Hum a simple tune and stick your head next to a lawnmower, and you'll have the audio for this game in a nutshell. For the complete experience, have a friend periodically scream "hard right" or "easy left" in his best British accent. All the cars make the same horrible engine noises, and the music is lackluster. Even the best element of the audio - your navigator's speech - is lacking. You'll easily be able to see how they separated the sound bites when you hear the unnatural pause as he strings a few turns together.
While the game may not stand out in quality, it certainly does the job with quantity. In fact, there are over 50 tracks in the game and all eleven official rally cars. That's a lot of racing, even for the most hard-core rally fan. Once you've completed a few circuits, you're able to unlock the four special bonus cars. Unfortunately, you may not be compelled to race even half the tracks or get behind the wheel of more than a few different cars in the light of this game's numerous flaws.
Infogrames should have spent less time bogging the game down with every rally track known to mankind and instead channeled that effort into making a better game. Even the most hard-core rally fan should be hesitant around this title, and fans of basic racing games should avoid this one like the plague.
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