There is also a revised graphics and damage engine that enables paint scratches on the car, and a new 'career' mode where the player starts out in the lower club leagues and works their way up to compete with Colin McRae in his 2004 Dakar Rally Nissan Pick-Up.
The 2005 incarnation of the McRae franchise was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Portable and has over 70 stages spread over nine countries. Games Aggregate review scores As of 22 February 2019.
With the release of Colin McRae: Dirt in June 2007, Codemasters changed the naming scheme in the series, dropping the "Rally" designation, giving way to the Dirt series of games.
The series is named after the World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae, who provided extensive technical advice during development. Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, PlayStation 2, N-Gage, Mobile, PlayStation Portable, iOSĬolin McRae Rally is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. For the 2013 video game, see Colin McRae Rally (2013 video game). For the first game in the series, see Colin McRae Rally (1998 video game).
Other drivers such as Brian Ickler, Corky McMillin, Kevin Proctor, Per Eklund, Scott Schwalbe, Carl Renezeder, and Aaron Hawley are also featured in game.This article is about the video game series. Various real-world drivers feature, including Colin McRae, Travis Pastrana, Johnny Greaves, Kenneth Hansen, and Mike Ryan. CORR tracks like Chula Vista are also featured in game for CORR trucks/buggies racing. New disciplines are available including rally, rallycross, rally raid, CORR and hill climb. Multiplayer allows the player to race up to 100 other players in rally races through solo competition, as there are no other cars, ghosts or players present on the track. In Rally events with multiple races, the player has the opportunity to repair damage between races, but is only allotted 60 minutes of damage repair at each point based on time estimates to fix each component of the car.Ĭhampionship mode offers up a series of races in which the player's combined time throughout each stage is cumulative. Completed events can be repeated at any time, although unless challenged at a higher difficulty level, the player will earn significantly less money than when they first raced it. The amount of money earned is based on the difficulty level picked by the player when selecting the event higher difficulty levels have more challenging AI opponents and more realistic damage effects. In total there are 46 different cars and 186 liveries. By winning races and earning money the player is able to purchase cars and liveries (skins) for the cars. Most events require a specific number of points within a specific tier to unlock, and thus as the player earns points, more of the pyramid becomes unlocked, moving up to the "Champion of Champions" event at the very top.
The player earns up to 10 points for their placing in all the races within the event. Each event consists of one or more race events of a single type requiring a specific type of car. The Career mode is set up in a stylized pyramid that has 11 "tiers", with the bottom tier having 11 different events. Career, Championship, and Rally World, which is a single race set up. The single player game plays out through 3 modes.