PS: Rally stages are too short in Dirt and in WRC series. Average rally has 350 km divided in 20 stages average (Sardegna was shorter:16 stages, 304 km). Some rallys have a lot longer stages. For example this year's rally Guanajuato (Mexico) had the longest stage - Guanajuatito 54.9 km (total rally length almost 400 km, 23 stages). WRC game series needs longer stages!
I also think that dirt series has ruined the original Colin McRae Rally series (from which it was developed) (especially dirt 2 and dirt 3).
"The wide selection of available cars all handle far too loosely, losing control frequently on bends and defying the precision these machines are noted for in real life." - wrong, it's not the machine its the driver that has the precision. Rally cars spin, flip, crash more often than you think. Even the smallest mistake is punished in rally. Colin McRae himself had earned the nickname McCrash. One bad choice in car setup and the car becomes almost uncontrolable. Dirt series is actually far more unrealistic than WRC series. If you want phisycal realism in a rally game you need to play Richard Burns Rally (yes it's old and it has bad graphics, compared to dirt and wrc series, but it is the most realistic rally simulation made so far), but it doesn't exist for PlayStation 3 (it was released for pc, ps2 and xbox.
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Re: Review: WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship (PlayStation 3)
PS: Rally stages are too short in Dirt and in WRC series. Average rally has 350 km divided in 20 stages average (Sardegna was shorter:16 stages, 304 km). Some rallys have a lot longer stages. For example this year's rally Guanajuato (Mexico) had the longest stage - Guanajuatito 54.9 km (total rally length almost 400 km, 23 stages). WRC game series needs longer stages!
I also think that dirt series has ruined the original Colin McRae Rally series (from which it was developed) (especially dirt 2 and dirt 3).
Re: Review: WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship (PlayStation 3)
"The wide selection of available cars all handle far too loosely, losing control frequently on bends and defying the precision these machines are noted for in real life." - wrong, it's not the machine its the driver that has the precision. Rally cars spin, flip, crash more often than you think. Even the smallest mistake is punished in rally. Colin McRae himself had earned the nickname McCrash. One bad choice in car setup and the car becomes almost uncontrolable. Dirt series is actually far more unrealistic than WRC series. If you want phisycal realism in a rally game you need to play Richard Burns Rally (yes it's old and it has bad graphics, compared to dirt and wrc series, but it is the most realistic rally simulation made so far), but it doesn't exist for PlayStation 3 (it was released for pc, ps2 and xbox.