Retro Rally (2024) - Every PC Rally Game
4Retro Rally by Quantum Dust, 2024.
Originally marketed as a Colin McRae Rally PlayStation-styled game, with a pretty horrible screen filter, this game has since evolved into a better-looking, fairly exciting-to-play (as it's so fast!) arcade rally game.
There's a wide range of cars to pick from and stages based on many locations in the real-life World Rally Championship... however they're not exactly realistic! Sweden is in a USA-styled desert, as is Safari! Monaco seems to be in a tropical palm-tree filled paradise, etc.
But ignore the stage names and things do start to pick up, as the latter stages become crazy rollercoasters around mountains and hills! It can be quite thrilling to try to navigate the stages without falling off the edge of the world! Especially as the cars can be quite twitchy. And if you think my driving in the TV-camera view is a bit rubbish, it's because there's no proper replay mode, I'm actually driving from that mode, trying to work out where the track goes!
The co-driver is a little limited though, to just easy, medium and hard corner-types. And some of the music tracks (not playing here) seem to chop off just as they get interesting. But overall it's not the worst rally game I've ever played.
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