Art Of Rally Review (Steam)

Race in the golden era of rally. Drive iconic cars from the 60s to Group B on challenging stages through stylized environments inspired by real worldwide locations. Will you master the art of rally?

Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 2.57GB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, v-sync, frame rate cap, quality preset (lowest/low/medium/high/highest)
• Car settings-anti lock braking, transmission, and stability assist.
• Over 50 cars, As said they don’t have official names but you know what they are.
• Not official cars but they look just like them.
• Customize cars with a handful of liveries.
• Handy description of the settings when highlighting them.
• Truly beautiful locations and tracks.
• The soundtrack is excellent with an 80s vibe to it.
• Rally driving gameplay.
• Free roam section to practice.
• View-you can zoom in and out but it’s always played on an almost isometric view.
• Freelook on the right stick.
• Hud-mph/kmh, instrument panel, speedometer, stage completion, and Collectible completion. All these settings can be turned on or off.
• Field of view slider.
• Five game modes-career, time attack, custom rally, online events, and free roam.
• Career mode is following rally history from 1967-1996 with each season being a year.
• Five difficulties-easy, novice, normal, skilled, and master.
• Five damage levels-none, light, default, heavy and severe.
• Online events–daily and weekly events.
• Online leaderboards.
• Simple controls-steering, brake, reverse, and handbrake.
• Clear easy to read screen elements and timers
• Full replay system.
• Arcade atmosphere.
• Unlock new cars, car classes, and liveries by playing through a career.
• Six weather types-morning, afternoon, sunset, rain, night, and fog.
• Five locations-Germany, Norway, Japan, Sardinia, and Finland.
• Spectators will be around the track and can be on the track and move as you come close.
• Car class-ten of them and they are- group 2, group 3, group 4, group b, group s, group a, vans, triwheelers, trucks, and logging.
• All the classic rally cars and liveries but without the official name and sponsors.
• Quick loading times.

Cons:

• Music doesn’t always fit and kind of takes you out of it.
• Small text in a lot of places.
• Very plain menus.
• The slight learning curve with the controls.
• Slow reset to track button.
• Heads up that there is no in-car or up-close camera views/angles.
• Heads up no shout outs for corners and hazards.
• In a time attack, you can only use unlocked cars and vans.
• Don’t like how the game deals with collisions with objects/fencing as it literally spins you out all the time.
• Even on severe its hard to get a failure.
• Slight performance hits when playing in fog.