Pro Rally

Live the Rally Passion.

• EU release: 4th October 2002
• NA release: 11th November 2002
• JP release: N/A
• Developer: Ubi Soft Barcelona
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• NGC Magazine Score: 58%
• Mods Used: Widescreen Hack

As rally is effectively a time trial, it’s quite difficult to get them right in a video game. The Colin McCrae series was well respected, but everything else just seemed an imitation of that. Pro Rally is no exception, where every race feels like your car is on ice. While Pro Rally looks decent, there’s something disturbingly static about the courses, more so than other racing games I’ve played. I think it’s because things like trees in the distance look pretty good (for cardboard trees) so you expect the world to have a bit more life to it as a result.

There’s an in-depth training mode that requires you to perfectly race around obstacles, various kinds of competitions, but nothing that makes Pro Rally engaging or unique. It does have an arcade mode that lets you compete directly with 5 other racers, but the game doesn’t know what you do when you come into contact with an opponent, so you both just hang still momentarily before moving on. There’s nothing terrible about this game, but there also isn’t much excitement to it, either.

Fine

The solid aspects of Pro Rally are outweighed by the problems, and it’s all a bit dull and unexciting at the end of the day. There’s little incentive to get a better time, and even the wealth of engine/tyre/widget-tweaking options can’t rouse sufficient interest. Best wait for Colin McRae 3.0, we reckon.

Jes Bickham, NGC Magazine #74

Note: At the time of the NGC review, Colin McRae was confirmed for GameCube, it was cancelled later on.

Remake or remaster?

Other rally games are better.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to get Pro Rally.

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