[Multiplatform] Sega Rally Revo GAME OVER YEEEEEEEAAAAH

SAYGAH RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
Sega Rally may not have contained as much big dumb fun as Daytona USA (because pretty much nothing can compete with shoving your mates into the final Sonic finger of approval carved corner and watching them spaz around in the air), but it had its fair share of fun dumb big! Sega hand picked a bunch of people from outta space to form Sega Racing Studios, just to make this game! Don't you want to celebrate their only purpose in life? DON'T YOU?! You should, because this is a quality special treat, up their with the melted delights of Outrun 2 and F-Zero GX. IT'S 100% COCOA.

EASY LEFT
REVO stands for.. revolution? Maybe.. split the 'r' away.. and it can be.. rally evolution? Replace the 'v' with 'g' and its a bill. If you buy the PAL version it doesn't even have the Revo part in the title. It's a mystery. This is pure uncut arcade goodness, impossible powerslides for all! If you want a tired OLD MAN simulator, go get DiRT! I'll be over here slamming into like six other cars on the track at the same time, not slowing down for anyone. Fences? Fuck fences! Bang! Sometimes you'll be able to take fences with you if you're a skilled enough driver, they'll stick to your bonnet before flinging off into the sunset. Sega Rally's set up so that virtually nothing will bog you down, except... the ground itself!

CAUTION!
Revo has the most amazing and NEXT-GEN GUR HUR BUR thing I've seen yet aside from Dead or Alive X-Treme 2's super computer ability to render each tit with individual physics. The tracks you leave in the mud aren't merely just exciting textures that eventually fade away like bullet hole marks in GoldenEye (I WAS SO CLOSE TO WRITING MY NAME ON THE WALL YOU MONSTERS), they actually deform the ground! It'll all dig in, leaving big sloppy marks! And they stay there! It's quite a sight watching the fresh snow or whatever get torn the hell up, or coming round on the second lap and having to deal with a disaster area instead of what was once probably dirt. This combined with the handling makes each race an adventure, can you find Carmen Sandiego in the tropical jungle?



OVER JUMP!
The graphics are very.. arcade-ish? It really does remind me of a mid-90's racer, there's no backing away from bright colours here. It's very impressive at times, there's one point where you fling yourself over a jump in one of the alpine stages and get slapped in the face with all these little cottages and stuff resting away below in an impossible field.. of DREAMS. Ah yes, Sega Rally Revo is certainly my favorite baseball game. They've even got the classic 'pointless awesome shit' like helicopters that fly dangerously close to the ground. Once these jet planes screamed past and filled the sky with coloured smoke, it was pretty nice. I felt important. Don't worry society, I will win this race for you today. Oh, and the best part is the frame rate never has a heart attack.

LONG MEDIUM RIGHT
There's a fair bit of junk to do in the game, since this didn't start off as an actual arcade title there's no fear of a Saturn style port. "Did you like Manx TT SuperBike?" "Well kinda.. I guess" "Here is it on SATURN" "That's nice" "ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS TWO TRACKS GAME LASTS FIVE MINUTES" ".. You're hurting me!" The championships are amazingly split up into difficulties, and there's some kind of custom car championship where everyone drives broken shitboxes around the joint. Oh man the CPU gets brutal.

CHECKPOINT!
The weakest part of the game is easily the music, it's awful. Gone is the charm of the jazzy synth spew with someone saying a muffled line every now and then. Here comes the generic-o rock! I quickly reached for my Sega Rally Saturn disc and threw that into the 360 but it had a cry and couldn't detect the music tracks. Thank you internet! Sound's alright though, engines sound like engines, running into stuff sounds like bad driving, the announcer is classic cheese. Mmmmmm, jarlsberg. Also I have no idea if the hand crank powered PSP version is actually good or not. MAAAAYBE.



FINISH!
"But Infernal! I don't like racing games!" OOOOAAAAAUUUUUGH!
"But Infernal! I only own a Lynx, what should I do?" KLAAAAX
"But Infernal!" BLUE BLUE SKIIIIIIIIIIES


Action! Mayhem!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Has anyone played this?

I'm interested if it feels anything like RalliSport Challenge, which was inarguably the pinnacle of rally racers.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It's not like Rallisport at all, unfortunately. Hell, I'd go so far as to say DiRT was closer to the feel of RS than this is. This is pure Sega Rally, through and through.

This game is fucking GORGEOUS though, yikes.

I needs to purchase it. Unfortunately it's not price dropped up here like it has in the ol' US of A yet, so.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

This is just called "Sega Rally" in Europe where confusion still triumphs over truth and democracy every single day.

Anyway, this was certainly my most played game in 2007, I only bought it cause it was something like $30, but damn if I'd known how much fun it was I would've paid full price. Well, no I wouldn't since that deal was there, but it would've been worth it at least!

It looks incredible, it plays like a dream, and it's just really Sega-Rally-ish. And that's a good thing because the original Sega Rally stands the test of time as one of the most fun games ever made.

My favorite thing about it aside from the awesome graphics would have to be the incredible rumble. I don't know if it's even better on the PS3 with the dual rumble thing (I heard that it is, but I find it hard to imagine), but "even" the 360's rumble manages to convey with a certain level of confidence the difference between a muddy road and a muddy road with a previous car's tracks. You seriously feel the track under your tires.

I recommend playing until you unlock the faster--and really goofy--cars (you can already drive them in the quick race mode), cause those are really awesome. The engine is far from realistic, and with some practice you can have some of the fasters cars literally flying over half the track.

The only complaint I could level at it is that I feel like the game could've used a few more tracks, but it's generally just really awesome and a total surprise to me.

EDIT: Oh I forgot to mention one of the Savannah tracks has animals. Like, you know... Zebras and shit. Sweet!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by The Dutchman

I needs to purchase it. Unfortunately it's not price dropped up here like it has in the ol' US of A yet, so.

Canada's special! With your fancy full retail prices and all. It's even dropped to like $30 US here. Poor poor Sega Rally.

Originally Posted by surasshu

My favorite thing about it aside from the awesome graphics would have to be the incredible rumble. I don't know if it's even better on the PS3 with the dual rumble thing (I heard that it is, but I find it hard to imagine), but "even" the 360's rumble manages to convey with a certain level of confidence the difference between a muddy road and a muddy road with a previous car's tracks. You seriously feel the track under your tires.

Yeah seriously! This game has the best use of rumble I've experienced in ages. Hurling yourself round onto a tarmac road after battling with the mud is like a weird little intermission. Phew, safe, OOOH NO HERE COMES MORE MUD!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

Canada's special! With your fancy full retail prices and all. It's even dropped to like $30 US here. Poor poor Sega Rally.

Not a word of a lie, 69.95 at Wal*mart. Fuck. That. So. Bad. I'd buy it for 50 but fucking COME ON. It's one of the few 360 titles priced that high. Most others are 59.XX. The only other one that's still that high around here that I can think of off the top of my head is PGR4, another racer that bombed like fuck that I'd like to purchase, but NO. GOTTA CHARGE DAT RETARDO PRICE.

Also the rumble is amazing. I couldn't agree more.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I notice Infernal hasn't thanked me for telling him how great it is and locating the bargin at JB Hifi for him. Whatta prick.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Megalith

Has anyone played this?

Yes, I've played it a decent amount since I picked up back at its European release (September/October time, can't remember). No idea if it compares to Ralisport though. The thing is, it's not a rally game at all really. It's an arcade racer with rally cars and deformable tracks.

It looks great and is a good fun. Great little racer that I will be returing to at some point.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by RABicle

I notice Infernal hasn't thanked me for telling him how great it is and locating the bargin at JB Hifi for him. Whatta prick.

I did that in the purchases thread!

Jam it back in, in the dark.