Product Description

Sega Rally will encourage players to put the pedal to the metal and enjoy thrilling head-to-head racing. Skilled driving will go hand-in-hand with pure luck as you hurtle around looping tracks in a wide selection of 4WD, 2WD & Classic vehicles that react quite differently depending upon the racing surface. Sega Rally offers a vast variety of fully deformable environments and surfaces, from littered gravel tracks, all weather tarmac roads, to snow driven trails - no two laps will never be the same.

Players rallying skills will be tested to the limit as aside from the sleek motors on offer, Sega Rally also offers players an advanced AI that takes into account the racing surface to adapt their driving style to suit. Single player and multiplayer split screen, along with online capabilities will offer race fans an unbelievably competitive and first class driving experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5758 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2007-09-28
• Platform: Sony PSP
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Sega Rally will encourage players to put the pedal to the metal and enjoy thrilling head-to-head racing. Skilled driving will go hand-in-hand with pure luck as you hurtle around looping tracks in a wide selection of 4WD, 2WD & Classic vehicles that react quite differently depending upon the racing surface. Sega Rally offers a vast variety of fully deformable environments and surfaces, from littered gravel tracks and all-weather tarmac roads to snow driven trails - no two laps will ever be the same.

Players’ rallying skills will be tested to the limit as aside from the sleek motors on offer, Sega Rally also offers players an advanced AI that takes into account the racing surface to adapt their driving style to suit. Single player and multiplayer split screen, along with online capabilities will offer race fans an unbelievably competitive and first class driving experience.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant game
Sega Rally PSP is a joy to play. The graphics are very good for psp and it's just alot of fun. It still needs alot of skill to win races though. The championship mode is quite short, but it gets difficult towards the end but it's worth it to unlock all the cars. Even after finishing the campaign mode there is still lots of replay value in playing on whether it's doing quick races, championship or online, if you love this game or rally games it should never get boring!

Online is great, much better than I expected. It's really easy to get into a game or create one. Sega's really done well here. The host chooses the track and then everyone chooses their car and tyres, and you can play on any of the 15 tracks too so it's worthwhile playing alot before going online so you know the tracks well.

So in conclusion this is a really excellent game. Certainly a must for people with a PSP who love rally games! or racing games pretty much, this is a load of fun. Online excels, see for yourself!

Patrick

Sega Rally, Could be better!
I was given Sega Rally as a present for christmas, and could'nt wait to get started, but not far in found that the game is very easy and dosent take alot of skill to complete, i have been use to Ridge Racer where there is a bit of skill needed in getting around the course's, but i have found as long as you keep your thumb planted on the X button then you will win, there are 4 different course types Canyon, Safari, Arctic, and Alp's, varying tracks but all the same really, they give you lots of cars but you can win every thing with the same car, over all a poor show from Sega, i feel they could of tried harder...

Lacks the classic Sega Rally spark
The original Sega Rally released back in 1995 by AM5 (aka Sega Rosso) in the arcades, and converted to Sega Saturn by AM3 the same year, is still one of my all-time favourite racing games. Needless to say I couldn't wait to get my hands on the latest version for PSP. I was hoping for the old magic to be replicated for this version with some modern tweaks (much like Sega stayed true to the Outrun franchise with Outrun 2) but sadly this is not the case. That's not to say this is a terrible game by any means but things have changed considerably in the years dividing both games.

The old Sega Rally pitted you against 19 other opponents and you had to come first by the time you reached the end of the final stage (of which there were only three, plus a bonus hidden track), should you be skillful enough to beat the time limit. The time limit in this game has been removed and the number of AI opponents falls considerably to just five. There are now more tracks and cars to race (there were only two cars in the original, plus a bonus hidden car) as the quantity found in the original would not suffice today.

Despite the extra tracks and cars, the game is still extremely short - there are only four modes of play: Quick Race, Championship, Time Attack and Multiplayer (which features full infrastructure support for online gaming against others across the country or in another country). The Championship mode is the main meat of the game but it is quite short and relatively easy to complete, requiring little skill to progress (the break button barely needs to be used, just keeping your finger on accelerate all the way round the tracks is sufficient to win races). Online play will extend the life of the game slightly but I soon got bored of it, mainly because there don't seem to be that many people online to race against.

The graphics are very colourful, perhaps too much so because they look almost cartoonish as a result. But I do still think the game is very pretty to look at and runs smoothly with only a few graphical errors (pop-up, jaggies, clipping etc) noticeable at times. The handling is considerably looser than the tight, responsive controls of the original so might take a while to get used to - I was very unsure of the controls at first but they do become increasingly user-friendly after a few races. It has to be said that the sound is not particularly good - the music is very generic and the voice-overs are a bit annoying.

Overall, this is reasonably playable and fun for a while but is far too short to offer any prolonged replay value. It also lacks that "special something" of the original - maybe this is because no AM division of Sega was responsible for this version, with Bugbear at the realms instead. In short, it doesn't feel like the Sega Rally of old and this is a negative for me. In an already saturated PSP racing game market this doesn't really stand out from the crowd. It would be unfair to call this game anything less than reasonable but the original 1995 versin still offers the definitive Sega Rally experience.