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World Rally Championship 3

by Sony
Platform:   PlayStation2
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Game Information

  • Platform:   PlayStation2
  • PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
  • Media: Video Game

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Product Features

  • Official licensed game of the FIA WRC
  • 2003 teams, cars, liveries, countries, stages etc
  • 21 cars with total 48 performance variants
  • Evolution, Extreme and Concept cars
  • Five game modes
  • Realistic, detailed worlds
  • For 1-4 players

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  • ASIN: B0000C1CIM
  • Release Date: 21 Nov 2003
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,581 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

It will come as little surprise to hear that authenticity is the forte of WRC 3: The Official Game of the FIA World Rally Championship. Sony's rally-driving simulation pulls out all the stops and easily lives up to its name. Right off the starting line, WRC 3 looks the part. As the scenery flies by, players will feel the remarkable sensation of actually being in the country where the course is located. The road itself is realistically uneven and the cars react exactly as would real-life rally motors. The spectators at trackside and the team members at either end of stages look like real people. Nothing has been overlooked, and the effect is spectacular.

WRC 3 is massively enjoyable and perfectly playable. Cars will hug corners, drift out of them and then just manage to hold to the surface as they enter the next straight. In short, WRC's cars handle like real WRC cars. With the official FIA licence come real driver names, all the cars and courses from the World Rally Championship and countless small details (correct advertising, for instance). Fans of rally driving will be blown away by the game's realism, and fans of racing games will be impressed by its finely tuned gameplay. WRC 3 is the complete package. --Jonti Davies



GamesMaster Magazine

"An excellent off-roader. 87%."

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars WRC 3 vs Colin McRae 4, 4 Dec 2003
By Mr. D. Haylett "skylinedave" (UK) - See all my reviews
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It's winter again, and here come the next release of Codemaster's McRae and Sony's WRC. Last year I sold CM3 for WRC2, but this year, in a reversal of fortune I shall be selling WRC3 for CM4! I think the best way to compare two games is to go through each of the things that makes a rally game great:

Graphics: CM4: gorgeous, a definate improvement to CM3. Realistic backdrops, highly-detailed cars, impressive particles (like dust, mud, sparks) WRC3: not quite as good. not even as good as WRC2 for some reason! doesn't seem quite as realistic.

Detail: CM4: loads. trees, bushes, ruts in the track, fences, realistic buildings, basically there's stuff on-screen that you'll never even get to see. WRC3: compared to CM4 - bland. the odd tree here and there, the flat road, the detail-less mountains in the background which seem to be one polygon with a muddy texture. A step back from WRC2!

Sound: CM4: the engines sound gruff, realistic and different between cars. bangs, bumps and rattles are also very good. WRC3: the engines sound a bit too smooth and rev too freely, and sound too similar between cars.

Co-driver: CM4: no disrespect to the veteran Nicky Grist, but I think I've heard just a bit too much of his voice. Thankfully there is a new (Scottish) voice. The calls are good, with corner sharpness, distance, and other pointers like "turn right at tree". WRC3: a bland voice of a guy who doesn't really sound like he wants to be there. too quiet even with volume turned up. sometimes you miss something he says. doesn't tell you distance to next obstacle (as CM4 does).

Handling: CM4: an improvement to CM3. not as arcadey but still not too realistic. quite fun and easy to pick up. not frustrating at all. car feels like it's planted on the road. vibration through gamepad really takes you in. WRC3: an improvement to WRC2 which was far too realistic, WRC3 takes a step towards fun so that CM4 and WRC3 meet somewhere in the middle. having said that the car doesn't 'feel' like it's in the game at all. it's like you're navigating the course and theres a picture of a car stuck in the middle of the screen and there's no correlation between the two. too smooth, and sometimes you can't brake hard enough. frustrating at times.

Variety: CM4: 7 base cars, with ability to unlock 'dangerous' Group B cars, plus fun cars like a transit van. mini-games take the form of parts testing where you are supposed to wreck part of your car (like suspension or tyres) to get an upgrade. 8 countries (all very different) and 48 tracks. WRC3: 7 base cars, with ability to unlock extreme versions with double the horsepower, plus the odd hidden car like Mits. Pajero. 14 countries (although some look the same in ways) and 125 tracks.

Verdict: Buy Colin McRae 4 in preference to WRC3 if you like rally games. CM4 is more fun, looks better, feels more real, and gets you involved. WRC3 is plain, harder to control, a step BACK from WRC2 (!) and tends to rely on the licence to sell (to the extent that the title on the side of the game is: WRC3(TM): The Official Game of the FIA World Rally Championship). There are loads of video clips of drivers and cars and so on, but you're there to PLAY the game not watch it!

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best rally game ever!, 5 Dec 2003
By A. Taylor (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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I'm a rally fan. I'm a games fan. I've been both for over 20 years and only now, after 2 decades, someone has finally created a game that delivers the real experience for console.

In short, WRC3 is staggeringly good, in fact "good" doesn't even begin to describe how wonderful this is. The handling is up there with GT3 and makes a mockery of Colin McRae 4. The graphics are simply beautiful despite occasional glitches and the stages are massively varied and utterly exhausting to drive. Everything about it is leagues above everything else out there.

Ignore the review stating WRC2 is better. It isn't. It isn't even in the same ballpark. The only flaw in the handling occurs if you use an external view when the steering is too sensitive, but using this view is to miss out on the most absorbing and visceral rally physics model you'll have experienced. Use the bonnet or drivers view and the handling is phenomenally realistic, yet not so much as to be unplayable. In short, this is to rallying that GT3 is to circuit racing...yes, that good!

If you're a rally fan, or a games fan, or both, you have to own this game.

God only knows how they'll improve on this, but I suspect they will...roll on the PS3.

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Simply the best", 17 Nov 2003
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When i first played it on a demo i thought it was alright because i only got 2 levels to play but once i bought it i was amazed i couldn't put it down, i must of played it non-stop for around 15 hours!

If your looking for a Rally game but with a bit more spark..... you've found it, WRC III is "THE" rally game it's better than it's predecessors WRC I and II it's got a better range of cars (my personal favourite the Subaru Impreza prototype) and courses.
If you have a chance to get it- get it! The qraphics and gameplay are great, i took it round a friends and he thought it was really good.

This is a much better game than Colin McRae rally 04 i rate it 5/5!

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars the best even in 2009
this is easily the best of the wrc games.it has style and lost of all atmosphere.the games changed for 4 and 5 and they are knowhere as good as this 3rd one. Read more
Published 9 months ago by M. Nagle

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have game! Can't wait for WRC 4
This game is very good indeed. I Really can't wait for WRC 4 to come out in November but you must buy this! Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2004 by A Harrington

1.0 out of 5 stars Sell this and buy a Playstation NOW!
Having enjoyed Playstation for the last 2 years. I was lucky to having bought a PS2 with Athen 2004 and WRC 3. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2004 by A Harrington

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game
Great control over cars unlike mcray,you lose control at speed on the bends.Graphics tweeked from wrc 2,and you can hit high speed. Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2004 by Mr. P. Andrews

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!!!!
I just received this as a gift from my girlfriend for Christmas, and have to say I have found it difficult to stop playing it. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2003 by Rob Edson

5.0 out of 5 stars Start Your Engines!!!
Best Rally Game Ever Made Based On The Offical Rally Championship The 2Player Has Been Improved As In the 1st WRC Rally Game There Was Only 1 View Point But Now U Have About 5... Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars Supermarket Sweep
Shopping trolleys. They infuriate you, don't they? Cumbersome things with poor handling - causing you to knock into things; making you to perspire with embarrassment. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Good but not as good as WRC2 extreme
Sorry guys. the steering is 'floaty' the car seems to be missing it's 300bhp judging by the rather slow acceleration and the graphics are a bit on the glitchy side. Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Rally game - by an SSS
Having had the opportunity to play this game I can honestly say that it is the best rally game to ever grace a game console. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2003

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