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You no longer need the navigator, you know every rut and pothole and you can drive much faster than the computer opponent. Add to that the difficulty of tracks that cannot be tackled without listening to the navigator, and you get endless evenings in front of the screen, trying to get that one track right.Īfter several months of playing, you reach a place where you have the stages almost completely memorized. Just about anything you can think of modifying could be modified. It was possible to set everything that can be set in a real rally car: the stiffness and length of the springs, the various settings for the shock absorbers, the effect of the brakes. A game that kept you interested for months at a time because it was truly demanding. Lush vegetation, realistic elevation and true simulation of every pothole – that was Richard Burns Rally. If you look up the names of the special stages and put them in Google, you’ll find out for yourselves.

And all the tracks were very true to reality. Snowy scenarios were represented by Finland and for tarmac stages, you could head to France. In the original version, you could drive on the gravel roads of Britain, Australia, Japan and the USA. Richard Burns Rally was developed as a hardcore simulation for the most discerning players.

The game was never intended to offer this, but the will and skills of fandom can move mountains, and this is a prime example. There are online tournaments still running for the players who want to compare their skills with other virtual drivers. It’s been 14 years since the Richard Burns Rally came out, in 2004, and people still play it. With the release of Richard Burns Rally, the studio triggered a huge avalanche of mods, tracks, new physics models, sounds and anything else you can imagine. It was even possible to tear off a wheel! Their Rally Championship Xtreme was one of the first rally simulations with a realistic model of damage. Before it released the most played and probably the best rally simulation ever, the Warthog studio already had plenty of experience with rally games.