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Last Updated: 8/02/04 |
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Colin McRae Rally 4

How much better can rally racing
get?
Now this is what im talking bout,
the best rally game ever! Finally there's a good one for the Xbox, with
over 30 cars and 48 tracks, what can go wrong about this game?
The Features
- All new expert Championship mode
- 48 total tracks across 8 nations
- Enhanced vehicle customization
- Create custom rallies with unique
stages
- Upload best racing times to
worldwide leaderboards over
Xbox Live
- Split screen play with up to four
players
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The different types of surfaces you're racing
over in McRae 04 seem to make a huge difference in the way your
vehicle handles throughout the race. Rain is that much slicker and
will give you quite a headache when you're on the tarmac, but when
you transition onto a dirt road, you'll instantly feel the mud
slowing you down and holding your tires. Timing the use of your
brakes becomes an invaluable skill since you'll do just as much
sliding in loose mud as you will on rain-soaked pavement when you
lock them up. You'll still have to be ready and able to
counter-steer in dry conditions however and maximize your power in
and out of turns. It's more or less the same physics and
rubber-meeting-the-road system we've always had, but it all just
seems more noticeable now.

The audio elements of have been upgraded so that
the cockpit view is now more immersive than ever. You get engine
sounds coming from the appropriate directions with the
surround sound kicking. But the biggest thrill is hearing
all sorts of rattling and crap ricocheting off of the vehicle's
underside and fenders from the cockpit view. Buds that top the
assortment of wild brush lining the sides of the courses will
constantly slap the wafer thin outer body of the rally cars as you
get sideways at 85 mph trying to correct an errant turn. It sounds
like the tappity tapping of hard falling rain and give you the
impression that you're at the controls of a four-wheel drive tin
can.
Xbox Zone Gives it.....
9.6/10 (Excellent)
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Review from Ign.com
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