A diverse library of sound effects are pumped through the controller as your car rattles around the courses, but the DualSense really comes into its own where the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers are concerned.
Given the propensity for screwing up, though, it’s a shame there isn’t an instant restart option for races as opposed to the common sense approach of restarting tracks with a tap or two of the touchpad, you have to confirm through two menus before being allowed to restart, which feels relatively tedious for a title on new-gen hardware.īut again, we return to the star of WRC 9 – the DualSense controller, which is a transformative enough piece of kit to make this highly competent racer so much more memorable than it otherwise would be. This is not the sort of hypnotic racer like Dirt 5 where you can quickly find a zen-like sense of flow and simply zone out you need to concentrate at almost all times, yet the vehicular handling nevertheless feels fair in its realism. 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 8 TOO UNFORGIVING 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.
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