
The in-car steering wheel animation doesn’t match your inputs. On one Monte Carlo stage, there’s the top of a tree growing in the middle of the road.

I signed for M-Sport Ford in WRC 2, only to have a Škoda branded workshop. One of the in-game tutorial voice-overs plays at the wrong time, causing much confusion.
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Your driver and co-driver have the same head. There’s also just a litany of strange, small, defects too. Some serious balancing is required across the events. You can have a good run and finish 20 seconds off the pace on one stage, only to beat everyone by half a minute driving like a rookie on the next. Your rivals are more erratic than a Kris Meeke rally performance. There’s an extensive upgrade path, effectively identical to the one in last year’s WRC 8, just don’t expect to have the ability to build your own team from the ground up. There’s also a lack of customisation in any form, which has become de rigueur these days, even for officially licensed titles. Thankfully your on-stage performance is a bigger determinant of success.

Or let’s try completing a number of extra events within the next six weeks? Not possible, as the event calendar simply won’t allow you to. How about not using hard tyres for the next two events? Completely pointless. The problems start with the career objectives, which for the most point are stupid. Between all of this are fun events featuring historic cars or extreme conditions to break things up. You can manage your team in terms of vehicle and personnel upgrades, contract offers, objectives and of course, winning rallies. The main focal point is the Career mode, working your way up from Junior WRC, through WRC 3, WRC 2 and finally into the main WRC to fight for the overall world championship.
