I think what they ultimately got right with this game is the fun factor. We can argue all day which game is more realistic, but for me what really matters is that this is the most fun I've had with a rally game since Dirt 2 back on the PS3. The sounds, cars, stages and different modes really make it a cut above the rest. Sim racers can always hop onto RBR, that game isn't going anywhere, but for people like me who enjoy some authentic rally racing that also feels great on a pad, there just hasn't really been anything quite like it.
This is probably the reason why i'll buy it, i play like a moron with a wheel but i'll do it regardless to goof about, so it's important to also be able to play with a controller
@@CHINZIG_UK yeah, I lived on a farm and use to race it around a field. The hedges saved it from getting completely destroyed, still only good for scrap metal after I had it!
i love the track design or its unevenness in this sim, in dirt rally 1 & 2 tracks always seemed way too clean, no ruts, no sudden changes. They dont feel like actual roads you get to drive in countryside. The only sim besides this one which managed to capture it, was rbr. Its hard to put into words, but in other sims except rbr, it feels like rally tracks are made to countryside rather than countryside made to rally track.
The fact they have LONG stages now makes this the first rally game I might actually try out, even if it is semi sim. Long stages are 'realism' in their own way.
@@Jebadieyea yeah but its still not full simulation. If you want best recreation of real life you still have to choose modded Richard Burns Rally but its defenetly a upgrade to DR 2.0
Ive been lucky enough to sit in a real 205 T16 (B555 SRW).. couldn't believe how basic it was and how flimsy everything felt.. the doors could've been made from paper mache.. absolutely stank of fuel too... Seen the Safari version on display at the Peugeot musuem too, best cars ever made! (Oh, with a bit of Jean Todt input too..)
Great video again Mr. Broadbent. If you like these cars so much, why not going to watch them in real life? Have a look at the eifel rallye festival. Normally the 4th week of July in Daun. 30-40 minutes south of the nurburgring. 4 days of incredible cars including the finest group b cars. If you want you can join us. We are going there every year for the last 6 years.
I saw a T16 at Goodwood a few years ago. It’s great to hear that the character of the car comes through in the game as IRL it is a beast. At idle it sounded dangerous. On launch it looked like it tried to rotate the planet, dug four holes and then vanished in a screaming rage. Awesome.
I love how the stages look in this - Dirt's stages always had a bit of a cut/paste feel to them, not helped by the fact so many of them were actually just reversed/shortened/slightly alternate versions of each other. This looks so much more like an actual road, both the scenery and even the road surface itself with the potholes and rocks and the parts where it just turns into tracks with grass growing through it. I do hope the damage modeling at least has the option for realistic damage, I found in the old Dirt games even on the hardcore mode you never really suffered literal stage ending damage until you'd had multiple really big crashes. The 'one crash and your rally is over' feeling is still something only RBR has really managed to do well.
That within the years and conditions Group B took place (overcrowded spectators making literal human waves for cars, little to none care for safety by the FIA, cars making 0-60 in 2 seconds ON GRAVEL) would have been an absolute disaster 💀
ive been following the sport my entire life thank you. and if you actually knew anything, im refferring to the earlier game (Dirt Rally 2.0) where the smallest vegetation would damage your car immensly.@@Villardisky
Juha Kankkunen said, that in the end the cars were so powerfull , that if you got yourself into trouble , you just floored it, it never went out of torque or power. He also said , but those cars had breaks too .
The most insane thing about this era is that while the cars were mental, so was everything else. there's footage of Ari Vatenen racing a 405 T16 on the Dakar Rally (Essentially this car with a longer wheelbase and a coupe body) and this bloody DAF truck comes up alongside and is either sitting alongside him or passing him when he's flat out in a Group B car on the Dakar rally. If only someone put the DAF Turbo Twin into a game so that we could experience that mental 3000hp twin engined monster
Hey! My car of choice in group B! I mainly drive historical (group B, group A, H3 mostly) in DR2.0, and I'm still playing the game regularly today, so I'm kind of looking forward to diving into the modern stuff in WRC, but it's still nice to know that there are improvements to look forward to for the historical stuff as well. I'll probably dive pretty quickly into career, since it has a mix of both.
BTW you should drive the S4 next time, it would be hella fun to see you driving that stupidly insane car. The rollcage commentary hit hard. Too soon, man... Henri Toivonen, we still miss you.
9:15-9:19 convinced me. There you can see, how the topology of the surface really is there. You can see, how the car wants to drift sideways, but it is thrown into another direction by drifting through the hill. That could become very interesting for driving. Now you can't just drift around every corner and drive as you usually do, like on almost flat surfaces in the past with maybe a few simulated few bumps that don't affect you and a lot of optics only. Now, you really have to learn how to work WITH the terrain, instead of against it. By looking, by waiting for those bumps and troughs, and steering, using them in a right way, to transfer your weight, so that you can control the direction of your car. Or at 9:27: The pothole is mean! And really well done in terms how it bangs, and really slows you down. PS: I specifically analyzed frame for frame. You really can see, how the car falls into the hole, but the speed is still the same. Then it travels the distance in the hole, and then it hits the other side. Ok, the speed is reduced from 50 to 33 in 1 frame, but you can definitely see the stark slowdown effect.
PPS: On EA Sports WRC website, or if you type in the TH-cam video ID 4JrEzcLEZkE, you can see unobstructed scenes from the game. I typically like the hood view, and it looks good!
What i think ruins a bit the replay system is how the camera is fully locked onto the vehicle, it looks like a 2000's game just for that reason i think , because otherwise in the dashboard cam or when the camera is still in cinematic replays the game looks insanely good. But when chasing the car it looks like a game again. Did codemasters miss this?
Have to remember it is still in beta the version Jimmy is playing and replays etc are normally one of if not the last thing dev's work on. I can't believe I'm defending codemasters/EA on this as I truly don't like them but this game does look like it's going to be good
Older Colin McRae Rally games (2000's like you say) all had cockpit cam that shake with g forces.... But I think there might be a setting somewhere to turn it on. It was permanently on in the older games.
@@LegendaryNuggetsi mean, it's the new rally game it's granted views regardless, but the reception from the real enthusiasts has been honestly positive and i think that he does legitmently enjoy it.
Would love to know how this feels on a wheel Jimmer! Don't know if youre allowed to talk about it yet. You seem to be enjoying it, but would love to know specifics about how it feels with ffb and everything.
It's interesting, it feels like anti-lag killed the turbo lag, but now the turbocharged Rally1 cars are getting something similar in the form of the hybrid boost! Unlike the WRC cars which didn't have either (the turbo lag or the hybrid boost). So I guess we could say the hybrid boost is the current equivalent of turbo lag, at least in terms of catching you by surprise (that is if it works just like in the game, when the boost is activated as soon as you reach a certain percentage of throttle input after it was recharged). Of course, the delay or the power difference aren't as big as with turbo lag in Group B cars, but if it really works like in the game, then drivers could perhaps be caught out by a higher amount of power under their gas pedal (I think Gus Greensmith had a crash last year when that caught him out in one corner, in Spain I believe). Or it may be just my drunk babbling, if so, then please ignore it :D Either way, thanks for making this video with my favorite Group B car. We had a Peugeot 309 for most of my childhood, it was the car in which my parents brought me home from hospital after I was born, and I fell in love with 80s Peugeots because of it (some of our neighbours also had 205s). I discovered this car in Gran Turismo 4 and loved it ever since! Can't wait to drive it in the game (but sadly, school has to be the priority now, as I'm graduating in the spring, so I guess I'm gonna wait until then). Just too bad I don't have a shifter to go with my wheel. But I'm sure it's gonna be a blast either way!
This game is incredible, please don't listen to haters because the fun factor here is awesome. Please don't mess things up in the future Codemasters, you have gotten so many things right with the feel, immersion and sound in this game. If you listen to haters you might just tweak something that doesn't need tweaking. A problem I see in many games lately. Thank you Codemaster, I have a great time in this game. Nice seeing you enjoy it also Jimmy.
great video- i once had a chance to drive one of these IRL for a couple of KM on a tarmac airstrip... i didn't want to do any more, So scary and savage. i also drove a tesla plaid. Tesla may have been faster. But this thing was like going for a walk with a tiger on a leash ( it may just decide to kill you for shits and giggles ) . I will defo get it - but wait for VR
Im gonna be playing this with a gamepad, I've found rally simcades much more enjoyable since I stopped trying to make them as realistic as possible. Sheer fun is what I want these days and I can't wait :)
The poster car for Group B was the Audi Quattro S1, a little heavy, a handful to drive, (much harder than that toycar you are driving) and an absolute beast of a machine. but much better balance,
The Group B drivers had to be completely insane but I loved to watch them drive. I’m surprised those Group B cars could carry the weight of the drivers balls because you had to have huge balls to drive as fast as they did on some of those courses.
Listen, that 205 has always been my favourite car when I was a little whipper snapper what a pleasure to see you send my baby through the fresh plains of Hell
game does still have a bit of that dirt rally 2 phantom force, where it feels like the car has sort of unnatural trajectories when swinging over a bump once the speed picks up.
Serious question here; Jimmer is an Englander. He drives right-hand drive cars every day with the shifter on his left - yet his sim rig has the shifter on his right. Why is this?
Some of his racecars he drives are left-hand drive and so him practicing in the rig with it like that does help. Plus, it is possible to be used to both.
I'm British and I do the same when gaming TBH, never really thought about it - good question! I think the majority of my time for the last few years has been vintage Italian and American cars in Asset to Corsa so they've made sense but that's not really an answer!
@@dodge33cymru I am sure we have all wondered how we would do at Top Gear’s Dunsfold track, and when I do think about this I wonder how much the left-hand shifter would affect my times. I have a feeling it would be just strange enough to cause real concern for me.
The 205 T16 evo 2 could output 550 BHP but it was more like 400 to 450 BHP for the sake of not burning the enigne up. In those days the Rally events were marathons unlike todays more sprint like events. For the Safari the Cars were detuned and fitted with extra armored under trays and bash plates to take on the challenging enviroment. Group B was a mixed bag of cutting edge tech in the Engine and Turbo and some of the electronics mixed with thrown together 4WD drive systems with Braking systems not upto the job and single rate suspension that was still in the older Group 4 erea. Tyres were another tech that lacked it was not unknown that these cars stripped the treads off way before they completed the stages so managing tyres was very important over going flatout. The classic example being the 1985 Sanremo Rally which saw a huge battle between the then New Audi Quattro S1 Evo 2 winged monster Piloted by Driving legend Walter Röhrl and the all winning 205 T16 Evo 1 Röhl gave a master class in fast driving on that multi day event setting a pace so high that the 205 T16's stripped their tyres bare. Röhrl also said if you had time to think driving a Group B car you would be dead there was no time to think. It is hard for those who did not grow up during the 70's and first half of the 80's just what a challeng Rallying was multi day events lasting upto five days .with stages spaning day and nights .with very limited rest times no central services.this was fine with the Group 4 mostly 2 WD cars with upto 275 bhp . But it quickly became dangerous when Group B arrived from 1983 forwards . It was then only a matter of time before something major happened. These cars changed the landscape of Rallying forever . I miss the old marathon events like the Lombard RAC were I got to see my first live rallycars it was a challenge trying to get from one stage to another just to glims a rally car for a few seconds on a stage .being over taken by full blown rally cars while trying to make the next stage underways or having your local Petrol Station been taken over by the works Audi team or Lancia to do between stag service's if only Smart phones had been around then. All is such a long time ago now and they have become myths just like the Silver Arrows were back in the late 30's for GP racing .
I often purchase a rally game on your review/test of the game prior to release. I think I will finally be getting a rally game for the first time in a ling time
hey jimmy loved the video, always bring a smile on my face. i was wondering if you could go to rally scandia(norway next if you are allowed to, or finnland cuz it is pretty damn fast.
If you want to properly do a hand brake turn irl with awd you push the clutch in and pull the hand brake. I’m not sure how the modern ones work but that’s what you have to do for older normal cars.
Looking forward to getting my copy of this on release day. A friend of mine has had the opportunity to be hands on with this since at least this time last year, and has had nothing but good things to say about it. Sure, it isn't a sim, but it's still a damn good game, and I'm finally going to have a good reason to hook up my H-Pattern shifter on my rig :D
All I got is a gamepad but I think I might enjoy this one. Wondering if it will have any multiplayer full rally events like you've done in RBR? I think it's super cool how those events change how ppl drive to preserve the car through an entire event with really high stakes if a crash happens.
Group B Lancia Delta S4. aka the Widowmaker. Most dangerous group b ever. Need to be like ballet driving those monsters. Counter Steering, correct gear in turns, jumps, and bumps. I miss Dirt games, racing online with friends.
I love how there's actually a decision to be made here. Gun it and sacrifice bits of your car but hopefully make up time, or keep it at 60% and survive. This is what the Safari is about
@@heisenberg3206Yeah... The more I watch of these previews the more disappointed I get at the road detail, road surrounding, and general visual aspects.
It needs the “bobble head” movement you get for onboards in GT7. It looks so odd being in a rally car, and the drivers point of view doesn’t move with the bumps on the road surface etc.
10:09 use II gear before curve and if You want hand brake turns keep same time clutch down and but all ready II gear on. to get faster after curve go !
I think what they ultimately got right with this game is the fun factor. We can argue all day which game is more realistic, but for me what really matters is that this is the most fun I've had with a rally game since Dirt 2 back on the PS3. The sounds, cars, stages and different modes really make it a cut above the rest. Sim racers can always hop onto RBR, that game isn't going anywhere, but for people like me who enjoy some authentic rally racing that also feels great on a pad, there just hasn't really been anything quite like it.
Seen your review, looks good
This is probably the reason why i'll buy it, i play like a moron with a wheel but i'll do it regardless to goof about, so it's important to also be able to play with a controller
There ain’t a single person I know that would think RBR is cool, but this is cool
@@Methbilly you do realize that simulator or arcade does not set difficulty right?
@@Methbilly correct, I just wanna play pretend rally driver on a gamepad and have some fun. That's the whole point of a videogame.
You could replace the boost guage with a light. It was either 0 or pegged! 😂
Even better it was pegged at over 3 bars
Boost lag in an 80s single turbo, what? 👀🤨
It’s like a Citröen’s brakes, they’re either on, or off, just like the turbo! 😂😂
@@YoShImUrA53it also has minor boost lag in 2007 WRC cars.
@@LandonH99well also same goes to Mitsubishi Starion 4WD WRC.
The shape and initial design of the 205 is just gorgeous even at factory default.
I owned a 205 1.9 GTI, in my time I only rolled it 3 times in 4 years, which I thought was reasonable for a 20 year old.😅
@@00Clive00☠️
@@00Clive00 3 times!? 🤣
@@CHINZIG_UK yeah, I lived on a farm and use to race it around a field. The hedges saved it from getting completely destroyed, still only good for scrap metal after I had it!
Cheap gti days are long gone now sadly
12:15
That reveal of the rear end had me giggling 🤣🤣🤣
Haha
i love the track design or its unevenness in this sim, in dirt rally 1 & 2 tracks always seemed way too clean, no ruts, no sudden changes. They dont feel like actual roads you get to drive in countryside. The only sim besides this one which managed to capture it, was rbr. Its hard to put into words, but in other sims except rbr, it feels like rally tracks are made to countryside rather than countryside made to rally track.
The fact they have LONG stages now makes this the first rally game I might actually try out, even if it is semi sim. Long stages are 'realism' in their own way.
On a scale of 1-10 how sim is this game? I only played dirt rally 2.0 and I really love that game so just curious
@@Jebadieyeaabout a 5 I guess? I see DR2 as a solid 7
@@CLOYOthis is more realistic than dr 2.0 because they just took the DR 2.0 physics and made them better/ more realistic
@@Emerich2 ohh word that is pretty sick if that is true
@@Jebadieyea yeah but its still not full simulation. If you want best recreation of real life you still have to choose modded Richard Burns Rally but its defenetly a upgrade to DR 2.0
Kenya is an absolute monster to drive in RBR. So glad some of the better stages are showing up in this game
No title is completely realistic but I think from seeing so many previews now, The devs have done enough to make this new rally sim a blast to drive!
wasn't much left of that thing at the end lol. driving it like you stole it is only way worth driving rally sims, so much fun.
Ive been lucky enough to sit in a real 205 T16 (B555 SRW).. couldn't believe how basic it was and how flimsy everything felt.. the doors could've been made from paper mache.. absolutely stank of fuel too... Seen the Safari version on display at the Peugeot musuem too, best cars ever made! (Oh, with a bit of Jean Todt input too..)
light as fuck and overpowered, the group b way
Great video again Mr. Broadbent. If you like these cars so much, why not going to watch them in real life?
Have a look at the eifel rallye festival. Normally the 4th week of July in Daun. 30-40 minutes south of the nurburgring. 4 days of incredible cars including the finest group b cars. If you want you can join us. We are going there every year for the last 6 years.
I saw a T16 at Goodwood a few years ago. It’s great to hear that the character of the car comes through in the game as IRL it is a beast. At idle it sounded dangerous. On launch it looked like it tried to rotate the planet, dug four holes and then vanished in a screaming rage. Awesome.
I love your running commentary whilst driving absolutely flat out Jimmy you’d have made for a great top gear presenter back in the day 👌
doorbent mafia!! also, 10:00 when the co-driver is just sitting there after you crash 🤣🤣
I love how the stages look in this - Dirt's stages always had a bit of a cut/paste feel to them, not helped by the fact so many of them were actually just reversed/shortened/slightly alternate versions of each other. This looks so much more like an actual road, both the scenery and even the road surface itself with the potholes and rocks and the parts where it just turns into tracks with grass growing through it. I do hope the damage modeling at least has the option for realistic damage, I found in the old Dirt games even on the hardcore mode you never really suffered literal stage ending damage until you'd had multiple really big crashes. The 'one crash and your rally is over' feeling is still something only RBR has really managed to do well.
Shoutout to the Call of Duty: World at War soundtrack at 12:30. 😂 Put a lot of hours into that game. Recognise that score anywhere.
6:24 oh my yes!!!! the smallest little damn shrub wont kill you instantly! i love it!
That within the years and conditions Group B took place (overcrowded spectators making literal human waves for cars, little to none care for safety by the FIA, cars making 0-60 in 2 seconds ON GRAVEL) would have been an absolute disaster 💀
ive been following the sport my entire life thank you. and if you actually knew anything, im refferring to the earlier game (Dirt Rally 2.0) where the smallest vegetation would damage your car immensly.@@Villardisky
Juha Kankkunen said, that in the end the cars were so powerfull , that if you got yourself into trouble , you just floored it, it never went out of torque or power. He also said , but those cars had breaks too .
I just love watching you race rally. You take so much joy in it and it comes through. More please.
The most insane thing about this era is that while the cars were mental, so was everything else. there's footage of Ari Vatenen racing a 405 T16 on the Dakar Rally (Essentially this car with a longer wheelbase and a coupe body) and this bloody DAF truck comes up alongside and is either sitting alongside him or passing him when he's flat out in a Group B car on the Dakar rally. If only someone put the DAF Turbo Twin into a game so that we could experience that mental 3000hp twin engined monster
I love the different camera angles, especially when you hit the tree and show the disappointment of your co- driver lol 😆
Love how realistically the boost gauge needle brutally spin once get pressure and after release of throttle! That's perfect!❤
I wonder how hard it would be to drive this stage with a RWD Group B monster ?
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is the ta64 celica in game? i beleive it won the safari one year
@@dalton-at-work No Toyotas other than the current Yaris. Hopefully they rectify that through DLC.
@@tomanderson6335 I hope for Toyota themed DLC
@@tomanderson6335 I can't understand why they're left out when pretty much every other legendary rally car is included in some variation or another.
Hey! My car of choice in group B!
I mainly drive historical (group B, group A, H3 mostly) in DR2.0, and I'm still playing the game regularly today, so I'm kind of looking forward to diving into the modern stuff in WRC, but it's still nice to know that there are improvements to look forward to for the historical stuff as well. I'll probably dive pretty quickly into career, since it has a mix of both.
0:07 LARRY THE TALKING BIRD?!?!
And Jimmy continues his years-long tradition of never driving Lancias everytime he tries a rally game :pepehands:
This game is damned impressive, but i hope they'll add or have added an option for increased damage. It seems a touch forgiving.
There is a “hardcore damage” setting but not sure how hardcore it actually is, haven’t seen any videos on it yet
0:33 That colin mcrae rally 2 soundtrack took me 20 years back. Best WRC game ever.
9:58 "Now, oversteer is better because you dont see the tree that kills you" - Richard Hammond
BTW you should drive the S4 next time, it would be hella fun to see you driving that stupidly insane car.
The rollcage commentary hit hard. Too soon, man... Henri Toivonen, we still miss you.
Videos of the original Dirt Rally group B in this channel were what got me into sim racing years ago lol
The more WRC content, the battery Jimmer, we love this!
i learned to fear this car when i looked down in dirt rally and saw the boost gauge pegged at 3 bar
9:15-9:19 convinced me. There you can see, how the topology of the surface really is there. You can see, how the car wants to drift sideways, but it is thrown into another direction by drifting through the hill.
That could become very interesting for driving. Now you can't just drift around every corner and drive as you usually do, like on almost flat surfaces in the past with maybe a few simulated few bumps that don't affect you and a lot of optics only. Now, you really have to learn how to work WITH the terrain, instead of against it. By looking, by waiting for those bumps and troughs, and steering, using them in a right way, to transfer your weight, so that you can control the direction of your car.
Or at 9:27: The pothole is mean! And really well done in terms how it bangs, and really slows you down.
PS: I specifically analyzed frame for frame. You really can see, how the car falls into the hole, but the speed is still the same. Then it travels the distance in the hole, and then it hits the other side. Ok, the speed is reduced from 50 to 33 in 1 frame, but you can definitely see the stark slowdown effect.
PPS: On EA Sports WRC website, or if you type in the TH-cam video ID 4JrEzcLEZkE, you can see unobstructed scenes from the game. I typically like the hood view, and it looks good!
10:02 co driver is also driving, very talented man!
What i think ruins a bit the replay system is how the camera is fully locked onto the vehicle, it looks like a 2000's game just for that reason i think , because otherwise in the dashboard cam or when the camera is still in cinematic replays the game looks insanely good. But when chasing the car it looks like a game again. Did codemasters miss this?
Have to remember it is still in beta the version Jimmy is playing and replays etc are normally one of if not the last thing dev's work on. I can't believe I'm defending codemasters/EA on this as I truly don't like them but this game does look like it's going to be good
Older Colin McRae Rally games (2000's like you say) all had cockpit cam that shake with g forces....
But I think there might be a setting somewhere to turn it on. It was permanently on in the older games.
Whoever decided to add in the COD: World at War music near the end of the stage is a legend. Pure nostalgia
You know Jimmer likes a game when he makes a second video on it
Also Group B for the win
Or he knows he's going to get more views because people want to see how the game is...
@@LegendaryNuggets also true
I think he has a contract, last video ended with him saying he needs to record two more of them which means there should be one more coming
@@LegendaryNuggetsi mean, it's the new rally game it's granted views regardless, but the reception from the real enthusiasts has been honestly positive and i think that he does legitmently enjoy it.
in the first video on this pre release build he said there'd be a total of 3, seems like he has some sort of agreement with Codies-EA.
Would love to know how this feels on a wheel Jimmer! Don't know if youre allowed to talk about it yet. You seem to be enjoying it, but would love to know specifics about how it feels with ffb and everything.
It's interesting, it feels like anti-lag killed the turbo lag, but now the turbocharged Rally1 cars are getting something similar in the form of the hybrid boost! Unlike the WRC cars which didn't have either (the turbo lag or the hybrid boost). So I guess we could say the hybrid boost is the current equivalent of turbo lag, at least in terms of catching you by surprise (that is if it works just like in the game, when the boost is activated as soon as you reach a certain percentage of throttle input after it was recharged). Of course, the delay or the power difference aren't as big as with turbo lag in Group B cars, but if it really works like in the game, then drivers could perhaps be caught out by a higher amount of power under their gas pedal (I think Gus Greensmith had a crash last year when that caught him out in one corner, in Spain I believe). Or it may be just my drunk babbling, if so, then please ignore it :D
Either way, thanks for making this video with my favorite Group B car. We had a Peugeot 309 for most of my childhood, it was the car in which my parents brought me home from hospital after I was born, and I fell in love with 80s Peugeots because of it (some of our neighbours also had 205s). I discovered this car in Gran Turismo 4 and loved it ever since!
Can't wait to drive it in the game (but sadly, school has to be the priority now, as I'm graduating in the spring, so I guess I'm gonna wait until then). Just too bad I don't have a shifter to go with my wheel. But I'm sure it's gonna be a blast either way!
this game seems like it catches the feeling of speed much better than Dirt Rally 2.0, that little Peugeot seemed genuinely scary
Cant imagine how slippery Jimmy's wheel must be after that 20 minute stage
Jimmy: "That looks like a tree in the rear view"
Tree: "I am the spirit of the rebel tr.. Hey, where you going"?!
10:00 In lieu of a local Rally Buddha, we have Rebel Tree's Kenyan cousin saving Jimmer from a grisly fate
The view distance on some of the stages in this game look breath taking.
This game is incredible, please don't listen to haters because the fun factor here is awesome.
Please don't mess things up in the future Codemasters, you have gotten so many things right with the feel, immersion and sound in this game. If you listen to haters you might just tweak something that doesn't need tweaking. A problem I see in many games lately.
Thank you Codemaster, I have a great time in this game.
Nice seeing you enjoy it also Jimmy.
great video- i once had a chance to drive one of these IRL for a couple of KM on a tarmac airstrip... i didn't want to do any more, So scary and savage. i also drove a tesla plaid. Tesla may have been faster. But this thing was like going for a walk with a tiger on a leash ( it may just decide to kill you for shits and giggles ) . I will defo get it - but wait for VR
Thanks for sharing, love the way you describe it ahahah!
Dude! This looks so fun. Sim or not I wanna have a go at this!
Im gonna be playing this with a gamepad, I've found rally simcades much more enjoyable since I stopped trying to make them as realistic as possible. Sheer fun is what I want these days and I can't wait :)
The poster car for Group B was the Audi Quattro S1, a little heavy, a handful to drive, (much harder than that toycar you are driving) and an absolute beast of a machine. but much better balance,
Whoa! Going full on old school with the clutch and 5spd on this super long stage, getting an actual workout 😅
The Group B drivers had to be completely insane but I loved to watch them drive. I’m surprised those Group B cars could carry the weight of the drivers balls because you had to have huge balls to drive as fast as they did on some of those courses.
Listen, that 205 has always been my favourite car when I was a little whipper snapper what a pleasure to see you send my baby through the fresh plains of Hell
4:01 gave me a laugh, you're selling me on this game, I might need a new wheel...
game does still have a bit of that dirt rally 2 phantom force, where it feels like the car has sort of unnatural trajectories when swinging over a bump once the speed picks up.
Serious question here; Jimmer is an Englander. He drives right-hand drive cars every day with the shifter on his left - yet his sim rig has the shifter on his right. Why is this?
Some of his racecars he drives are left-hand drive and so him practicing in the rig with it like that does help.
Plus, it is possible to be used to both.
I'm British and I do the same when gaming TBH, never really thought about it - good question! I think the majority of my time for the last few years has been vintage Italian and American cars in Asset to Corsa so they've made sense but that's not really an answer!
@@smallbutdeadly931 Do the majority of race cars with stick transmissions (a rarity I am sure nowadays) have the shifter on the right?
I'm Irish but i still have my shifter with my right hand. Prefer shifting with my right hand and its more immersive as most cars in sims are LHD.
@@dodge33cymru I am sure we have all wondered how we would do at Top Gear’s Dunsfold track, and when I do think about this I wonder how much the left-hand shifter would affect my times. I have a feeling it would be just strange enough to cause real concern for me.
13:10 dirt rally 1.0 BGM 👌👌👌
My fav is Audi Sport quattro, but as you said all Group-B cars are great.
The best sounding car.
really good to hear that you like it....after wrc generations i was really unsure about the new one
This game looks and sounds fantastic
the folks that made the older wrc games lost the license to EA and Codemasters, so functionally this is Dirt Rally 3.0
forget every other WRC game. This is dirt rally.
@@sombrero4316For a year, when it will be replaced with the same game with a different number.
WRC9 was awesome. After that the handling went⬇️
The 205 T16 evo 2 could output 550 BHP but it was more like 400 to 450 BHP for the sake of not burning the enigne up. In those days the Rally events were marathons unlike todays more sprint like events. For the Safari the Cars were detuned and fitted with extra armored under trays and bash plates to take on the challenging enviroment. Group B was a mixed bag of cutting edge tech in the Engine and Turbo and some of the electronics mixed with thrown together 4WD drive systems with Braking systems not upto the job and single rate suspension that was still in the older Group 4 erea. Tyres were another tech that lacked it was not unknown that these cars stripped the treads off way before they completed the stages so managing tyres was very important over going flatout. The classic example being the 1985 Sanremo Rally which saw a huge battle between the then New Audi Quattro S1 Evo 2 winged monster Piloted by Driving legend Walter Röhrl and the all winning 205 T16 Evo 1 Röhl gave a master class in fast driving on that multi day event setting a pace so high that the 205 T16's stripped their tyres bare. Röhrl also said if you had time to think driving a Group B car you would be dead there was no time to think. It is hard for those who did not grow up during the 70's and first half of the 80's just what a challeng Rallying was multi day events lasting upto five days .with stages spaning day and nights .with very limited rest times no central services.this was fine with the Group 4 mostly 2 WD cars with upto 275 bhp . But it quickly became dangerous when Group B arrived from 1983 forwards . It was then only a matter of time before something major happened. These cars changed the landscape of Rallying forever . I miss the old marathon events like the Lombard RAC were I got to see my first live rallycars it was a challenge trying to get from one stage to another just to glims a rally car for a few seconds on a stage .being over taken by full blown rally cars while trying to make the next stage underways or having your local Petrol Station been taken over by the works Audi team or Lancia to do between stag service's if only Smart phones had been around then. All is such a long time ago now and they have become myths just like the Silver Arrows were back in the late 30's for GP racing .
As far as the physics, does it feel more like DR2, or closer to something like WRC Generations?
Nice to see someone posting a less than perfect drive. Looked like a blast!!
Co-driver: rock inside
Jimmy: I did not hear a "don't cut", so guess what I will do
I often purchase a rally game on your review/test of the game prior to release. I think I will finally be getting a rally game for the first time in a ling time
Also which team should i join either Lancia or ford please?
It would have been fun to have the toyota celica group b car in this game seeing as they finally have the safari rally which was kinda its home lmao
nothing beats a saturday afternoon doing high speed sight seeing on a living room tv. in HD. :D
good afternnon jimmer. loving the content :)
Damn they nailed the sound of the 205
hey jimmy loved the video, always bring a smile on my face. i was wondering if you could go to rally scandia(norway next if you are allowed to, or finnland cuz it is pretty damn fast.
"i was just having crash the entire time there and just didn't hit anything" definition of my rally skills fastest laps
If you want to properly do a hand brake turn irl with awd you push the clutch in and pull the hand brake. I’m not sure how the modern ones work but that’s what you have to do for older normal cars.
Older group B didn't have a handbrake to disconnect the differential actually so IRL you wouldn't use it as you do with a modern car.
Looks like Fun. Perhaps Black Falcons, you and the boys should try a Rallye-Cross Event at the Nürburgring
Looking forward to getting my copy of this on release day. A friend of mine has had the opportunity to be hands on with this since at least this time last year, and has had nothing but good things to say about it. Sure, it isn't a sim, but it's still a damn good game, and I'm finally going to have a good reason to hook up my H-Pattern shifter on my rig :D
This car was the pinnacle of the Group B era. When I think of Group B, I think of the 205 T16.
I can't wait for this to get the VR patch.
All I got is a gamepad but I think I might enjoy this one. Wondering if it will have any multiplayer full rally events like you've done in RBR? I think it's super cool how those events change how ppl drive to preserve the car through an entire event with really high stakes if a crash happens.
Group B Lancia Delta S4. aka the Widowmaker. Most dangerous group b ever. Need to be like ballet driving those monsters. Counter Steering, correct gear in turns, jumps, and bumps. I miss Dirt games, racing online with friends.
The poor peugeot at the end turned into like an Mx5
I hope they sort that vegetation pop in on the replays for the actual release code
Remember that sim rig with inflatable harness to simulate G forces?
Think it could cope with this?
The detail in the road is insane! Hats freaking off to Codies.
I love how there's actually a decision to be made here. Gun it and sacrifice bits of your car but hopefully make up time, or keep it at 60% and survive. This is what the Safari is about
what detail? 30 km just the same shit hairpin turns rocks and trees thats it
That's safari for you @@heisenberg3206
@@heisenberg3206They're probably referring to the actual road surface detail, dog
@@heisenberg3206Yeah... The more I watch of these previews the more disappointed I get at the road detail, road surrounding, and general visual aspects.
just the sheer skill of this man.... id end up in turkey after that first hairpin
Pedal cam says enough. Great video.
Genuinely cant wait to try this really like the look of the road detail looks bumpy as it should cant wait!
Does this game have proper triple screen support? FOV, seating position, screen angle adjustment etc?
It doesn't yet, I would expect them to work on it post launch as there's been a lot of requests
@@dodge33cymru 🤦 I'll pass then for now. Played the last dirt for about a day before I decided it was toss on triple screen.
It always amazes me that there were real people who raced this rockets in the 80s.
it touches my heart to hear the guy drive at my country kenya
It needs the “bobble head” movement you get for onboards in GT7. It looks so odd being in a rally car, and the drivers point of view doesn’t move with the bumps on the road surface etc.
Do we get play this 3 days early access?
For anyone wondering, the song in the first 5 seconds is "Mein Teil" by Rammstein.
Awesome video as always. Has it got proper triple screen support?
Now this is a proper rally game 🔥🔥🔥
Minor detail, but the dust clouds in this game look *so good.*
What about the ones in the rear view mirror? Oh wait, those are invisible.
10:09 use II gear before curve and if You want hand brake turns keep same time clutch down and but all ready II gear on. to get faster after curve go !
god this looks so fun cant wait
Jimmy, you have to chewing on a croissant while driving a a french car. GET WITH IT MAN!
Game seems like an upgraded Dirt rally . I'm happy about that.
Great video as always thanks Jimmy!
I want beamng damage model on a game like this!!!!! I still bought the game anyway
don't think i'd be good at this, but watching you do it is probably more entertaining! :) thank you for that :)