! Highly recommend

Phenomenal little game. 100% takes sometime but I was never bored doing it. The driving is very fun, the cars all feel unique. The Fujin is excellent if you love rolling after hitting any size incline and the rotary vehicles are excellent if you love spinning when tapping the gas! (I love both of these vehicles) My only gripe is some of the track borders can be inconsistent. Some maps you can cut heavily while others (germany/sardinia) if you even slightly go off track your car is reset. But that's only a minor critique. Fantastic work dev team! Excited to see what you do in the future!

This is my favorite casual racing game. It's easy enough that you don't need a racing wheel to do well, yet challenging enough that you'll still be learning new ways to improve your times long after beating the career mode. The career mode progression through various classes of rally racing really helps you gradually acclimate to the faster classes of cars. I also really like that there's more rewards for not burning up your restarts. The rewards for not using resets are only cosmetic, so you're not missing out on vehicles if you do use restarts, but it's a nice incentive to not immediately reach for the restart button every time you make a minor mistake. For me at least, having that extra incentive helped put me in the mindset of adapting to my own mistakes, rather than striving for the perfect run every single time as I went through career mode. On the topic of striving for perfect runs though: time trials are a fantastic way to try for those perfect runs. I only checked out time trials after beating the career mode, but it's been quite fun challenging myself to beat my own ghosts in time trials mode, and doing so adds a lot of replayability.