ive always been a great fan of rally games on the PS2. WRC4 was the best one i had so far (after playing all the Colin McRays, WRC Extremes and V-Rallies). i heard about the 5th WRC, called Evolved, but also heard (and saw screenshots) of having multiple cars on track at the same time racing eachother. although this is obviously good for the likes of GT, im a firm believer that in rally games its purely you versus the track. however after getting WRC Evolved for peanuts im glad to say that car racing is only online multiplayer or Rally-cross mode - you can still play single-player against the clock :bow:

the co-driver calls are much better, less robotic, and in a reversal of the WRC series, he calls the gear instead of the tightness of the corner (so a 6 is a fast corner and a 1 is a tight corner). the graphics are better than WRC4 :bow: with photographic backgrounds like GT4. the random events are way too cool as well - sometimes you pass crashed rally cars, or a log-carrying trailer will back out on you, or a boulder would fall from a mountainside, or sometimes the guy in front of you has had a gearbox/engine problem and is limping to the line and you have to try and overtake him while fighting for control of the car :bow: :bow: :bow:

you can play the same stage several times and each time it may be slightly different. what a cool game!

you also get points where you can unlock new cars/evolutions of cars/etc.

the only two downsides are that: there are only 3 stages per country (instead of 6 like in WRC4) and each stage is only between 2-4 minutes long (in WRC4 they were 6 minutes or more).

all in all tho this is a cracking game which you can get cheap if you shop around :bow:

Might I recommend Richard Burns Rally? Much more of a sim than any other rally game currently available, but much more rewarding for it.