As for the PC game specs, your guess is as good as mine since my copy didn't
list any.
"Ugly bloke, ugly bloke, now we salute him...".
Colin McRae isn't the most handsome of sportsmen but he's got his own
game series so what does he care? However, although I never played the prequel
to this, I still can't see what makes this in any particular way different
from V-Rally or many other recent driving games.
There's a rally mode, an arcade mode, plus single race and championship variants
in each, as well as the ability to play against others on the internet,
providing you can get it to work!
Get from A to B, trying to beat the other cars on the track although they
tend to shoot ahead without giving you a chance... and that's it.
The graphics are reasonable but offer nothing over what we've seen before
and don't give you that all-necessary feeling of speed,
while the sound doesn't help matters with a grating car engine and a tinny
voice trying to point you in the right direction.
It's all too easy for your car to swerve about all over the place and you
can't drive too far from the beaten track which limits the sense of freedom.
A replay mode is available, showing your car from preset angles around
the tracks, just like every other game with this feature. Yawn!
GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ORIGINALITY ENJOYMENT
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
"Ugly bloke, ugly bloke, now we salute him...".
The graphics are reasonable but offer nothing over what we've seen before
and don't give you that all-necessary feeling of speed,
while the sound doesn't help matters with a grating car engine and a tinny
voice trying to point you in the right direction.
