If you look at footage of this car on tarmac in real life, it is definitely not afraid of going sideways yet it appears happy to understeer. More like, ‘why did someone put a ton of bricks in the boot?’. That spoiler-laden rear end in Dirt Rally 2.0 feels like a liability. Because I remember this being a handful in Dirt 2.0.Īnd it still is – yes the two cars have nearly double the horsepower difference, but the Dirt 2 interpretation feels radically different in other ways. I have chosen two Spanish stages for the tarmac section and the Audi Quattro Group B rally car. The supposedly weakest surface in Dirt Rally 2.0 and one of the strongest in WRC 8 and onwards. However, overall Dirt Rally 2.0 feels less natural. On gravel Dirt Rally 2.0’s reduced intuitiveness is much less apparent in front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive cars, which in some rallies handle noticeably similar to WRC. Many drifts are unsavable – and that is not necessarily true in real life but is generally perceived as ‘realism’. Whatever the case, it creates a situation where (particularly in the case of rear-wheel drive cars) it is easy to spin and difficult to handle oversteer. It is difficult to narrow it down exactly. Or the grip coefficient is too low or some surfaces such as gravel are not grippy enough. In Dirt Rally 2.0, things can be slightly cumbersome, overly heavy and rear-weighted. WRC 10’s are lighter and more agile, which is what you would expect from a stripped-out, highly tuned piece of engineering. There is, as far as I can tell, a fundamental difference between the physics of the cars. However, oversteer is more easily corrected and you can use the trick of steering with the joystick forward to smooth out the steering. Even with input sensitivity down minus 10 you change direction rapidly and can snake all over the road in an oversteer frenzy. So what is different? Well, driving on gravel in WRC 10 can be more difficult because of the extra front-end grip. Then there is understeer if you brake too much and lock the wheels. Neither experience feels unintuitive or too much like you are gliding on top of the road.īoth games provide a granular surface feel and reduced traction, too, in the form of slower cornering speeds and traction issues when accelerating. Pushing hard in the 280 horsepower Fords, the handling difference between both games is at its smallest. Unfortunately it is not possible to match like-for-like so I went for a similar vibe.

Up first, how does WRC 10 compare with Dirt Rally 2.0 on gravel? To find out, I decided to use the brilliant Finland stages. If you benefit from it, be sure to like and subscribe. So grab some popcorn and get comfy for I shall be giving my honest, probably too in-depth and potentially completely wrong opinions about WRC 10 and Dirt Rally 2.0. And yet with copies of both games available to me, I thought I would look at some side-by-side footage to compare. What does an idiot motoring journalist think, then? Has driving many cars made my opinion more valid? I doubt it. Is there a definitive answer? Probably not. And when it comes to rally drivers, opinions are mixed. The simple fact is that 99 per cent of players have never been near a rally car – let alone driven one.

Inevitably you will see ‘passionate’ exchanges about which franchise is more realistic. Has time been kind and what does the newcomer offer? With the WRC 10 release date here, I thought I should revisit Dirt Rally 2.0 to see how these games stack up. Nor did I like the lack of force feedback (FFB).Īfter making 10 YouTube videos, I ended up shelving it – until now. In many ways it did raise the bar, but personally I never gelled with it. As a big fan of rally, I was excited to play a game that claimed greater realism than ever. It was February 2019 when I got my hands on Dirt Rally 2.0. Sponsored Buy A Tribe Called Cars merch In this WRC 10 vs Dirt Rally 2.0 video, I take a look at the pros and cons of both to help you decide which to buy.

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