EA Sports WRC

EA Sports WRC would feature a total of 78 rally cars.[1] 10 Groups Rally cars are from the World Rally Championship, including three Rally1 vehicles such as the Puma of M-Sport, the i20 N of Hyundai and the GR Yaris of Toyota and seven other cars from the support categories — the World Rally Championship-2 and the Junior World Rally Championship, including Ford Fiesta Rally3 — as well as 68 classic rally cars.[2] The other rally cars include Citroën Xsara WRC, Mini John Cooper Works WRC, Ford Fiesta Rally4 and Colin McRae R4, which was previously featured in Dirt 3.[3] Car Builder, which is similar to My Team of the F1 series, would allow players to create and customise their own rally cars.[4] The game would include over 200 competition stages arcoss 18 WRC rallies.[5] Multiplayer mode would be available for up to 32 cross-platform player.[6] Virtual reality mode would also be featured in the game.[7]

The game was revealed on 5 September 2023.[8] It was initially built as a sequel to Dirt Rally 2.0.[9] Codemasters, the developer of the F1 series, would develop their first WRC video game after they regained licence in 2020.[10] The last game by Codemasters with WRC licence was Colin McRae Rally 3 released in 2002, featuring the 2002 season.[11] EA Sports would involve and publish the game after Codemasters was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2021.[12] The game is powered by Unreal Engine, replacing Ego, which Codemasters was long-term implemented in its previous rally title, the Colin McRae Rally and Dirt series.[13] The game would be available for Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 3 November 2023.[14] It would also feature three covers, with Ford Puma Rally1 for PC, Hyundai i20 N Rally1 for Xbox and Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 for PS5.[15]

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