WRC 9 SPLIT SCREEN SERIES

Courses are littered with bumpy roads and hairpin turns sure to have you instinctively swerving your body like a lunatic, the tracks seemingly committed to pulling you off the road with even a relatively minor mistake. It is, in my limited knowledge, a fairly routine rally simulation game, albeit an accessible one that I was able to (mostly) follow, no matter how terrible I am at reading pacenotes.įor sure, this is a technical racer, filled with treacherous routes across countries as disparate as Monte Carlo, Portugal, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, Wales, Turkey, Sweden, Kenya, and Japan.

WRC 9 SPLIT SCREEN SERIES

This is my first dive into the WRC franchise, so I couldn’t even begin to compare it to prior entries in the series or really other rally titles, but I can attest that WRC 9 is a whole lot of fun speaking as someone who finds the technical minutiae of simulation racers painfully dull. The DualSense has already been dubbed a game-changer for many disparate genres, but from my own play-testing its most intuitive and tactile utility just might be in racing games, as terrifically exemplified here. I’ll preface this review by confessing upfront that I’m not much of a rally racing game guy I flirted with the Colin McRae Rally series in my younger years and gave Dirt Rally a go in VR, but I tend to gravitate more towards arcade-skewing racers like the recently-released Dirt 5.īut the positive early word on WRC 9′s implementation of the PS5’s DualSense controller drew me in immediately, and I’m so glad it did.

Wrc 9 split screen