Each race has multiple stages, each with unique terrain features and dangers. In Championship Mode you have to plan ahead as you progress through the eight rally locations around the world. When you get into the game's outstanding Championship Mode where you can tweak the tuning of your car to match the terrain and driving conditions, you'll actually appreciate the slight differences in tire types, suspension stiffness and gear ratios should you change them.
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The sense of speed and feeling that you're barely in control of your ride are crucial parts of a rally game and this is the series that taught us that standard. The particle effects for smoke, water, rocks and other tidbits you'll be kicking up wouldn't be as impressive if McRae 04 didn't have that famous physics system that has your vehicle rocking, powersliding and ricocheting around tracks so believably. The fact that you can incapacitate your car and possibly not even be able to fix it back to 100% health when the race is over, will thrill you at first and piss you off later when you're cursing your own lack of skill and inability to race. The fact that you can go from a racing games where the automakers are to paranoid to let the developer create so much as a dent on their precious vehicles to a rally racer where you can smash the crap out of Fords, Subarus and Peugeot is just so satisfying that may not want to play another high-browed street racer again. You get real rally vehicles, including SUVs from Mitsubishi and Land Rover, that take on dirt and damage like wildebeests in your favorite PBS special. Even with Microsoft's own Rallisport Challenge 2 just around the corner, Xbox-owning rally racing fans who aren't obsessed with online play may have to give McRae 04 a serious look. The game may be offered at a reduced rate, but all of the marvelous rally racing physics, splendid graphics and authenticity you'll remember from past Colin McRae games is still here. Exclusive to Xbox in North America, Colin McRae 4 comes in as a 19.99 budget title that could very well be one of the best values on any system.
Rally racing might be one of the most competitive sub-genres in videogames, but even so, Codemasters' Colin McRae Rally 04 has got to be at or near the top of any serious list of contenders.
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