- COLIN MCRAE RALLY PC ALL CARS TRACKS PATCH SERIES
- COLIN MCRAE RALLY PC ALL CARS TRACKS PATCH WINDOWS
It should probably be pointed out at this stage that CMR2.0 was also released on the PSOne, and it’s clear that these shortcomings are possibly down to the technical limitations of the little grey box. Although it’s difficult to be critical when most racing games, including the very best ones, allow you to bounce harmlessly off the scenery with only a few seconds lost, it’s still something that I’m not particularly keen on. At other times, this doesn’t happen, and it’s usually to your great disadvantage as you slide off the road into a field and lose valuable seconds. Gameplay-wise, too, you don’t really have any freedom to leave the road, with misjudgements at corners usually meaning you either hit some unnaturally-solid roadside objects or, worse, a dreaded ‘invisible barrier’ surrounding the road. Though conditions change as you progress through the different rallies, of which there are eight (and these are largely as you would expect, with snow in Finland, dirt in Africa and rain, mud and shit in good ‘ol GB), the individual stages can be bereft of anything interesting to look at beyond the next jump or corner. First up, while the graphics remain perfectly acceptable, the scenery isn’t desperately impressive, and to be honest you’d have to have played this game quite a lot before you became too familiar with any of the stages.
In CMR2.0, though, it’s back to the traditional ‘mud and trees’ scenario, and this has a number of implications for the game.
COLIN MCRAE RALLY PC ALL CARS TRACKS PATCH WINDOWS
A few broken windows can’t hurt – unless a piece of broken glass became lodged in your eye, of course. Replays give you a good idea of just how much damage you’ve done to your car. We suggested in our review of the latter that perhaps the ‘Xtreme’ in that game’s title allowed the narrow dirt tracks and forestry normally seen in rally games to be replaced by wide-open spaces and beautiful scenery – and that this was clearly a good thing, with the whole thing not only looking fantastic but allowing for an altogether more interesting racing experience.
Frankly, I don’t really want to spend the whole of this review going on about how CMR2.0 isn’t as good as Rally Championship Xtreme, so I’ll just say it once: Colin McRae Rally 2.0 isn’t as good as Rally Championship Xtreme (okay, technically that’s twice already).
COLIN MCRAE RALLY PC ALL CARS TRACKS PATCH SERIES
We’ve also covered CM2.0‘s closest rival, Rally Championship Xtreme, on the site already, with the reviewer in question brazenly dismissing the claims of the McRae series without mentioning that he hadn’t really played any of them.Īs a quick glance at the score suggests, though, an extended play of the game has proved this admittedly rash assessment largely correct. We’re going for numero, er, two for a number of reasons, partly because it was possibly the most well-received at the time, and partly because the original (looks a bit ropey, only supports 3dfx acceleration) and the later games in the series (a bit ‘new’, system requirements that would make my PC weep) aren’t really suitable FFG material. Īs with any successful sport or racing franchise, there have been quite a few McRae games released over the years. These days, he’s arguably more well known for putting his name to a series of video games, although any blow to his ego must have been at least partially mitigated by the bucketload of cash he’s (probably) made out of the whole enterprise. A quick check of Wikipedia suggests he used to be a pretty good one too, and at the peak of his powers, it’s fair to suggest that his name might have registered in most people’s brains as belonging to someone vaguely famous for something. I’m no expert, but I think Colin McRae is possibly a rally driver.