My Previous EA SPORTS WRC Reviews:
At 100 Hours: https://youtu.be/ykEHaB4b2Qg
On Day One: https://youtu.be/puFuh_wcMeM
Other Recommended Videos:
A RALLY LEGEND’S FORGOTTEN GAME? A Retrospective on Sébastien Loeb Rally Evo (SLRE): https://youtu.be/kveuhJR2uMM
Škoda’s Pro Setup vs. Default In-Game! Comparing EA SPORTS WRC Setups: https://youtu.be/refeqTrqHeg
Col de Turini – DiRT Rally 2.0 vs. EA SPORTS WRC vs. Real Life: https://youtu.be/Co4KSeGfrwo
WRC or DiRT – Which is More Realistic? Colin’s Crest (Vargåsen) Comparison: https://youtu.be/6b-G1G6xJTA
Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – The Stages
02:56 – The Cars
05:01 – Moments
06:45 – Rally School
07:20 – Modding
08:35 – Performance Issues
10:00 – In Defence of EA SPORTS WRC
12:53 – Conclusion
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The driving itself is fantastic but everything around that feels incomplete. Still love it, and relieved its not an annual release.
I finally got to upgrade my xbox one to a series x and this was the first game i got (well waiting for it to arrive still).
Wanna really play with the 309 in the game 😊🎉
Hope the game doesnt let me down.
I absolutely love this game. Cannot wait for the expansion pack.l would love if there were more rally cars from the 70,s and 80,s. 5hat was my favourite era of rally cars.there again im 66 and a bit biased
This game is a funny arcade rally advertisement for WRC and nothing above. Car handling is not great, UI not great no information about the car and so on. Special Stages are not quite realistic only some corners or surroundings pretending to be similar but again miles behind the real stages. Livery's creation is pointless.
Environmental damage is non-existent. Car damage is not as spectacular as in DR2.0.
RBR with mods that cost the creators thousands of times less than EA propaganda are of much better quality, not to mention that real rally drivers helped there and not rookie Jon Armstrong who still has problems with imparting knowledge to make the game more playable or realistic.
In my opinion, EA WRC is a pure arcade rally racing game to kill a few minutes sitting on the sofa and drinking beer with a cigarette. RBR is an orgasm on the face after the first stage. And again the game content will never replace the broken playability. Even back to 97-98 when I bought the first Colin McRae game is still one of the best funny arcade old rally games for me side to Sega Rally. In reality this game is aimed for the younger generation of players who never drove a real car or just with little experience. Still many many many many many things are totally wrong with this game and definitely not a great or good one but just like above a funny arcade rally game for killing a couple minutes on the sofa only this.
good video!
Totally agree with the 7/10 comments and it is a really good game
Where did you get the different liveries? Great video by the way
Great video, and totally agree with your points and opinions. Yearly updates are the way forward but with issues that still exist in the game/game engine a content update should be the last thing they are putting out before addressing the issues. I have a high end PC (7800x3d + 7900xtx oc) and still suffer with graphical issues in game that just shouldnt exist
This game is a night mare on PC😢doesnt even look nice as it does on console
This is so well put together dude totally spot on. I hammered Dirt Rally and then didn’t really go to DR 2.0 cos the content wasn’t really there. I did play it eventually but I absolutely love WRC. Way too much hate cos of the EA overlords.
The physics are abysmal, VR almost unplayable, everything else becomes irrelevant, RBR RSF is still the King by a HUGE margin (sadly). Not many people know it, but Dirt Rally 1 with physics mod is also amazing, but there is literally almost no content… So… Dirt Rally 1 with physics mod and all content of EA WRC 23 would be spectacular and it was very easy to do for Codemasters in theory.
I love this game. I play on ps5 with no problems. It's awesome and I can't wait for the wrc24 expansion….come on
What I hate the most is that they removed the daily/weekly/monthly challenges in favor of 'clubs' which is nowhere near as engaging and splits the already small playerbase.
I have +100 hours in both DR2.0 and eaWRC each.
I love this game, better than DR2: Better physics (cant argue the DR2 tarmac was awful compared to this one), better stages, and WAY more content on launch. All for $40!
I feel bad for Codemasters they have the most whiney fans I’ve ever seen for a game.
My only real issue is that VR needs more work.
Game is great, but I literally cannot even install it and before I tried to reinstall it I was getting files corrupt crashes. Its not even about optimization the game doesn't work at all for a lot of people.
I was gonna ask how you got all them cool liveries then realised youve got a PC version. I wish they could add more "real" liveries
A great summary! A few days ago I compared Dirt 2, WRC Generations and EA WRC back to back.
Generations I found undriveable and unlistenable to. Dirt 2 felt the most pleasant to drive, but also not very grounded, with a very cinematic feel which is more nostalgia than actual beauty to me – that surprised me for sure, because most everyone else seems to prefer the visuals of 2.0. And you're right, in the base Dirt 2 version there is literally no content 🙂
Anyway, I'm just hoping Codies will eventually switch to Unreal 5. There are so many native functions of that engine which can make a game feel truly immersive, it would be an instant future update purchase from me. Especially the stages deserve way more love, there are portions which just feel unfinished and empty, like if you drove off the map in some other game…
The rally school could definitely have more intermediate and advanced content. It's really just beginner technique and difficulty and that's it.
I've been saying this on a couple other videos, but what makes DR 2.0 pretty are computationally cheap: god rays, lense flair, and color saturation. It also makes DR 2 look less realistic than EA WRC. And when you notice that almost every track in DR 2 is a tunnel of trees, you can't unsee it. The few times you see past the tree tunnel, the render distance to a 2d backdrop is laughable. And this is how DR 2 has such good performance: these clever graphics tricks that the complainers are taking for granted. When you look for a mountain across a valley in DR 2, you see a flat, 2d, dark silhouette. In EA WRC, you see a 3D mountain with 3D trees, rivers, and waterfalls. It's no surprise that requires more GPU power. To think you can get 35 miles of that is incredible.
The DR 2 engine has served its purpose, but it had become a dead end. I'm glad they went with UE, there's much more space to grow and future engine improvements will come at much lower cost.
10 or 20 quid for the new season expansion seems naively optimistic to me. But I hope you're right.
The only problem with this game is the EA logo on it. The game gets a lot of hate simply because of that. Great review, I fully agree about people hating everything, this is the best Rally content put there. Codemaster has a 5 year deal with WRC and I hope they can it extend it.