Art Of Rally Review (Steam)

art of rally review

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.

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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.

art of rally review

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!