After parting ways with EA, WRC (Dirt Rally) gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series

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• resetbypeer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Won’t be long and codemasters will end up like all other legendary studios like Maxis, Westwoods, Origin and many many more… On the EA graveyard

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• vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seems to be just going back to the previous publisher, which didn’t exactly release amazing rally games when they had the license. Maybe they’ll surprise me, but I suspect Dirt Rally 2.0 and Richard Burns Rally will continue to be the main options for a while longer.

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  • Kernal64@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t hold your breath. Word is, those recent EA layoffs hit a lot of the Codemasters people, including the teams working on their rally games. They mostly kept the F1 team because that series inexplicably sells tons every release (never been an F1 fan myself, but there does seem to be an appetite for those games). Anyone not on the F1 team was moved to another internal EA team whose name escapes me at the moment and they’re working as a support team for others.

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    • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was talking about Nacon (the new/old WRC publisher) not EA or Codemasters, but agreed.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But isn’t that a good thing for this? It means the old Codemasters team is no longer at EA, and maybe they’ll find a job here now.

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• 7arakun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I loved Grid and Dirt 3, but haven’t really played any of the games since. I played Grid 2 a little bit when it went on sale. I’m interested if this new one is as good as those were.

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  • vonxylofon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dirt 3 was absolute garbage. Dirt Rally was great, if not a bit spartan, and Dirt Rally 2.0 is what I can recommend as possibly the best rallying game since Richard Burns.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dirt 2 is still one is my favourite racing games. It just gives me the right vibes. 3 felt lonely in comparison

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    • PrinzKasper@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I will not hear this slander, Dirt 3 was awesome! Dirt 4 and 5 were meh though.

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  • StereoCode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not sure what crack this other dude is smoking but dirt 3 was awesome. I loved all the drifting time trials. Totally reminded me of Project Gotham racing.

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    • 7arakun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I loved Project Gotham too!

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• Brett@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Eeeew, Nacon. No thanks.

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• wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have not played a wrc game in years I might have to check this one out.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is this the same Rally series as Top Gear Rally on N64? I loved that game.

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