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 Take it easy behind the wheel and you just might have a blast playing V-Rally. By Gerald Villoria | Dec. 13, 2002  75Good
The Lowdown: The control is just about unbearable, but if you can teach yourself to overcompensate, then you may have a great time.
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Platform: PlayStation 2
 Game Type: Racing Developer: Eden Studios Publisher: Inforgrames ESRB: Everyone Full Game Information Advertisement
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The first thing you notice when giving the cars of V-Rally 3 a whirl is the game's polished graphics. Nicely detailed textures paint an impressive landscape throughout, and the course designs are well laid out. There are six different European locations, including France, Sweden, Great Britain, and Germany. Each country's courses are in turn split into 24 different segments which you must traverse. The twists and turns of each route, along with the natural terrain contribute towards creating a very believable experience, although there are some noticeable pop-up and draw-in issues that can sometimes pull you out of the game's palatable visuals. From the detailed foliage, to the animated fauna of the woodland environments, you'll find little to complain about where eye-candy is concerned. Environmental effects are incredibly well-handled as well, including splashy raindrops that gather in puddles, and thick, rolling fog that succeeds at obscuring your vision just enough to be a significant factor without being overly bothersome. You will, however, be greatly irritated at the glaring sunlight in Sweden, which although very realistic, makes navigating a course quite difficult. Best of all is the great attention to detail in the cars themselves. The cars are replicas of real-life 1.6- and 2.0-liter machines from manufacturers like Fiat, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Subaru, and Peugeot. Each high-poly count automobile benefits from impressive reflection and shadowing effects, but their most impressive feature is the real-time damage modeling. Every time you happen to clip a tree with a fender, you'll notice an accumulation of dents and bumps and some seriously caked on mud and dirt on your car's surface. Particularly serious collisions and rollovers will result in the complete loss of your fenders, as well as smashed windows, smashed tail lights, and even a lost wheel, which doesn't immediately end your race but pretty much eliminates any chance for a decent time. Capping off the realistic visuals is an active racing crew within the vehicle, including a driver that nicely keeps up with a corresponding animation for each of your commands. Considering how much is being shown onscreen at once, it's quite impressive that the game always runs at a solid 60 frames per second. The activities you can participate in before each race are also nicely presented. When you tool with your car's many different modifiable features, including the suspension and ride height, you can see the effect this has on your car immediately. In fact, you can delve quite deeply into full-on customization of your vehicle's performance, including the opening and closing of your front and rear differentials, and modification of your gearbox ratios. These activities are necessary to tweak your car into a competition-winning state, and thus the only way to succeed in the heavy-duty career mode. Next: The game's only (major) flaw » Page: 1 2 |
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