Absolutely unplayable.
I said about Sega Rally 2 that it was liking driving on oil, but what I meant was driving on a ROAD covered in oil. In this game it feels like there's more oil than road. I think I only made about 20% of the turns without bumping into walls, a lot of which are invisible. I don't understand why in 2007 you still gotta have invisible walls. Colin McRae Rally had traversable roadside in 1998. And if you wanna put up a wall, why not put up an actual real wall like the first two Sega Rally games did?
But forget the actual gameplay, this game feels like a downgrade from the very start. The menu is extremely limited. There are very few options, aside from changing the speedometer (which this game calls "speedo" for some reason). And the only present modes are: championship, quick race and time attack. What happened to that mode from the second game, the name of which I forgot, where you tweaked your car before every race according to the road texture and climate conditions? In fact, what happened to car specs? You're now choosing a car blindly, and then you get to pick between one of the two modes for it: off-road or on-road. But you only pick this ONCE before a championship, which contains different types of tracks, so what is the point of it?
The tracks look kinda nice, but somehow still worse than the first two games. Like, they added all the same elements (wildlife and scripted events), but they all feel so uninspired and lifeless. For example, in the first game a helicopter would suddenly appear and cruise around alongside you; here you might see some jets fly by. The former is a lengthy animation that becomes a memorable part of the race; the latter is a brief inconsequential occurrence in the background, blink and you'll miss it. The music, which has been one of the biggest strengths of the series, is completely unremarkable here. I don't know what this genre is called, but it's like a mix of generic orchestral score and generic rock music.
I can't imagine why anybody would wanna play this in 2007, when the rally market was extremely saturated in the 2000s. The only thing that stands out to me about Sega Rally Revo is the dirt physics, but that's hardly a reason enough to play this.
I said about Sega Rally 2 that it was liking driving on oil, but what I meant was driving on a ROAD covered in oil. In this game it feels like there's more oil than road. I think I only made about 20% of the turns without bumping into walls, a lot of which are invisible. I don't understand why in 2007 you still gotta have invisible walls. Colin McRae Rally had traversable roadside in 1998. And if you wanna put up a wall, why not put up an actual real wall like the first two Sega Rally games did?
But forget the actual gameplay, this game feels like a downgrade from the very start. The menu is extremely limited. There are very few options, aside from changing the speedometer (which this game calls "speedo" for some reason). And the only present modes are: championship, quick race and time attack. What happened to that mode from the second game, the name of which I forgot, where you tweaked your car before every race according to the road texture and climate conditions? In fact, what happened to car specs? You're now choosing a car blindly, and then you get to pick between one of the two modes for it: off-road or on-road. But you only pick this ONCE before a championship, which contains different types of tracks, so what is the point of it?
The tracks look kinda nice, but somehow still worse than the first two games. Like, they added all the same elements (wildlife and scripted events), but they all feel so uninspired and lifeless. For example, in the first game a helicopter would suddenly appear and cruise around alongside you; here you might see some jets fly by. The former is a lengthy animation that becomes a memorable part of the race; the latter is a brief inconsequential occurrence in the background, blink and you'll miss it. The music, which has been one of the biggest strengths of the series, is completely unremarkable here. I don't know what this genre is called, but it's like a mix of generic orchestral score and generic rock music.
I can't imagine why anybody would wanna play this in 2007, when the rally market was extremely saturated in the 2000s. The only thing that stands out to me about Sega Rally Revo is the dirt physics, but that's hardly a reason enough to play this.