WRC Generations review / comparison to EA WRC

I've enjoyed my time with EA WRC but im waiting for them to patch out the major bugs before I continue. Thanks as always for the video!

That 95% sim thought of yours is actually a quite interesting one! Again, you made me rethink certain aspects! 💪 thanks for the video! 👌

Awesome video man glad u got enough donations from us 🙏🏼

Hey mrelwood, I'm new to simracing and EA WRC is my first rally game. You can't imagine how dissapointed I was when I jumped in to try WRC Generations or Dirt Rally. EA WRC just drives almost like a real car compared to those 2 and stages look amazing. I can't understand why poeple are shitting this game so much for graphics. Just play the game. It's much better than it might seem from the first look and whining of youtube/reddit.

Love hearing your opinions! Gotta disagree with what you said about more realism not always being tue answer though. It is a good point and I'm sure most people agree with you but I'm trying to get into real rally racing and hopefully compete and everything in the future so I always think that if I get games like RBR I'll be better prepared. Just my opinion, but I do like playing dirt 2.0 and all of those games for more of a fun time than just "training"

WRC 9 is better than Generations for me, Generations seems to be lacking enviromental sounds and road noise seems far too quiet, 9 doesn't suffer as badly from this problem although the overall sound is still lacking compared to EA WRC. I do prefer 9 to EA WRC however, mainly because I find the stages much more interesting. I haven't tried all of the stages in EA WRC yet but most of the ones I have tried I find quite boring and samey, I tried one of the Croatia stages last night and for 6 minutes it felt like I was driving the same handful of corners over and over again. The stages in KT games are really interesting, memorable, challenging and constantly throw new things at you. Also the sense of speed in WRC 9 feels faster than EA WRC, increasing the excitement of flying around corners and down narrow roads. Once the performance issues and screen tearing have been fixed on EA WRC PS5 i'll put some more time into it but I can't see myself liking it more than WRC 9.

Nice video dude! Your video quality keeps getting better and better. I especially like all the fun graphics you did throughout. Definitely makes the video entertaining for sure! Keep em coming! As far as your review goes, we will have to agree to disagree on some aspects, but I still appreciate your video and honest thoughts. IMHO I think with more time spent in the WRCG game, you could get a better grip on the games handling characteristics, and might change your mind. No offense intended, but based on the clips you showed of you playing WRCG, a lot of what you thought was the game, was actually driver error. Again, no offense intended, but you’re obviously very used to Codemasters games, and like you said, jumping into a different game made by a different developer is going to feel foreign until you figure it out. I do agree with you wholeheartedly on the audio though. It is horrendous in WRCG, and I am loving it in EA WRC. All in all, I like both games, and to be honest, while not perfect, the fun factor in EA WRC is pretty awesome! I am starting to enjoy it more and more everyday. Thanks for making the video man! Definitely enjoyed it, and appreciate it 🤙.

This is a great video man!

I bought this game a few days ago I absolutely love it all bugs are fixed now no more frame drops that joilted you badly, runs perfect had to crank the handbrake up felt like I was grabbing a bag of spanners lol kinda useless so I fixed it ,this is the most realistic rallying sim out the cars perform as they do in real life, just play around with the settings and then hold onto your fillings lol no room for error.

14:40 I think you meant "physics" rather than graphics ;p Great video though RBR has some positives: it runs on weak ass laptops like mine, there are close to 500 tracks, at least half of decent quality, and modding scene is still alive, doing anything to make it a bit more modern. Yet to fully test EA WRC, although everybody is conflicted about the handling engine, with some saying its very arcadish, much more so than DR2, some saying pivot point physics is still alive and well and some say its the second closest to realism. Kylotonn WRC games were shovelware up to like WRC8. Only then they got passable

Would love to see an RBR video! I tried to set it up twice but always ended up with "boat physics", not sure why it was always screwed up. It felt like you needed a PhD just to get the game configured with all the silly patches and sketchy crap you have to download.

I've been off road racing for a little over 10 years now. Not rally but very similar in a lot of ways. we close off open roads and use them as a circuit. We have 13 and we practice them whenever we get the chance, so those hairpin left unseen over crest moments don't happen haha. I will say I'm quite impressed by EA sports WRC. I have a low end racing rig for my computer but even on controller this game is good. The audio specifically, I find myself checking my mirrors sometimes I get so immersed. And you really do need to use proper racing techniques to go fast. I have no idea how to drive a real full blown rally car but they handle how I'd expect them to based on my IRL experience. The only thing holding that game back for me is the performance issues but those are thankfully being fixed! When I played wrc generations I could instantly tell it's meant to be accessible and fun to drive. I personally didn't find it as fun though because I like doing the flashy and tricky maneuvers that are slow but look awesome that I can't really do in real life without effing the car up. all in all try out beamNG. It has really fun tuning and the off roading feels surprisingly good!

great videos. I wish you can compare EA sport WRC with GT7 rally in terms of physics. I feel rally in GT7 is too slippery but don't have much offload experience to judge that.

You pointing out exactly my issues with Generations and previous games. The sound, the boat delayed feel and I also feel they nerfed sense of speed. I just think it was time to leave over the project to EA Codemaster now. The company felt like it lost passion, if sound can't be fixed to perfection in 11 games then they will never be fixed. Otherwise I did like the stages a lot so a shame they never got some things right. Good comparison.

I love your argument about realism and i would add this: we are playing video games not sports. A video game is a piece of art that interperates a real life thing and adapts it into an electronic game. If succesful, you should get the IMPRESSION of competing in the WRC. If realism is your only goal and you manage to be 100% successful, then only real life professionals will be able to play your "game"

I agree, this is the best rally game I ever played. It's incredibly fun, realism or not it's absolute madness while driving and that to me is how I think rally irl is.

Does EAs have the karlstadt special stage?

Cool 🎉🎉

I picked up EA WRC on PS5 on sale last week, and overall I'm pretty happy but there's some weird stuff like placeholder textures that appear all over the course sometimes. But yeah, the overall driving model feels more forgiving and fun than Generations.

I don't know man lack of proper collision detection, car barely gets mud on it, environments look sterile and pop in like its a ps 1 game are really big immersion killers for a racing game and ea wrc all lack in this.