As great as this game was at the time, Rallisport Challenge 2 blew this game out of the park. RSC2 is still my favorite rally game of all time. The landscapes are pretty, and the handling is one of the best I have ever seen in any racing game ever. Thanks for both this review and NFSMW and keep up the great work!
I never got a chance to play the first Rallisport, but man, am I glad to have played part 2. Loved the option to upload my own MP3s on the xbox console and use that to race with. so many great memories of doing that. i wish they would bring back that option.
RSC2 is absolutely my favorite racing game on the OG xbox, and I was actually going to suggest in the comments that he review this series a couple of days ago.
@@DOSBrony The Xbox is a gold mine of fantastic racing games (and some not-so-good racing games that I still adore). RalliSport Challenge and RSC2, Forza Motorsport, Project Gotham Racing and PGR2 (which is my personal favourite), various Colin McRae Rally titles, OutRun 2006, Sega GT 2002, Need For Speed Underground 2, Burnout 2/3/Revenge, Midtown Madness 3, The TOCA/V8 Supercars games, Midnight Club 3, Juiced, the list goes on. I also have a soft spot for games that weren't as well received but that I loved like Dakar 2 and Quantum Redshift. I very patiently await the day that Microsoft brings PGR and PGR2 (or really any of the above) to Xbox Backwards Compatibility.
I had a playstation 2 but love rally game's and always heard the Xbox had way better rally game's, I might pick up a Xbox just to find out, or though I did actually like Richard Burn's on PlayStation 2 and WRC rally Evolved.
@@Converge3 And it's also the first A.I. to actually make me sweat if you choose a difficult race. They didn't follow a solid path and felt life like when they were trying to pass you.
Its amazing how good this game looks, reflecting light on different surfaces of the car, 17 years ago. Rallisport Challenge 2 looked even better and is one of the only childhood games I can look back and say they still look good.
Rallisport challenge my favourite rally game, and it has 4player Splitscreen!!!, although, apart from the missing Bugeye Subaru, Rallisport challenge 2 improves on everything the first one did!
So glad I recently found this channel. I've been buying tons of retro racing game in the last few months, and you've reviewed almost all of them. This game and its sequel were among my recent pickups. Fun games.
There is one cool story about this game maybe u know it. There was some guy who played this game on xbox as a kid along with his dad. Some time later his dad died due cancer i think. That guy put xbox in a box and u know forget about it. Ten years later he found a box with xbox in it and it was all dusty something like that. He turn it on and found this game again and played it. But in some stage he found a ghost car u know best stage time which his dad set back 10 years earlier. He played for a little while to catch that dads ghosy time and when he overtaked, he stopped before the finsih line so dads ghost can be there as some memory from his childhood. I dont know if this is true story but its definetly a nice one and emotional.
The quality gap in games in that gen was unreal, unlike any other gen. The Xbox just crushed the other two when it came to graphics, performance, and expansiveness. I remember playing third party titles on the GC and PS2 and they just could not compare to the Xbox versions, especially the Splinter Cell games.
I know this may sound like I’m begging, but Please review Forza Motorsport 3 and 4. They’re my favourite games of the series and I would love to see your views on them
“Always stick with all-wheel drive” That’s if the player isn’t a hardcore racer. Some players/drivers have learned throttle management, so RWD is no issue. Look at what Kimi Räikkönen has done. Rally, NASCAR, and F1. All of the cars in those series’ have cars that can slide out easily, and the Iceman has learned how to drive them.
There are Rally Tracks in Forza Horizon 4, and the implementation of Seasons means you can drive in the snow too. Thus, Microsoft got Arcade Rally Racers covered to some extent.
Is this the game where some guy found his deceased fathers drivers ghost from when he was young and tried to beat it, but once he got faster he delibirately stopped so the ghost wouldn't get deleted
MOAR RACING REVIEWS PLEASE. lol racing game reviews are pretty hard to find on youtube. I love how you review hidden/forgotten racing gems. your channel fucking rocks
My dad bought this game when it came out. First time I actually played it was about two years ago. And I really enjoyed this game. Nice to see someone actually covering it in a video.
Rallisport Challenge was also on the PC, it wasn't Xbox exclusive. The second one (which for me was even better) was the exclusive one and one that was unfortunately not compatible with the 360. Got it with my 360 thinking it was compatible (and not able to afford any decent 360 launch games) but alas it wasn't.
the games I played the most on the xbox sonic heros, burnout 3, burnout revenge, nfs u2, colin macre wrc 2005, star wars battlefront, lego star wars the video game,
This is still one of my favourite rally game of all time, and Rallisport Challenge 2 as well. Wish they add these games to backward compatibility list someday.
very nice review now i am definitely getting this someday also i have a review suggestion for you. May you please review Hot Wheels: World Race for PS2 or Xbox?
Awesome review man! Being a huge Xbox 360 fan, I recently decided to buy an old Xbox about 2 years ago and also bought the Pound HDMI kit for it and ended up loving the system so much I bought 3 more for backup and now have over 100 OG Xbox titles. Dirt Cheap mind you (one OG Xbox I only paid $10 canadian for). Rallisport Challenge is a blast and I love how you mention the positive aspects of this game instead of just bashing it like IGN does on all their reviews. And to answer your question, Forza did take their tracks to the sand and to the rally aspects with their the Horizon titles, just not the snow. The rally DLC for Forza Horizon 1 is amazing! Loved your comment about all the Xbox games having aggressive A.I.....so true!
I’d love to see you review RalliSport Challenge 2, but I’m guessing you don’t have an original Xbox (RSC2 is not backwards compatible on Xbox 360). Also, you actually can restart races - but only if you selected Beginner difficulty.
Rallisport Challenge was the game that came with the first Xbox I purchased in '03. I had also bought Project Gotham Racing 2, and Baldur's Gate II[?] as well. Of the 3, I had dumped countless hours of enjoyable racing in PGR2 and RSC.
Why dont you just pick up an original xbox off ebay? you can find working ones piss easy and for less than £30. i got mine for 25 and it came with a controller and 2 games
Why did I hear the menu song from Rallisport Challenge 2 near the end of the video? Please, please please tell me you are going to review that game too :) I personally have not yet played Rallisport Challenge, but I grew up with RC2 and recently started it over for the third time. 'Small' summary: Good points: You can tell track memorisation occured, especially in the Amateur and Pro championship where I blew away the competition with stage- or laptimes regularly over 10 to 20 seconds faster then the AI. In Champion Career I only met my challenge at nighttime or pure bad luck. Even processing through the 3 championships is enough to learn most of the tracks. There are multiple locations, 2 for RX, IceRX and Crossover with each location having 4 variants, 3 locations for Hillclimb, with each about 6 or 8 stages(roughly 4 up and 4 down) and 4 Rally with each about 12 or 14 stages. Various weather conditons, though bound to the stage or track, changes the looks of the area, and changes how the cars react. Changing road conditions also helpes with those 2 points, but also makes your car filthy really quick. Even tarmac can make your white machine brown. SADLY this is 'washed off' for the next stage, even if that stage is at the same location. A good thing, but also quite bad, is that damage sustained on one stage, does not carry over to the next. Reasonable if you go from the UK to Australia for a single stage each, but not when all stages are in Monte Carlo or any other place! SUPERRALLY is amazing(accessable after finishing Champion championship, or after said and prior 2 championships if you go all the way), where you only drive Group B cars, yes, GROUP B CARS (8 in game total). And these things are almost made out of cardboard sometimes, considering their speed and undrivability when using for the first time. Which, although realistic, can be a pain in the arse. Hillclimb cars (2 accessable from the start, but 4 out of 8 already by the end of Amateur championship) are just about the same as Group B (obtainable halfway through Pro championship), but feel more controllable. On an Hillclimb course that is, on a rally stage, I'd say the perfect learning grounds for getting into Group B cars. About cars, A LOT! 8 cars per discipline and. Sadly the Classics (Ford GT70, Alpine A110 and Lancia Stratos) are not used for events at all, only bonusess for completing a championship. Yet a blast to drive in single race or time attack due to one of maybe 5 cars in game being RWD. Car damage does effect driving capabilities BIGTIME, you can lose 1 wheel at most, but boy are you incapacitated with that. Damage levels increase with the championship, but in timeattack or single race you can select one of the 3 gradiants. Car setups are great and deep and can change how cars handle totally, but using it is not necessary to win at all. Play around with it though and you can shave off seconds if done right, or end up in trees, rocks or whatever if done 'wrong'. 4 PLAYER SPLITSCREEN, great fun when taken serious, but, when you have that one friend that loves to crash into you and your buddies, turns into even more fun. There is no official demolition derby mode in the game, but 4 player splitscreen is most likely always that. You can chose of all tracks (rally and hillclimb stages up to 10 km or 16 miles(I think that calculation is accurate), chose to be able to select any car of any spec(someone may chose the fastest car and 'die' while you are smart,maybe) or select what spec you can only chose from(more even playing field), up to 10 laps(also around 10km most likely), FORCE MANUAL GEARS(evil laughter) ,and any of the 3 damage gradiants. Lesser points: Unlocking cars goes fast at first, by the end of Amateur you have all 4 cars of the first 'class' of that spec cars. But slows down to getting almost 1 car of each spec by the end of Pro, but the fastest 3 cars, at the end of the Champion championship. THOUGH you CAN skip Amateur and Pro all together and dive right into Champion, if you think you got what it takes, and unlock everything as well, in a more linear fashion. Greatest downside is that all AI you race in RX, IceRX or Crossover slow down incredibly (sometimes 40 seconds slower then their regular laptimes in Amateur) in the last lap of the race, even if you are ahead. Ruining any taste of a well deserved victory. Nighttime rallies are deadly, or at least downright frustrating, like using one of those keychain lights which you have to hold the button continuously to get light, to look down a road, because your headlights suck(and CAN go out if you hit something head on) and Rally Australia(mostly at places where the ground is more water saturated/darker) and England (TRESS EVERWHERE!!!!) are very dark to begin with. It is to me therefore not unusual to just close EVERY SINGLE curtain and turn off every single light in the room, and sometimes still lose out on the stage victory. Luckily your overall time matters, so placing 10th (of 16) in one stage of a 4 stage rally, does not mean imediately that you lose the overall victory. But it does looks sloppy when you go over the events imo. If you made it all the way here, thank you for reading. Colourshed, and you reader, I hope you get excited to try the game from reading this.
This game was fantastic 20 years ago and is still now. My friends and I played so many rally games in the past years. Various titles of Dirt or Colin McCrae. This one is more of an arcade type of rally, which makes it fun for a quick challenge because the car almost never gets stuck and never breaks. We started playing Dirt Rally for 10 minutes but then kept playing Rallisport Challenge for 2 hours.
Fun fact! The game demos were for the following: Mechassault Project Gotham Racing There was also a Fast and Furious game and something else that I cant remember. It was some sort of third person shooter game. Also this is one of my favorite racing games of all time.
To use the handbrake on the turns you have to do 3 things….#1Release Accelerator & Press the Brakes for just a moment…#2 Press the E-Brake for as long as needed in order to obtain vehicle position to accelerate through the turn…(sometimes pressing accelerator just before releasing e-brake is required)…#3 Press Accelerator and experience Surgical Drifting through turns!!! Please keep in mind it takes some practice to get timing for this method but you will flyby brotha!!
AYE I love Your racing game reviews, maybe check out the later titles in the WRC series for the PS2? I still love Rally Evolved and play it on the emulator with my T300.
Wait a Minute.. STCC was made by Dice? What the hell? I got that game since like 2003 as a budget re-release and it literally has no trademarks on the Cover or the back other than one from the budget-publisher. Even the Disc looks like it's just straight pirated but it really isn't. I can't even remember anything about it, never played it much..
5:07 rare ocassion where "DID YOU SEE THAT!!??" actually applies cause I know for a fact if I did that nobody would bat an eye and said "no you didn't"
I remember playing this and RSC2 on the original Xbox with my racing wheel when I was like seven years old. The memories are real! RSC2 was good but I think I'd prefer this one for nostalgia purposes, but also for the same reason I prefer GTA IV driving over GTA V driving; the earlier game's cars feel more heavy and realistic than the latter in the series.
Oh my god this a nostalgia trip, man. I was 13 when this game came out andI was mowing lawns for money to buy video games and fucking beef jerky. 15 bucks a lawn and I had like 8 lawns to do so it was pretty good... but this one, fairly wealthy lady gave me fucking 50 bucks to mow her lawn once ever 2 weeks..I mowed that bitches lawn so good, got that 50, went to Willow Video and bought this game. I played it so much and I remember thinking how good it looked and how great the physics were. It got lost though the years but I wish Id have kept it.. Id love to play it again. Great video!
"RalliSport Challenge is one of those games that you find at thrift stores" - can confirm, just bought the PC version today at a thrift store for the local equivalent of ~2€, hope it's good. :P
Rallisport 2 is one of those games where every racing gamer should try at least once before they die. 1 and 2 were masterpieces of the arcade rally genre.
Rallisport Challenge 1 was also available for PC. I know because I borrowed the game from a cousin back in the day. However, I couldn't get to play it because my PC at the time didn't meet even the minimum requirements, so even thought it could install, it ran horribly. Still, great game and great series and a shame that it's abandoned and nobody has picked it up and bring it to modern gaming.
I have to admit that the graphic are pretty good, I mostly have had PlayStation consoles all through my childhood so the Xbox is kind of unknown for me except the 360 Wich I did buy before the PS3 because it was a lot cheaper back then. The original Xbox seems to have a lot of great racing games
to answer your question at the end, forza devs are just lazy asf. They like to trickle features down per game, like how they JUST added weather in 7. Its crazy how project cars and gran turismo can have rally added and in their second games and forza cant even add in their 7th! I love forza(well i used to) but theyre kinda loosing their value because they dont do anything but add cars every game (and lock old ones out via dlc). Like the customization is the exact same for the last 4 games ugh where are the features, there are plenty of features missing in 7
TheCraziestGamer yea i enjoyed 6 a lot. I kinda felt like it was what 5 should have been. I like 5 because it was a new gen of course but it was a little lacking on content. 6 had plenty.
2 Player on one gaming console. Nostalgia everytime. Wish you all the best man. Tandems with my cousin sliding on dirt my Saab Vs. My cuz Subi bugg eyes.
You thought no one but you knew about a mass-produced video game for one of the biggst consoles ever.... well, aren't you a delightful little snowflake.
@@ChipWhitingtonIII well with the Xbox community and my friends yeah rallisport challenge is just a lost gem, not every mass produced game gets any attention
I would kill for a modern arcade-y rally game. Most racing games are dead set on hyper realistic simulation for veteran car enthusiasts. This game released around the time I got into cars. Gran Turismo was too much for me at that age. As such I was introduced to a whole new world of racing that American ppl were largely ignorant of.
You should review test drive unlimited
I would dig it.
I support this
Underrated game
😎
Yes and how painfully annoying and insane the police fines are. That ruined what otherwise is an absolute amazing game overall.
As great as this game was at the time, Rallisport Challenge 2 blew this game out of the park. RSC2 is still my favorite rally game of all time. The landscapes are pretty, and the handling is one of the best I have ever seen in any racing game ever. Thanks for both this review and NFSMW and keep up the great work!
I never got a chance to play the first Rallisport, but man, am I glad to have played part 2. Loved the option to upload my own MP3s on the xbox console and use that to race with. so many great memories of doing that. i wish they would bring back that option.
I love it when you review racing games
Yeah boi
Especially older ones!
I loved RSC2 - will you be checking it out in future?
RSC2 is absolutely my favorite racing game on the OG xbox, and I was actually going to suggest in the comments that he review this series a couple of days ago.
It’s sad we never got RSC2 on PC.
@@DOSBrony The Xbox is a gold mine of fantastic racing games (and some not-so-good racing games that I still adore). RalliSport Challenge and RSC2, Forza Motorsport, Project Gotham Racing and PGR2 (which is my personal favourite), various Colin McRae Rally titles, OutRun 2006, Sega GT 2002, Need For Speed Underground 2, Burnout 2/3/Revenge, Midtown Madness 3, The TOCA/V8 Supercars games, Midnight Club 3, Juiced, the list goes on. I also have a soft spot for games that weren't as well received but that I loved like Dakar 2 and Quantum Redshift.
I very patiently await the day that Microsoft brings PGR and PGR2 (or really any of the above) to Xbox Backwards Compatibility.
K W Split Second and Blur were made by Black Rock Studios.
Great review! Must dig it out and give it a go on the xbox 360. Rallisport challenge 2 is fantastic! But sadly not backwards compatable.
Please do a rallisports challange 2 review. This has gotta be one of my favorite rally games of all time back in the day.
This is one of the few games from DICE that I actually enjoyed.
Bad Company 2 and BF4 is the GOAT
I had a playstation 2 but love rally game's and always heard the Xbox had way better rally game's, I might pick up a Xbox just to find out, or though I did actually like Richard Burn's on PlayStation 2 and WRC rally Evolved.
Great review.
Will you review Richard Burns Rally and Dirt 2/3?
or Rally Trophy
or Blur
You should take a look at SEGA Rally on Xbox 360. A very fun and underrated racing game in my opinion.
Very underrated, love the PSP version too.
I have this game for both the PC and original Xbox. It is awesome!
I used to play the demo to this all the time on the original Xbox.
Rallysport challenge 2 is my all-time favorite game
8:08 This has sort of been done in the Forza Horizon series, more specifically the Horizon Rally DLC in the first game.
You need to do a review of Enthusia Professional Racing!
@@Converge3 And it's also the first A.I. to actually make me sweat if you choose a difficult race. They didn't follow a solid path and felt life like when they were trying to pass you.
I remember playing this game endlessly on the Xbox growing up in early 2000's! Reminds me of the classic Colin McRae games too
Its amazing how good this game looks, reflecting light on different surfaces of the car, 17 years ago. Rallisport Challenge 2 looked even better and is one of the only childhood games I can look back and say they still look good.
You played some ugly games I guess 😀 xD
@@wirti94 They're not remotely ugly, and look great on a CRT TV which naturally smooths the jagged edges etc.
Is the escudo still as OP as it was in Gran Turismo 2?
The graphics for RC were outstanding for the time, especially for a console. It still holds up pretty well today, though RC2 looks better.
It was impressive to me back then.
Man this was my childhood right here, and i couldnt remeber for the life of me what this game was called XD
Rallisport challenge my favourite rally game, and it has 4player Splitscreen!!!, although, apart from the missing Bugeye Subaru, Rallisport challenge 2 improves on everything the first one did!
Is the next forza review coming soon?
So glad I recently found this channel. I've been buying tons of retro racing game in the last few months, and you've reviewed almost all of them. This game and its sequel were among my recent pickups. Fun games.
Excuse me but this game was released for Windows aswell but great video as always! i loved playing this as a kid
Another bangin review dude :)
^^ fingers still crossed for Gran Turismo on PSP. Series will be completed.
There is one cool story about this game maybe u know it. There was some guy who played this game on xbox as a kid along with his dad. Some time later his dad died due cancer i think. That guy put xbox in a box and u know forget about it. Ten years later he found a box with xbox in it and it was all dusty something like that. He turn it on and found this game again and played it. But in some stage he found a ghost car u know best stage time which his dad set back 10 years earlier. He played for a little while to catch that dads ghosy time and when he overtaked, he stopped before the finsih line so dads ghost can be there as some memory from his childhood. I dont know if this is true story but its definetly a nice one and emotional.
The quality gap in games in that gen was unreal, unlike any other gen. The Xbox just crushed the other two when it came to graphics, performance, and expansiveness. I remember playing third party titles on the GC and PS2 and they just could not compare to the Xbox versions, especially the Splinter Cell games.
DarthHeretic The Splinter Cell were a generation apart between Xbox and PS2, lol.
@@raresmacovei8382 lol they really were
Still more content than dirt rally 2.0 ^^
Really?
@@shira_yone yeaaaa:( still great game
@@manueljammers4747 objectively? Pls don't be too biased
Asking before I'm considering getting DR2.0
EA should let Dice make racing games again
I wanna see them do another RSC.
I know this may sound like I’m begging, but Please review Forza Motorsport 3 and 4. They’re my favourite games of the series and I would love to see your views on them
“Always stick with all-wheel drive”
That’s if the player isn’t a hardcore racer. Some players/drivers have learned throttle management, so RWD is no issue. Look at what Kimi Räikkönen has done. Rally, NASCAR, and F1. All of the cars in those series’ have cars that can slide out easily, and the Iceman has learned how to drive them.
The Colin McRae dirt series please!
Great graphics, looks like it could have been released on the 360
There are Rally Tracks in Forza Horizon 4, and the implementation of Seasons means you can drive in the snow too. Thus, Microsoft got Arcade Rally Racers covered to some extent.
Just wait until you play the sequel! It pretty much destroyed the first game!
What do you mean??
I think he means it is a lot better
Microsoft should put it on the Xbox One.😊
I had this game. I recall when this came out on the OG box. It was insane, I was hooked on this game. Freaking incredible.
Is this the game where some guy found his deceased fathers drivers ghost from when he was young and tried to beat it, but once he got faster he delibirately stopped so the ghost wouldn't get deleted
Yes it is
You should totally review number 2 it's fantastic
MOAR RACING REVIEWS PLEASE. lol racing game reviews are pretty hard to find on youtube. I love how you review hidden/forgotten racing gems. your channel fucking rocks
Yay...
R S C, what took so long ☺️
WE NEED FORZA MOTORSPORT 4
It came about 3-4 years ago...
@@JinteiModding and this came out even before that.
My dad bought this game when it came out. First time I actually played it was about two years ago. And I really enjoyed this game. Nice to see someone actually covering it in a video.
Rallisport Challenge was also on the PC, it wasn't Xbox exclusive. The second one (which for me was even better) was the exclusive one and one that was unfortunately not compatible with the 360. Got it with my 360 thinking it was compatible (and not able to afford any decent 360 launch games) but alas it wasn't.
Rallisport challenge 2 was my childhood 😍😍😭
This alongside Project Gotham Racing and Sega Rally 95. They're my favourite racing games of all time.
the games I played the most on the xbox
sonic heros, burnout 3, burnout revenge, nfs u2, colin macre wrc 2005, star wars battlefront, lego star wars the video game,
This is still one of my favourite rally game of all time, and Rallisport Challenge 2 as well. Wish they add these games to backward compatibility list someday.
very nice review now i am definitely getting this someday also i have a review suggestion for you. May you please review Hot Wheels: World Race for PS2 or Xbox?
Awesome review man! Being a huge Xbox 360 fan, I recently decided to buy an old Xbox about 2 years ago and also bought the Pound HDMI kit for it and ended up loving the system so much I bought 3 more for backup and now have over 100 OG Xbox titles. Dirt Cheap mind you (one OG Xbox I only paid $10 canadian for). Rallisport Challenge is a blast and I love how you mention the positive aspects of this game instead of just bashing it like IGN does on all their reviews. And to answer your question, Forza did take their tracks to the sand and to the rally aspects with their the Horizon titles, just not the snow. The rally DLC for Forza Horizon 1 is amazing! Loved your comment about all the Xbox games having aggressive A.I.....so true!
I’d love to see you review RalliSport Challenge 2, but I’m guessing you don’t have an original Xbox (RSC2 is not backwards compatible on Xbox 360). Also, you actually can restart races - but only if you selected Beginner difficulty.
Rallisport Challenge was the game that came with the first Xbox I purchased in '03. I had also bought Project Gotham Racing 2, and Baldur's Gate II[?] as well. Of the 3, I had dumped countless hours of enjoyable racing in PGR2 and RSC.
Why dont you just pick up an original xbox off ebay? you can find working ones piss easy and for less than £30. i got mine for 25 and it came with a controller and 2 games
Why did I hear the menu song from Rallisport Challenge 2 near the end of the video? Please, please please tell me you are going to review that game too :) I personally have not yet played Rallisport Challenge, but I grew up with RC2 and recently started it over for the third time.
'Small' summary:
Good points:
You can tell track memorisation occured, especially in the Amateur and Pro championship where I blew away the competition with stage- or laptimes regularly over 10 to 20 seconds faster then the AI. In Champion Career I only met my challenge at nighttime or pure bad luck. Even processing through the 3 championships is enough to learn most of the tracks.
There are multiple locations, 2 for RX, IceRX and Crossover with each location having 4 variants, 3 locations for Hillclimb, with each about 6 or 8 stages(roughly 4 up and 4 down) and 4 Rally with each about 12 or 14 stages.
Various weather conditons, though bound to the stage or track, changes the looks of the area, and changes how the cars react.
Changing road conditions also helpes with those 2 points, but also makes your car filthy really quick. Even tarmac can make your white machine brown. SADLY this is 'washed off' for the next stage, even if that stage is at the same location.
A good thing, but also quite bad, is that damage sustained on one stage, does not carry over to the next. Reasonable if you go from the UK to Australia for a single stage each, but not when all stages are in Monte Carlo or any other place!
SUPERRALLY is amazing(accessable after finishing Champion championship, or after said and prior 2 championships if you go all the way), where you only drive Group B cars, yes, GROUP B CARS (8 in game total). And these things are almost made out of cardboard sometimes, considering their speed and undrivability when using for the first time. Which, although realistic, can be a pain in the arse.
Hillclimb cars (2 accessable from the start, but 4 out of 8 already by the end of Amateur championship) are just about the same as Group B (obtainable halfway through Pro championship), but feel more controllable. On an Hillclimb course that is, on a rally stage, I'd say the perfect learning grounds for getting into Group B cars.
About cars, A LOT! 8 cars per discipline and. Sadly the Classics (Ford GT70, Alpine A110 and Lancia Stratos) are not used for events at all, only bonusess for completing a championship. Yet a blast to drive in single race or time attack due to one of maybe 5 cars in game being RWD.
Car damage does effect driving capabilities BIGTIME, you can lose 1 wheel at most, but boy are you incapacitated with that. Damage levels increase with the championship, but in timeattack or single race you can select one of the 3 gradiants.
Car setups are great and deep and can change how cars handle totally, but using it is not necessary to win at all. Play around with it though and you can shave off seconds if done right, or end up in trees, rocks or whatever if done 'wrong'.
4 PLAYER SPLITSCREEN, great fun when taken serious, but, when you have that one friend that loves to crash into you and your buddies, turns into even more fun. There is no official demolition derby mode in the game, but 4 player splitscreen is most likely always that.
You can chose of all tracks (rally and hillclimb stages up to 10 km or 16 miles(I think that calculation is accurate), chose to be able to select any car of any spec(someone may chose the fastest car and 'die' while you are smart,maybe) or select what spec you can only chose from(more even playing field), up to 10 laps(also around 10km most likely), FORCE MANUAL GEARS(evil laughter) ,and any of the 3 damage gradiants.
Lesser points:
Unlocking cars goes fast at first, by the end of Amateur you have all 4 cars of the first 'class' of that spec cars. But slows down to getting almost 1 car of each spec by the end of Pro, but the fastest 3 cars, at the end of the Champion championship. THOUGH you CAN skip Amateur and Pro all together and dive right into Champion, if you think you got what it takes, and unlock everything as well, in a more linear fashion.
Greatest downside is that all AI you race in RX, IceRX or Crossover slow down incredibly (sometimes 40 seconds slower then their regular laptimes in Amateur) in the last lap of the race, even if you are ahead. Ruining any taste of a well deserved victory.
Nighttime rallies are deadly, or at least downright frustrating, like using one of those keychain lights which you have to hold the button continuously to get light, to look down a road, because your headlights suck(and CAN go out if you hit something head on) and Rally Australia(mostly at places where the ground is more water saturated/darker) and England (TRESS EVERWHERE!!!!) are very dark to begin with. It is to me therefore not unusual to just close EVERY SINGLE curtain and turn off every single light in the room, and sometimes still lose out on the stage victory.
Luckily your overall time matters, so placing 10th (of 16) in one stage of a 4 stage rally, does not mean imediately that you lose the overall victory. But it does looks sloppy when you go over the events imo.
If you made it all the way here, thank you for reading. Colourshed, and you reader, I hope you get excited to try the game from reading this.
forza horizon 4 has some rally events perhaps you'd fancy checking it out ;)
Why am I watching reviews for 10 years old games that I will never play ?
This game was fantastic 20 years ago and is still now. My friends and I played so many rally games in the past years. Various titles of Dirt or Colin McCrae. This one is more of an arcade type of rally, which makes it fun for a quick challenge because the car almost never gets stuck and never breaks. We started playing Dirt Rally for 10 minutes but then kept playing Rallisport Challenge for 2 hours.
7:46 just like ATI Radeon that was purchased by AMD
Fun fact! The game demos were for the following:
Mechassault
Project Gotham Racing
There was also a Fast and Furious game and something else that I cant remember. It was some sort of third person shooter game.
Also this is one of my favorite racing games of all time.
Waaaait, didn't V8 Challenge start as a mod for F1 Challenge 99-02?
To use the handbrake on the turns you have to do 3 things….#1Release Accelerator & Press the Brakes for just a moment…#2 Press the E-Brake for as long as needed in order to obtain vehicle position to accelerate through the turn…(sometimes pressing accelerator just before releasing e-brake is required)…#3 Press Accelerator and experience Surgical Drifting through turns!!! Please keep in mind it takes some practice to get timing for this method but you will flyby brotha!!
AYE I love Your racing game reviews, maybe check out the later titles in the WRC series for the PS2? I still love Rally Evolved and play it on the emulator with my T300.
Wait a Minute..
STCC was made by Dice? What the hell?
I got that game since like 2003 as a budget re-release and it literally has no trademarks on the Cover or the back other than one from the budget-publisher.
Even the Disc looks like it's just straight pirated but it really isn't.
I can't even remember anything about it, never played it much..
5:07 rare ocassion where "DID YOU SEE THAT!!??" actually applies cause I know for a fact if I did that nobody would bat an eye and said "no you didn't"
Imagine unironically thinking Star Wars battlefront 2 is somehow hated. Oof.
One of the best rally games on of Xbox but is it backwards compatible on X1X? Colin McRae 2005 on Xbox is awesome.
I remember playing this and RSC2 on the original Xbox with my racing wheel when I was like seven years old. The memories are real! RSC2 was good but I think I'd prefer this one for nostalgia purposes, but also for the same reason I prefer GTA IV driving over GTA V driving; the earlier game's cars feel more heavy and realistic than the latter in the series.
Please do RSC2!!!
Oh my god this a nostalgia trip, man. I was 13 when this game came out andI was mowing lawns for money to buy video games and fucking beef jerky. 15 bucks a lawn and I had like 8 lawns to do so it was pretty good... but this one, fairly wealthy lady gave me fucking 50 bucks to mow her lawn once ever 2 weeks..I mowed that bitches lawn so good, got that 50, went to Willow Video and bought this game. I played it so much and I remember thinking how good it looked and how great the physics were. It got lost though the years but I wish Id have kept it.. Id love to play it again. Great video!
handling settings make a HUGE difference in car behaviour
Have you ever played midnight Club 3? This game is even harder because its opponents are more aggressive. By the way it is s ps2 only game.
"RalliSport Challenge is one of those games that you find at thrift stores" - can confirm, just bought the PC version today at a thrift store for the local equivalent of ~2€, hope it's good. :P
Rallisport 2 is one of those games where every racing gamer should try at least once before they die. 1 and 2 were masterpieces of the arcade rally genre.
Rallisport Challenge 1 was also available for PC. I know because I borrowed the game from a cousin back in the day. However, I couldn't get to play it because my PC at the time didn't meet even the minimum requirements, so even thought it could install, it ran horribly. Still, great game and great series and a shame that it's abandoned and nobody has picked it up and bring it to modern gaming.
I have to admit that the graphic are pretty good, I mostly have had PlayStation consoles all through my childhood so the Xbox is kind of unknown for me except the 360 Wich I did buy before the PS3 because it was a lot cheaper back then. The original Xbox seems to have a lot of great racing games
to answer your question at the end, forza devs are just lazy asf. They like to trickle features down per game, like how they JUST added weather in 7. Its crazy how project cars and gran turismo can have rally added and in their second games and forza cant even add in their 7th! I love forza(well i used to) but theyre kinda loosing their value because they dont do anything but add cars every game (and lock old ones out via dlc). Like the customization is the exact same for the last 4 games ugh where are the features, there are plenty of features missing in 7
Forza Motorsport 6 is the only good FM this gen, no lie lol
TheCraziestGamer yea i enjoyed 6 a lot. I kinda felt like it was what 5 should have been. I like 5 because it was a new gen of course but it was a little lacking on content. 6 had plenty.
Never knew bout this one, I'm guessing there is absolutely NO cockpit view? But still looks fun 💯🇮🇪🎄
Just a tip upscale to 4K before you upload, youtube will use a higher bit rate when encoding,
2 Player on one gaming console. Nostalgia everytime. Wish you all the best man. Tandems with my cousin sliding on dirt my Saab Vs. My cuz Subi bugg eyes.
Oh wow I was just thinking of getting this game, best timing for a review ever! XD
The menu is strikingly similar to Forza Motorsport (2 if I’m correct, but probably 1 as well.)
This review makes me play Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (not DiRT Rally 2.0)
The first games handling was atrocious. It was nearly unplayable. I did enjoy the second game though.
Love this game I thought no one really knew this game guess not
You thought no one but you knew about a mass-produced video game for one of the biggst consoles ever.... well, aren't you a delightful little snowflake.
@@ChipWhitingtonIII well with the Xbox community and my friends yeah rallisport challenge is just a lost gem, not every mass produced game gets any attention
@@ChipWhitingtonIII also I'm not white
You should review: Colin McRae DiRT from 2007
Just picked this up after watching your review, its pretty dam good.
I would kill for a modern arcade-y rally game. Most racing games are dead set on hyper realistic simulation for veteran car enthusiasts. This game released around the time I got into cars. Gran Turismo was too much for me at that age. As such I was introduced to a whole new world of racing that American ppl were largely ignorant of.
Why don’t you review bf3? Or just all the battlefield games
This was also my first game on OG Xbox was thinking about it the other day then this came up. Good stuff!
Rallisport Challenge was awesome but the 2nd game is better and in 480P.
If you want Forza offroading, then the Horizon games are probably your best bet.
I bought it last week off eBay for like $6 for the original Xbox I love this game 19 years old and still looks great
Just wondering if will do rallisportchallange2 review? I own that game and it was my first ever game too and I’d love to hear you opinion on the game
I remember I played the demo version of this game so long ago when my Xbox was still working.
Lovely FPS buuuuut it was a game for simpletons.
Just bought a copy of this for super cheap at a local used video game store!
Wait, is this the same co driver from the first two Colin McRae Rally games?
Really wish you'd review 2 as it was the superior game. There are none on youtube newer than 10+ years. This series needs more love
Will you do ralli challenge2? Sorry for my spelling im sleepy
Will you review another Midnight Club game?