WRC4 WRC 4 The Game

[Bram Hengeveld]

On the iOpener website there is a very interesting article about an upcoming World Rally Championship simulator:

World Rally Championship's next game: Racing live against rally heroes

The next generation WRC computer game will allow players to 'compete' in live rallies", states ISC chairman Neil Duncanson in the April version of SportBusiness International magazine. ISC, the global promoter of the World Rally Championship (WRC), mentions WRC's ultimate goal as building up an online gaming world championship alongside the real thing.
ISC and the computer gaming industry believe the next step in gaming is this 'live' competition between gamers and real drivers, made possible through iOpener's patented technology.
ISC CEO Simon Long says: "Now we are a global promoter, we want this to be multi-platform, multi-publisher, multi-territory."
For Long and Duncanson the new game is part of WRC's broader efforts to appeal new fans beyond the hardcore enthusiastics. FIA's chairman Max Mosley has said the virtual champion will be honoured at the WRC's annual end-of-season awards ceremony in Monaco.

Source: iOpener Media

Last April we already brought you the first news about iOpener Media's beta testers recruitment for their Real Time Racing project.

The news about this technology where virtual racers can compete against the real drivers on the track in real time is now spreading amoung the simracing communities.

iOpener is still looking for the worlds best simracers to join their beta test program that's about to start soon. If you are interested in joining then you can sign up on the RTR website

 

[Lorenzo Gabbiani]

 

[Harry Platt]

The 3rd game to be developed by Milestone for the World Rally Championship has been announced for October release. More info here. The article is quite ambitious, using the word simulation quite often. There is potential, I guess, but these yearly releases never live up to the hype.

 

[Rob Every]

Anything by Black bean is likely to be arcade, they usually are and the two initial games have been.

Rememebr they also write the SBK games too, and the new motocross game they have written is poor, though fun if you got it cheap!!

 

[Senad Subasic]

Potential, hype, been there, done that with their previous games.

 

[Trebor901]

WRC3 the graphics look good and even if it plays like the last two it will be fine. Not everything has to be a sim because if it was gaming would be boring. Hopefully they have some changeable weather in this one

 

[Senad Subasic]

WRC3 the graphics look good and even if it plays like the last two it will be fine. Not everything has to be a sim because if it was gaming would be boring. Hopefully they have some changeable weather in this one

No, but if it's a driving/racing game, one would expect decent wheel support, and they weren't even able to do that.

 

[Kazumi]

We can argue about WRC and WRC2, but look,... with better visuals, sounds and a better driving model and FFB/Wheel support they got a good package. I hope it's a real step up and not just one of those yearly successors/updates.

 

[Trebor901]

No, but if it's a driving/racing game, one would expect decent wheel support, and they weren't even able to do that.

not really wrc is a game thats made for ps3 and xbox 360 then ported to pc which means descent wheel support wont be easy to do

 

[Karlip]

Let's see what they do to this game. Highly doubt it'll live up to the word simulation.

 

[Rob Every]

Seriously thinking of getting a decent gamepad actually, some of these games would probably be decent on a pad instead of a wheel

 

[wrc3]

http://www.metrogreece.gr/ArticleDetails/tabid/82/ArticleID/111381/Default.aspx
Is this a WRC 3 screenshot?

 

[Kazumi]

Looks like it... Google Translation

Another year, another game WRC, everything from Italian Milestone, which owns the rights to the World Rally Championship in recent years.

To WRC 3 uses a brand new engine for realistic graphics and features including more than 50 official teams along with classes Class 2 and Class 3, improved spectator effects and redesigned tracks (including Super Special) by new import feature for each one.

The WRC 3 will be released in October for Xbox 360, PS3, PC and PS Vita and hopefully come out better than their predecessors.

Seriously thinking of getting a decent gamepad actually, some of these games would probably be decent on a pad instead of a wheel

I'd wait for WRC3 if that's your concern. Pad doesn't change the sound, cockpit view and it also don't really change the physics.

 

[3smil]

Guys, let me ask you something. Is it really that hard to reproduce the physics of the best rally game (Richard Burns Rally) in any modern game engine?

 

[Kazumi]

Short answer: Yes.

 

[Karlip]

http://www.metrogreece.gr/ArticleDetails/tabid/82/ArticleID/111381/Default.aspx
Is this a WRC 3 screenshot?

No that was not.
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Ontopic: This little picture showed up on Rally Acropolis' Twitter!
I guess it's the loading screen for Rally Greece in WRC3 The game!
http://t.co/LpreZzGs

 

[Neil Farren]

A video. http://www.spaziogames.it/videorecensioni_videogiochi/console_multi_piattaforma/10778/wrc-3.aspx

 

[Harry Platt]

Did you notice that the stage in Wales GB, Great Orme 2 was on gravel. In real life that stage is on tarmac. What the hell, if they can't even get the stages right, then I have no hope for this game

 

[Manuel De Samaniego]

Did you notice that the stage in Wales GB, Great Orme 2 was on gravel. In real life that stage is on tarmac. What the hell, if they can't even get the stages right, then I have no hope for this game

And it was next to the ocean wasn't it? I think Ogier crashed there.

On the first game there were pyramids on rally Mexico this game could be so good, there are many great sims in the market, is it too much to ask to have a proper rally game like RBR? with updated graphics and physics. That Fiesta S2000 had a GPS!! in the video.

The only good thing that I can think of is that there are a lot of stages and rallyes. And the menus look great.

 

[Primoz Makselj]

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

That trailer looks very good!