While one awaits the fifth WRC on Playstation 2 in year end, Sony proposes us for the launch of his PSP the portable version of his game of races. This opus does it succeed in do just as well as its elder illustrious one on consoles parlor?
In contrast to the versions Playstation 2, this is not Evolution Studios that took charge of the development of this version PSP, or BigBig Studio, affiliate of the English studio, well too occupied by the development of the very promising one Follows Forces. This is therefore the British developer Traveller's Bruise that inherited of this license o how much juicy. If the developers approach here a new kind (so far, Traveller's Bruise especially illustrated itself in the kind adventure plateforme), the conversion draws from it nevertheless with the honors. Of course, WRC PSP will not be able to compete with the opus PS2, this is a certainty, but it will know to bring to the nomadic players of pleasant moments. Explanations!
Lively the official license!
Following the example of the appeared episodes on the black monolith of Sony, this version PSP takes advantage of the official license World Rally Championship. Thus, the amateurs of this mechanical sport too unfairly avoided of the media, will be able to rediscover their pilots and favorite stables. Envy to launch you in a long-term championship in the skin of Sébastien Loeb to bring to Citroën a world-wide new crown or rather envies to put to poorly the performances of the French builder? All possible east! The six stables and their official pilots are all on the part, just as the sixteen destinations of the World Championship. Thus, the world-wide competition will invite you to cross humid regions as the England or the New Zélande, dry as Turkey or Mexico, covered in snow as Sweden or Climbs Carlo, blacktopped as France or Spain or again quick as Finland or australia. To the final one, change of surroundings is guaranteed so much more than each country proposes a render graphic unique.
Return to the puts departure
Playability on the other hand will not do unanimity, this is a certainty. While the series stretches each year more and more towards the realism, this first apparition on portable carries out a sacred leap behind while proposing a typed playability arcade, as the first WRC. Nevertheless, the expectations on portable not being the even that on consoles parlor, this approach arcade fully assumed justifies itself amply. Thus, it is necessary only some minutes to take in hand the game and mastery the simplistic behavior of the racing cars. Nevertheless, when one is got used to the comfort of the dual shock 2 and to its vibrations and especially to the episodes PS2, the passage on PSP does not be done without tears so the sensations differ. If one is done very quickly to the absence of vibrations, one regrets nevertheless the presence of absent defects of the series on PS2. Thus, and as strange as that can appear, no réglage is proposed in the game! One chooses his mounting and his pilot and this is all! The avid bidouilleurs of mechanics will have to gnaw their brake. All the same, if the title proposes many types of different revêtements, the sensations are far from being very different of a track to another. What one be on earth, blacktops, snows or under rain, the behavior of the cars is practically identical. Add thereto sometimes doubtful collisions with the setting and one obtains a gameplay does essentially glissades that will not be able to please all. Nevertheless, the will of the developers was to propose a game to the taken one in immediate hand, without taken of head and in this direction, the wager is won!
A classical container but always effective!
If the arcade does not frighten you, this first WRC on portable can well to hold you in breath many hours. The regulars of the series will sail besides in land known with classical methods but sufficiently numerous to justify the purchase. First of all, for the players that would not have in front of them that some minutes, the method Chases Quick is ideal: in some seconds, the console chooses for you car, pilots and special. The game pleasure is then immediate! Next, it is possible to do ampler knowledge with the special ones offered by the game in the Against-it-Shows or the Simple Rally. Nevertheless, the essential remainder well evidently the method Championship where the objective remains the conquest of the world-wide title. Four difficulty methods (of which a to unblock) are available and allow each to take part in the tournament that suits for him. Originality (and maybe so light defect) Championship: it is necessary imperatively to finish in a number of well precise places to continue the competition. Thus, when you will play level difficulty « Hard », you necessarily will have to finish in the three first ones to pass to the special following one. Thus, the championship somewhat distorted since you will retrieve necessarily a number of non negligible points to each of your movements
on the other hand, the content of the championship deserves to be greeted since the developers included a total of 64 special ones that ask in average three minutes to be curled! At last, for the players of which the entourage also would have cracked for him for the PSP and WRC, a method multijoueur allows 8 players to confront itself in on the part furious in LAN or to 4 to role turn.
The conversion is succeeded
At last, for his first apparition on PSP, WRC preserves his principal quality: his graphic realization and technical licked. Difficult to judge a criterion as the graphismes of one of the first available games on a new support and nevertheless, it is necessary to recognize the very tubby voucher accomplished by the teams of Traveller's Bruise. As a whole, the graphismes of the game are very succeeded: the different car models perfectly are modeled, the graphic environment is varied and detailed (well that one can regret certain landscapes a little empty) and the special effects surprising. Thus, as the versions PS2, the racing cars get dirty and deteriorate as one progresses in a special one, the projection effects of water, of dust or again the reflections on the ground or the luminous effects (sun, headlights) are very convincing.
The sonorous mood do not change surroundings the regulars of the kind with a band his in the vein of the preceding opus, sounds motors succeed and a copilot more perfect, clearer and more perfectly more audible. One would have on the other hand appreciated more numerous sound effects and hitting.
At last, and in a general way, the organization never is taken to defect. Alone persist sometimes some light slowdowns or jerk along but nothing disastrous to the end of the account, just as the times present loads to race every beginning.
