When it all clicks though and you find your rhythm, racing in WRC 9 becomes an enjoyable balance of speed and precision. It wasn’t uncommon to feel like I was going slowly to look at the speedo and see I’m doing more than 100mph. At first there feels like a real disconnect between how fast you feel like you’re going and how fast you’re actually going. This system takes a little time getting used too. Take a corner that starts on gravel but transitions to tarmac and you’ll feel where the tyres start to bite on the road rather than the rubble. It’s an impressive system that KT Racing have put together here that really allows you to feel the road and the friction you’re facing. Depending on your car set up (all altered via an easy to use slider system), the assists, the weather and surface, you can have a twitchy ride or a fight around each corner. Each corner is a test of your thumbs, your observation, your reactions and how brave you want to be. No matter what assists you pick, tackling a course in WRC 9 is a challenge. The assists here are related to the sport specific nuances, like ABS, traction and starting line control. There’s no steering assists here like have become commonplace in sim racers. Simulation rally games can be a little impenetrable at first but this game has you complete a track before you really get into the game which will then offer up suggestions on the difficulty and assists you should start with. Let’s start with the handling in WRC 9 as this is the part of a rally game that really makes it or breaks it. Things have really progressed since then. The last time I strapped myself into a virtual rally car it was with WRC 7 back in 2017. It has been a few years since I played a rally game with Paul covering V-Rally 4 and Greg taking WRC 8 for a spin last year. This is a review by more of a rally enthusiast and lapsed fan rather than someone who picks up a title in this genre every year. If you came to this review expecting a detailed breakdown of how WRC 9 differs from last year’s entries or the other rally games out there, I’m sorry to disappoint.
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