The end of 2010 is looking either amazing or agonizing for driving game fans, depending on how big your piggy bank is. Of course, the daddy (and mummy, and possibly children) of them all – Gran Turismo 5 – is out in November, so surely all over driving games should head for the hills?
It appears not if World Rally Championship 2010 developer Black Bean’s attitude is anything to go by. Fabio Paglianti and head of physics designer Irvin Zonca had the following to say;
“We are not scared about Gran Turismo. No because our game is completely different to Gran Turismo.
It’s another kind of game. We give the players a completely different experience. It is based on the official license, which has been missing from the market for the last five years for PlayStation users and I don’t remember if there’s been a WRC game on Xbox and never on PC I think so it’s like a new kind of market in this sense.
It’s based on a different type of driving style because with a game like [Gran Turismo 5] you drive faster but like a real car in the road. In rally it’s completely different you have to understand; what is the ground, the grip, the speed? And then you can try and do a handbrake manoeuvre, you can try and do a counter-steering manoeuvre so it’s a completely different way of driving.”
Before everyone jumps up claiming Gran Turismo has rally races, according to Black Bean it’s far from the real deal;
“In Gran Turismo you don’t have the official 2010 cars. They are not updated. For example, Tuscany is not a real location.
If you look at the way the graphics are polished, they’re really beautiful but the fact is that it’s not real because you have this wide circuit covered with dust, it’s a circuit with one type of gravel instead of the tarmac.
If we would have done Tuscany we would have had not a circuit but a starting point and an ending point, with a lot of fans, different terrains, different objects in the circuit. With Gran Turismo there are no trees and stones and bushes in the circuit, it’s like racing on a dirty track so it’s really really different.
A fan of WRC can find, finally, a WRC game for the console and for the PC. For someone who doesn’t know anything about WRC can taste the difference, which is the difference between WRC and all the other kind of games, because it’s a rally game – completely different.”
We think it’s great to have such faith and conviction in your product, but can WRC 2010 really overcome Gran Turismo’s ‘jack of all trade’ approach? We shall see when WRC hits the shelves in October.
Source: CVG
JakeMadge
I’m actually more looking forward to F1 2010 than GT 5, that’s why I pre-ordered it instead of GT 5
dpb135
Agree with that, cant wait for F1 2010 from codies. Also got GT5 on pre-order tho, it has to be good after all this time its taken (im looking at AI, dont be shit like other GT games)
Beelzie14
2nd this
andytorr
I had WRC on the PC yeeeears ago… Shouldn’t he know this?
bunimomike
Unless you’re related, no. :-)
For me, if an official rally game can nail the hell-for-leather style that IS rally, then they will always trump whatever PD come up with. The very thing that GT lacks is that griminess. That rough and ready style of racing. Every frikkin’ GT race felt like it was on a billiard table. The rally sections being an “oooh the tires are bumping up and down at random but no real deformation on the track exists” yawn-fest. It looked lovely on replay but the experience itself was still way off the mark.
kahana95
DIRT 2 is rally right because that was an awesome game and well worth anyone’s time. Any news of another game based on the GRID/DIRT engine?
retro_
Isn’t there a FPS coming out that used the GRID/DIRT engine? So many FPS’s in development I don’t know which one it is !!
Forrest_01
A First Person Shooter using a Driving Engine? Really?
shakengandulf
”Operation flashpoint- dragon rising” I believe used Dirt 2’s engine.
maneorix
DIRT2 isn’t rally, it’s an off-road racer with a few Rally tracks thrown in just so the fanbase didn’t implode..
Beelzie14
I agree. Hopefully the next iteration will return to European rallying as the game didn’t exactly go stellar in the States anyway.
BryOnRye
“Tuscany is not a real location”
Yes it is, I’ve been there!
Beelzie14
It’s not an area that the WRC visits though – I think that’s what he meant by that comment.
CNWLshadow
WRC/CM games win hands down compared to GT, they had the mighty Metro 6R4 (and other overlooked rally cars, not just the ones everybodys heard of )- need I say more.
Beelzie14
Audi S2 Quattro too
Sevchenko
sounds like he’s clinging to a lot of small technicalities to over compensate and gain press and attention. poor guy
Spotter5
Buying this on day one for sure. I love the rally games, plus I get to drive as Kimi Raikkonen!!! :D
Colinbarr66
I’ll probably pick this up, doubt I’ll be buying GT5 and I do love rally games.
freezebug2
I am looking forward to this game but I must warn you all that their customer support is pretty poor. There is a problem with SBK-X that they have acknowledged and announced a patch to fix, but have done F*** all…I’m guessing through desperation to get this game released and neglect of previous releases.
topgear
but WRC game will be multi platform so then on PC so it will most likely beat gran turismo 5 hands down graphics wise and for some strange reason GTPSP rallying was very annoying as the cars were very twitchy