After selling 4.5 million copies with its two Rally titles, it’s fairly obvious that Codemasters has got this genre sussed. And two years on, the level of expectation for the third in the series is understandably high, especially given that it’s the first to appear on next gen consoles. Being lucky sods, we managed to get our sweaty paws on an Xbox preview copy, and it’s shaping up nicely.
While still an unfinished build, it’s clear that Codies has got something special on its hands. Everything has been stripped out and received a major overhaul: firstly the cars look far more realistic, thanks to the huge jump in the polygon count – up from 800 in the last version to around 14,000, while the tracks are vastly improved, both in terms of variety, detail, terrain, and trackside detail.
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