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.