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Sega Rally

PSU Review Score

8.5

Avg. user review score:

6.7

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Summary

Sega Rally Revo is one of the most beautiful games on the system, with amazing detail and some of the most vibrant colors that will make your HDTV sing. Although there is a lack of customizing cars and damage modeling, the Championship mode provides plenty to keep you busy for quite some time to come. This is a sure shot to add to any racers collection!

We like

• Amazing graphical detail with crisp, vibrant colors, and realistic reflections
• Lots of tracks, unlockables and over 30 cars provide great replay value and keeps things fresh
• Fun online mode with minimal lag

We dislike

• No damage modeling or customization of cars
• Online games are found few and far between

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It’s time to rev those engines and head off-road as Sega releases its latest title in the long running series of arcade racers, Sega Rally Revo. The first to hit next-gen consoles, this title lays down the standard of how a rally game should look and feel.

Putting you behind the wheel over 30 of the hottest rally cars in the world, the game features several gorgeous tracks set in five unique environments, ranging from tropical islands to arctic raceways. Each environment has three tracks to race, both forward and mirrored.

Each track has been designed from the ground up with the race in mind. You will find natural and man-made obstacles in place to add a little flavor to the races. Puddles, ice, mud, and gravel are just some of the conditions you must traverse through, each having their unique properties that tweak how your car will handle or accelerate. Unfortunately though, the game has invisible walls that take away from the sensation of actually being on the track.

Invisible walls aside; Sega Rally Revo has taken a step forward in realism this time around, with fully degradable tracks. Each lap you race is unique and different from the next. As the race progresses, each car leaves behind tire tracks that accumulate, creating a more hostile surface to race one. On tracks with water, these groves will create puddles, which make for slick corners. The puddles in this game are simply amazing, with some of the most realistic reflections depicted in a PS3 game thus far.

The track that you race on also plays a key factor in the handling of the vehicle you are racing. Each course generally has two or three terrains, ranging from sandy beaches to icy roadways. The cars react realistically to each surface, and learning how to drive based on the track is key in winning some of the harder racers further on in the game.

Your driving assistant plays a crucial role in the game by guiding you by calling out obstacles, and detailing how long or sharp an upcoming turn will be. The assistant is a valuable help for new players who are learning the tracks, but can get fairly tedious and down right annoying after you get the feel for things. A visually reference also is displayed on the screen to signal upcoming turns as well.

There are four game modes in the game: Championship, Quick Race, Time Attack, and Multiplayer.

Championship mode puts the player through a series of three Championship classes, Premiere, Modified, and Masters. Each has unique cars, races, and tracks to unlock that are specific that class. Difficulty scales as you progress through the classes, starting very easy and becoming quite difficult towards the end of the Championship. However, AI in the game is almost non-existent; while you may feel you are really on a track with other drivers, they do little to fight back as you race by, offering little opposition.

Quick race allows you to pick any car and track that you have unlocked in Championship mode and get racing. This is best for when you only have time for a race or two, because in Championship mode, you are forced to race three of four tracks in a row before you can save and quit.

Time Attack let’s you race against some of the hottest racers out there, allowing you to load ghost racers with the best times. This mode is best for practice, and to see the best lines throughout the tracks and find subtle ways to shave seconds off your laps.

Multiplayer mode offers offline head to head racing, or online matches. Online mode supports up to six players at a time, and all with virtually no lag. However, online matches are found few and far between, a sad thing to see in such an amazing game.

There are over thirty officially licensed cars to unlock in the game, ranging from rally classics such as the Subaru WRX or the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo to some foreign and exotic racers like Hummers, Audis and Puegeots. Each car has unique handling and acceleration, and three ... (continued on next page)