After Outrun 2 and F-zero GX it seems like if there is one thing Sega can't mess up in, it's updating old racers. But this game is a joke, it doesn't even hold a candle to Xbox racers like Rallisport Challenge. It's basically Ridge Racer on dirt, yes sometimes the track deformations are nice but this game doesn't feel like it should have the word Rally in it at all.
It is what it is supposed to be. An arcade rally-racing game built on the past Sega Rally Championship titles. It isn't trying to be Rallisport Challenge or Colin McRae, but rather, a suitable followup to the great arcade-style racing games with which it shares its name.
I only played the demo of Sega Rally Revolution, but I it seems to be a very faithful sequel. The downside of that is that alot has gone on in the racing genre in general and the arcade subgenre in particular since a Sega Rally game last hit though. I have no problem with faithful sequels in general but Sega Rally didn't give me the thrill of old, so I will pass.
I only played the demo of Sega Rally Revolution, but I it seems to be a very faithful sequel. The downside of that is that alot has gone on in the racing genre in general and the arcade subgenre in particular since a Sega Rally game last hit though. I have no problem with faithful sequels in general but Sega Rally didn't give me the thrill of old, so I will pass.CarnageHeart
That's the problem, the racing genre has made advancements and Sega Rally Revo feels like a relic. There are so many racing "no no's" within the gameplay and structure...the 1-p is a repetitive menu set-up with repeating tracks, the AI is poor, the enviornments are barred by phantom walls, the vehicles aren't diverse in any way, the tracks are cliched and monotonous and the difficulty is mostly manufactured with handicaps.
The only disappointment I had with SEGA Rally Revo is that is lacked the insanely indepth Career mode from SEGA Rally 2006. But SEGA Rally Revo is completely faithfully to the original SEGA Rally Championship in everyway. But Revo has a lot more content compared to the 1994 original. SEGA Rally has always prided itself has a simple, fast enjoyable arcade racer set to a rally racing theme. Like Daytona USA, the series was about going really fast through out the tracks and ignoring the fact that there is a braking function in the game. Revo struck all the right cords that it needed to and stuck to it's guns. In a time where SEGA fans fear that SEGA itself was losing itself. Here they are staying true to series roots and getting railed for it. I perosnally find Revo to be a fine racing game that happens to be a lot of fun. Kudos to SEGA for not following popular racing trends and doing the series justice.
The only disappointment I had with SEGA Rally Revo is that is lacked the insanely indepth Career mode from SEGA Rally 2006. But SEGA Rally Revo is completely faithfully to the original SEGA Rally Championship in everyway. But Revo has a lot more content compared to the 1994 original. SEGA Rally has always prided itself has a simple, fast enjoyable arcade racer set to a rally racing theme. Like Daytona USA, the series was about going really fast through out the tracks and ignoring the fact that there is a braking function in the game. Revo struck all the right cords that it needed to and stuck to it's guns. In a time where SEGA fans fear that SEGA itself was losing itself. Here they are staying true to series roots and getting railed for it. I perosnally find Revo to be a fine racing game that happens to be a lot of fun. Kudos to SEGA for not following popular racing trends and doing the series justice.N3MO
It certainly seems as though critics always rail these simple arcade style racing games like Ridge Racer and Sega Rally because they aren't up to par with modern racers. I'm not really sure what bar they're talking about, but classic arcade gameplay is called such for a reason. Keep your street racing and simulation tachometers out of my games!
The only disappointment I had with SEGA Rally Revo is that is lacked the insanely indepth Career mode from SEGA Rally 2006. But SEGA Rally Revo is completely faithfully to the original SEGA Rally Championship in everyway. But Revo has a lot more content compared to the 1994 original. SEGA Rally has always prided itself has a simple, fast enjoyable arcade racer set to a rally racing theme. Like Daytona USA, the series was about going really fast through out the tracks and ignoring the fact that there is a braking function in the game. Revo struck all the right cords that it needed to and stuck to it's guns. In a time where SEGA fans fear that SEGA itself was losing itself. Here they are staying true to series roots and getting railed for it. I perosnally find Revo to be a fine racing game that happens to be a lot of fun. Kudos to SEGA for not following popular racing trends and doing the series justice.N3MO
Nice N3MO. I dunno if I can justify a purchase of this game at the moment, as there is just too much hitting right now, but if I find it sometime next year or if I find a deal on it before that, it's deffinatly getting picked up. I have both Sega Rallys on the Saturn and Dreamcast and I love them. Even though the Dreamcast version has more content and better graphics, the original is still my favorite. I don't care about the new crap. Just make racing the tracks as exhilerating as the the first and I'm a happy camper.That's all I wantout of my Sega Rally really.The second kinda got away from that. Hopefully this goes back to it, as you make it sound like it does. :)
The game is pretty bare bones and straight to the point. Which doesn't personally bother me. They do say it's the simple things in life that make us the happiest.
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