For example, the first-person driving mode which was featured in the original title is completely absent from the "new" iOS version. That's a fine point, except for the fact that this iteration of the game falls short of even the original title from 15 years ago. The knee-jerk argument for this outdated visual style is that the game is based on the original Colin McRae Rally from 1998. It ultimately just makes the entire experience feel fake and cheap. This includes every tree, bush and tuft of grass on the track. Just about everything in the game aside from the ground and the vehicles themselves are rendered entirely in two dimensions. Compared to titles like Real Racing 3 or even some of the recent Need for Speed titles on iOS, Rally looks downright ugly. A cursory glance at the title's App Store reviews reveals that I'm not the only one with this issue, though others don't appear to have been as lucky as I was in eventually moving past it.Īs this bug will most likely be addressed in short order, let's move on to the parts of the game that won't be fixed so easily. After about a half dozen attempts, and shutting off every single other app on my device, along with applying "airplane mode," I was finally able to progress past this section. You can play the championship mode to unlock additional locales and racing machines, but - and I can't emphasize this issue enough - there is a devastating bug that crashes the game as you are in the process of unlocking some of the very first vehicles. Unfortunately, the progression is slow and, if you're hoping to simply hop in and play, you'll be left with just one destination and one vehicle to choose from. What we are left with is a stripped-down rally racer that not only fails to impress in terms of modern gaming, but also fall short of evoking the pleasant nostalgia of the original Colin McRae Rally.Īs the title would suggest, Rally is a rally racing title, sticking you in the cockpit of high-powered off-road racing vehicles and asking you to best preset times on tracks ranging from Australia to Greece. Unfortunately, that is simply not the case. When it comes to racing games, Codemasters is one of the most respected developers around, so when one of the company's earliest racing properties - the iconic Colin McRae Rally, circa 1998 - hit the App Store, it could have meant great things for iPad gamers.
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