By Jim Rossignol on August 3rd, 2012 at 9:00 am.
A developer diary for forthcoming offroad racing game WRC 3 feature Italian devs Milestone explaining why they thing this is the best rally game ever made. A good part of the reason for that belief rests with their new engine, which allows them to play with fancy lighting and particle effects, as well as employing something called “satellite modelling”, which appears to be constructing their 3D tracks based on overhead satellite shots? Something like that.
Anyway, it appears faithful to current rallying realities, so go take a look.
The game is set for an October release.
03/08/2012 at 09:12 Sigvatr says:
Can someone explain what these guys mean by a new high-profile particle effects system? That’s some technobabble if I ever.
03/08/2012 at 09:42 max pain says:
It’s just random buzzwords, but I guess what they want to say is they are proud of their particles looks.
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03/08/2012 at 09:20 EPICTHEFAIL says:
Oh, so they`re doing the same thing as HAWX` terrain modelling, except a bit better? Also, Jim has a mini?
03/08/2012 at 09:25 CaspianRoach says:
This game looks worse than Dirt.
03/08/2012 at 09:35 c-Row says:
“Less emotional”.
03/08/2012 at 09:42 phylum sinter says:
i’m totally in the dark about the this series – i wish there were more than Codemasters and EA investing in these types of games, and welcome anybody else doing so. I’m going to have to look into WRC2 before i have any excitement about this beyond curiosity though.
Have any of you played the WRC series? any fans?
03/08/2012 at 10:00 dsi1 says:
“Reproduce the effects required for rally racing”
*proceeds to show off mud caking and visual damage effects*
So uh, what about the tire, suspension, and engine simulation?
03/08/2012 at 10:29 Jekhar says:
Just forget it. This will be an arcade racer, and even for that the handling is “meh”. Check the previous article about this game on RPS. There was a video showing some (3rd person) gameplay.
03/08/2012 at 10:54 Guvornator says:
Well, these are the guys who made Screamer, so if it’s an arcade racer it should be one hell of one. I’m interested to see how this turns out, though not exactly excited.
03/08/2012 at 11:32 Stochastic says:
Here’s a recent video preview done by TeamVVV (not spam despite the appearance of the URL): http://youtu.be/h29X9fw_azI
03/08/2012 at 11:47 Jason Moyer says:
That actually looks much better than I was expecting. By “looks” I mean the stage design and the handling model, not really too concerned about the graphics.
04/08/2012 at 01:00 dsi1 says:
Here’s an RBR run of the same area for comparison.
03/08/2012 at 12:27 Claidheamh says:
Best rally game ever made? They mustn’t have ever heard of Richard Burns Rally, which doesn’t bode well for the developers’ competence in developing rally games. It does seem like it could be some arcadey fun, though.
03/08/2012 at 15:06 BurnSeasons says:
Am I the only one who thought that looked like a car in skyrim in the screenshot?
03/08/2012 at 15:32 cHeal says:
looks crap.
03/08/2012 at 18:58 kuus says:
http://is.gd/PFQQs4
08/08/2012 at 17:17 Jason Moyer says:
Dunno if anyone’s seen this, but inside simracing did a quick preview. This really looks surprisingly good so far. Not Richard Burns Rally or Rally Championship 2000 quality (I doubt we’ll ever see anything like either of those again) but still pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th_OVkttH0g
It certainly looks far better than the last 2 DiRT games.