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"Colin McRae Rally" is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters for the PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, and N-Gage. The franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. However, the car handling in the most recent games is best described as arcade.
The series is named for the late international rally driver Colin McRae, who provided technical advice during development.
The 2005 installation of the McRae franchise has over 300 stages spread over nine countries: Australia (loose gravel), Japan (tarmac), Finland (gravel), Greece (rough rocky gravel), UK (tarmac, mud, and gravel), Spain (smooth tarmac), USA (gravel/dusty tarmac), Sweden (snow and ice), and newcomer Germany (abrasive tarmac/mud). There are over 30 cars available, including Ford Focus WRC '01, Subaru Impreza WRC2004 (which is featured on the front cover), Citroën Xsara WRC '04, Peugeot 206 WRC2003, and Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VIII (8). There is also a revised graphics / damage engine that enables paint scratches on the car, and a new 'career' mode where the player starts out in the lower club leagues and works his/her way up to compete with Colin McRae in his 2004 Dakar Rally Nissan Pick-Up. In 'Championship' mode the player competes as Colin himself competing in 6 Rallies using any 4WD car.
The game's graphic engine allows for more realistic damage effects and a blurred vision effect if the player comes into contact with a hard object.
Feral Interactive is developing a Mac version of Colin McRae 2005. Wikipedia |
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