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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@DragonsIayer182 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.
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.
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.
This is the game that made me buy an XBox. haha I played a demo version of this at Walmart and had to have more of it in my life. MUCH MORE! Thanks for the review man. Love the channel! Also, greetings from NC, USA!
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!
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.
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
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.
Well done for covering this awesome game. This was a real test of graphical horsepower back in the "earlier" days of the PC's march towards photorealism. This game was no slouch, considering such greatness which came before. Such as Colin McRae Rally | 2.0
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.
This really takes me back, mainly because Rallisport Challenge was my introduction to Xbox. Most of my memories of this game come back to how my dad bought it, the Xbox, plus Crazy Taxi 3 and Blinx the Time Sweeper one day, but seeing as my dad is also that guy who likes to haggle on fixed prices in stores, we only paid just over 50% what the total came to. I still feel bad for the guy who sold it to us - he looked so horrified at being haggled with but also like he was so desperate not to lose a big sale, so he just settled on it in the end. It's still an awesome game though. The road stages in particular have this feeling like you're right on the edge of grip, where if you get it right you can be lightning fast, but pushing it a little too far means game over, and it's always been difficult for racing games to properly nail that - but this still feels tight. The snow stages are great too, you can chain 4-wheel ice drifts through corners like it's nobody's business.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
i started playing rally games when i first played the colin mcrae demo from the official playstation magazine in 98 or something and i loved it. but in the modern rally games drifting is so unbelievably difficult. its like every dirt track is covered in ice and im driving with slicks.the only parts / tracks i like are the tarmac sections because then its actually fun to maneuver corners.
“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.
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"
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.
Wow, only 2 days after I get the idea to suggest this series in the comments (Which I forgot to do), this pops up! I hope you plan to review RSC2, it's an improvement and one of my top 5 games on the OG xbox.
This game looks so freaking good for the early 2000s. Just about as good as modern games. Games of it's time doesn't look this good it's wild. I had Rallisport challenge 2 and it's great. Better then one as a matter of fact
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!!
I had this game on PC as a Christmas present back in 2002. I missed playing it, so I bought it again from eBay. Never owned an Xbox, so I can't say how that compares to the one on PC.
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.
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.
The reason you’re slower on the checkpoint where you go full throttle is either because of the exit of the corner to the start of the straightaway, or your car’s gears are too short, and either have to tune the gears or pick a different car.
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 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
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
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.
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
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.
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!
This is one of the few games from DICE that I actually enjoyed.
Bad Company 2 and BF4 is the GOAT
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.
Please do a rallisports challange 2 review. This has gotta be one of my favorite rally games of all time back in the day.
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.
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.
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.
I remember playing this game endlessly on the Xbox growing up in early 2000's! Reminds me of the classic Colin McRae games too
Rallysport challenge 2 is my all-time favorite game
Man this was my childhood right here, and i couldnt remeber for the life of me what this game was called XD
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.
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 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.
@@DragonsIayer182 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.
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.
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.
8:08 This has sort of been done in the Forza Horizon series, more specifically the Horizon Rally DLC in the first game.
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.
Great review.
Will you review Richard Burns Rally and Dirt 2/3?
or Rally Trophy
or Blur
This is the game that made me buy an XBox. haha I played a demo version of this at Walmart and had to have more of it in my life. MUCH MORE! Thanks for the review man. Love the channel! Also, greetings from NC, USA!
First game I ever worked on was porting this to PC. Fun to see a review of it now ColourShedProductions
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!
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.
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
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.
Well done for covering this awesome game. This was a real test of graphical horsepower back in the "earlier" days of the PC's march towards photorealism. This game was no slouch, considering such greatness which came before. Such as Colin McRae Rally | 2.0
Another bangin review dude :)
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.
Excuse me but this game was released for Windows aswell but great video as always! i loved playing this as a kid
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.
Great video! I love the way you do quick reviews!
This really takes me back, mainly because Rallisport Challenge was my introduction to Xbox. Most of my memories of this game come back to how my dad bought it, the Xbox, plus Crazy Taxi 3 and Blinx the Time Sweeper one day, but seeing as my dad is also that guy who likes to haggle on fixed prices in stores, we only paid just over 50% what the total came to. I still feel bad for the guy who sold it to us - he looked so horrified at being haggled with but also like he was so desperate not to lose a big sale, so he just settled on it in the end.
It's still an awesome game though. The road stages in particular have this feeling like you're right on the edge of grip, where if you get it right you can be lightning fast, but pushing it a little too far means game over, and it's always been difficult for racing games to properly nail that - but this still feels tight. The snow stages are great too, you can chain 4-wheel ice drifts through corners like it's nobody's business.
Oh wow I was just thinking of getting this game, best timing for a review ever! XD
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.
Loving all the reviews recently bro! :)
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!
Just picked this up after watching your review, its pretty dam good.
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.
The split-screen was the highlight of this game.....
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
Rallisport challenge 2 was my childhood 😍😍😭
These thumbnails are blending together man, I almost didn't notice it was a new one.
This game was my childhood on the xbox, thanks!
^^ fingers still crossed for Gran Turismo on PSP. Series will be completed.
This was also my first game on OG Xbox was thinking about it the other day then this came up. Good stuff!
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!
This was the first xbox game I bought. Having got Sega GT2002 and Jet Set Radio Future with it. This brings me back, good times.
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.
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.
i started playing rally games when i first played the colin mcrae demo from the official playstation magazine in 98 or something and i loved it. but in the modern rally games drifting is so unbelievably difficult. its like every dirt track is covered in ice and im driving with slicks.the only parts / tracks i like are the tarmac sections because then its actually fun to maneuver corners.
Is the escudo still as OP as it was in Gran Turismo 2?
This alongside Project Gotham Racing and Sega Rally 95. They're my favourite racing games of all time.
“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.
I enjoy your reviews. Great work!
You should totally review number 2 it's fantastic
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"
really enjoy your reviews, especially racing games
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.
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
I remember seeing a long trailer of this game years ago when I was just learning what computers are.
I loved this game back in the day!
Is the next forza review coming soon?
I played this in m childhood and still remember all of it to this day. Omfg.
I remember I played the demo version of this game so long ago when my Xbox was still working.
The Colin McRae dirt series please!
Most fun i had was racing uphill with summer tyres on the wintertrack.
Wow, only 2 days after I get the idea to suggest this series in the comments (Which I forgot to do), this pops up! I hope you plan to review RSC2, it's an improvement and one of my top 5 games on the OG xbox.
This game looks so freaking good for the early 2000s. Just about as good as modern games. Games of it's time doesn't look this good it's wild. I had Rallisport challenge 2 and it's great. Better then one as a matter of fact
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!!
I had this game on PC as a Christmas present back in 2002. I missed playing it, so I bought it again from eBay. Never owned an Xbox, so I can't say how that compares to the one on PC.
This game still looks great, I have it on PC and if I buy an old Xbox I will certainly try to get this one and it's sequel.
DICE made MotorHead? Wow, didn't knew that. MotorHead is an awesome game, I recommend making a review on it! Great arcade racer! :)
Might be my favorite rally game ever
Love your reviews, more please.
RSC has one of the most charming replays, sometimes cutting to animals. I wish other games focus more on the courses rather than cars like that.
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.
Just bought a copy of this for super cheap at a local used video game store!
The game looked very good for a 2002 title. I had the chance to play it back then!
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.
God I loved this game. Back when games were games
The reason you’re slower on the checkpoint where you go full throttle is either because of the exit of the corner to the start of the straightaway, or your car’s gears are too short, and either have to tune the gears or pick a different car.
It got released for pc. I don't remember how long after the initial launch on the xbox.
I do remember it playing it on pc as a kid though.
Man you made better reviews than IGN
this video brought back lost memories
I know other people have already suggested it but I think you should do Test Drive Unlimited. Keep up the good work
Wow....so much nostalgia!
that is so strange that dice is credited in nfshp, when the later ones are using the forstbite engines
Keep up the hard work, you'll going to expload!
Great review. I used to love this game as a kid. Please review Project Gotham Racing 3, such an underrated game imo
Please do RSC2!!!
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 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
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
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
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
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 take a look at the DiRT series. More specifically DiRT Rally
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.
You should review Juiced, it is a rather rare game nowadays but hey it was great when I was ten