WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship (PlayStation 4)

Take control of all official drivers and cars in 3 WRC categories with improved physics for even greater realism, redesigned environments, and all-new pace notes for total immersion.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 31.64gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Rally racing gameplay.
• Three difficulties-novice, intermediate, and expert.
• Six driving views including bumper, aerial, and in the car.
• Initial opening practice area with the controls shown and you tick them off as you do them. It all ends with a driving test to assess the right configuration for you.
• Respawn to the track button.
• Force one gear up and one gear down even if using an automatic gearbox.
• Copilot will audibly call out upcoming corners as well as show the corner, severity (indicated by a number), direction and it will be color-coded.
• Impressive authentic sounds.
• Colorblind support.
• Driving Assists-ABS, TCS, steering, transmission.
• Damage model-visual only, low, medium, high, and realistic.
• Broken down vehicles on roadside-on/off.
• Can turn off the steering wheel and driver’s arms when using the cockpit view.
• Speed units- Kmh and Mph.
• Co-driver timings-far ahead, ahead, default, late, and very late.
• Graphics-motion blur.
• Hud choices-speedometer, timer, progress bar, pace notes, damage, statistics, and section-time differences.
• Every driving view has 3 sliders you can adjust to personalize and they are-height/position/angle and field of view.
• Can rebind controls. And set how the button behaves like sensitivity and dead zone.
• Vibration sliders for each and every possible thing that could cause rumble to happen.
• Permacrash option where you can fail races.
• Two entry points-Junior WRC and WRC 3, you get to pick which one.
• Player creation–name, surname, nationality, which entry point, contract choice.
• Career hub-calendar, R&D, crew management, mail, objectives, statistics, standings, test area, and general information.
• Training allows you to practice tracks and car setups against the clock and earn medals.
• Progression-earn exp for driver level, the morale for team level, and cash.
• Skill tree-get points from leveling up and put in one of four tree branches-team/performance/crew and reliability.
• Weather-sun to cloud to rain to snow to more extreme weather like storms and thunder n lightning usually takes place at night!

Cons:

• Long initial load time.
• Doesn’t like loading without an Internet connection, had the whole process last longer.
• Very sensitive steering by default.
• Way too easy to roll the car.
• Harsh penalties for using the reset to track button.
• Slow starter with a lot of text being thrown at you as well as training after trading events.
• A lot to take in.
• No way to sim or skip all the team management stuff.
• The water doesn’t look very good.