Colin McRae Rally
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|---|---|
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| Genres | Racing |
| Developers | Codemasters |
| Publishers | Codemasters |
| Platforms | PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, PlayStation 2, N-Gage, Mobile, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, OS X, Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| Platform of origin | PlayStation |
| First release |
Colin McRae Rally July 1998 |
| Latest release |
Dirt Rally 7 December 2015 |
Colin McRae Rally and more recently; Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Colin McRae Rally and Dirt 2 have since been developed and published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.
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. The series is named after the World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae, who provided technical advice during development.
Despite McRae's death in September 2007, Codemasters retained the use of his name on their rally games until the release of Dirt 3, where the moniker was dropped.
Colin McRae Rally, the first title in the series, was released for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows platforms in January 1998 in the United Kingdom and in September 1999 in the United States. The game featured real cars and drivers from the 1998 World Rally Championship season. Colin McRae's Subaru Impreza was featured on the game's cover.
In Novice mode there are only 3 stages per rally, each followed by a Service Area, making it easier to adjust the vehicle to the different conditions of each stage and repair the damage.
There are 3 difficulty levels, namely Novice, Intermediate and Expert. New features include Arcade mode, with direct head-to-head competition against AI drivers or another player, and a cleaner and more minimalistic menu system, which would be retained for the rest of the series until the release of DiRT 2 in 2009. The game was a bestseller in the UK upon release, and again later in the year. A version for the iOS was released in June 2013.IGN gave it a score of very high 9.4/10.
This was the first Colin McRae game released for the Xbox, as well as the PlayStation 2. A GameCube version was announced but it was cancelled. It uses an autosave feature. IGN ranked it as the 91st best PlayStation 2 game. The staff praised its improvement and technology.
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