We’ve been playing Colin McRae 04 recently, and while it's a superb game, it's hard to see where the series has left to go. It’s a bold approach, but one that could breathe life into an increasingly stagnant genre. That's the route we’re going down, and we believe it’s the right one for this kind of game."
#RICHARD BURNS RALLY GAME DRIVERS#
Slew into a tree at 150mph, and you’re looking at an airbag followed by an airlift, with your rally coming to an undignified end.Īccording to creative director Patrick O’Luanaigh (who worked on McRae 1 and 2): "It makes it a lot more exciting because you know if you make one mistake then you’re out, and that’s what real rally drivers feel. But that’s as far as the generosity extends. Roll With ItĪs in reality, should you roll your car during a rally, the crowd will be able to roll it back on to the road enabling you to continue. To have any chance of competing, players will have to acquire the essential skills at the Forest Rally School, based on a real-life location in Wales, where Bums learned his trade. Whereas McRae is essentially a pick-up-and-play arcade experience - along with pretty much every other rally game - Bums is attempting to provide a proper hardcore simulation of the sport. So how can it compete? Well, rather than take on McRae on his own terms, the developers of Richard Bums Rally have opted for a radically different approach. That said, McRae has already dismissed Burns’ forthcoming game, bracketing it in with the numerous others that have failed to dislodge his. It turns out that it’s all for show and there is a great deal of mutual respect. Or at least that’s what they want you to think. Simulation Streetįurther spice is added to the new-found gaming rivalry by the fact that McRae and Bums actively despise each other, hissing like jackals whenever they are in the same
At the time of going to press, Burns is also leading this year’s championship.
#RICHARD BURNS RALLY GAME DRIVER#
As Britain's top rally driver for the past three seasons and 2001 World Rally Champion, Richard Burns is the man of the moment. Fortunately, we were able to wade through the technical jargon and bring you the important facts (not just that the bagels were a bit dry).Ĭolin McRae may rule the world of PC rallying, but one man regularly gets the better of him in the real world, and he has been drafted in to bolster the latest pretender to the rally game throne. The grand unveiling came in a sparse room above a cafe near Earls Court, and consisted of a lot of men talking a lot of noise. Being the first journalist ever to see Richard Bums Rally may not quite be up there with breaking the Watergate scandal, but it’s the kind of sacrifice we are prepared to make for you, the PC reader.