WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship

Why is driving an afterthought in this game? theres like no driving its like a HR simulator i bought this wanting to do some rally driving.... apparently that isnt this, refunded

Big thanks to KT Racing for controller support and especially the ability to play with a split screen. I bought it mainly for this feature. Thanks for adding it!

Feels so immersive. Loving it!

vroom vroom

WRC 8 is the official rally racing game of the FIA World Rally Championship, featuring realistic driving physics, dynamic weather, and an extensive career mode. Get ready for high-speed rally stages across the toughest terrains in the world!

Gameplay Features
Authentic Rally Experience – Official cars, tracks, and teams from the WRC series.
Dynamic Weather System – Rain, snow, and changing conditions affect your handling.
Deep Career Mode – Manage your team, upgrade your car, and climb the ranks.
Challenging Stages – Conquer narrow roads, dirt tracks, and extreme weather conditions.
Performance on Your Setup
With your RX 7800XT, Ryzen 7 5700X, and 32GB of RAM, WRC 8 runs at 60+ FPS on max settings, delivering smooth and immersive rally racing with no performance issues.

Final Verdict
For rally fans, WRC 8 is a fantastic choice with realistic physics and an engaging career mode. If you love intense, technical racing, this one is a must-play! 🏁🚗

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good

fun realistic-arcady game. lots of fun playing this game. i mean it. its worth it especially if you like rally and have a sim wheel with a shifter

game ini asik dan loncat loncatan mobil nya

running on a steam deck and its fun. setting on med and plays great. if you have a deck and want a great racing game get this. other newer wrc games dont work as of right now so this order title is the way to go. on sale
??? get it!!! full price? ehh wait a week lol

this only works if you have a sister

step 1. buy this game
step 2. play this game on loud speakers
step 3. irritate your sister
step 4. get grounded

definitely worth it

Become the 2019 WRC Champion!

The most complete and authentic official WRC simulation yet. New physics for all surfaces, a completely redesigned career mode, and dynamic weather conditions. Take on the 2019 WRC season with 50 teams, 14 rallies and over 100 special stages. WRC 8 has the deepest content ever included in an off-road racing game.

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[th]About[/th]
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[td]💾Graphics[/td]
[td]This game has seen a pretty remarkable increase in visuals compared to its predecessor. It’s sharp, detailed, and immersive (visually speaking). The only real complaint is the main menu. It’s messy and feels kinda disorganized compared to the other games. Besides that, this game looks incredible! Night rallying is dark and challenging, and the rain/snow effects look amazing. A great improvement![/td]
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[td]🎮Gameplay[/td]
[td]Many improvements are here! First of all, physics is incredible! Like really good. Your car has weight, and weight transfer plays a big role here. Tapping the brake along with the gas pedal helps rotate the car. This is actually pretty accurate if you watch pedal cams on WRC events. It’s really fun to drive these cars, and a massive improvement from WRC 7. Damage model is superb here too. Pushing the car does wear out the engine, suspension, brakes, etc and you really do feel it. It’s not unforgiven, and has a good balance in my opinion. Also tire choice is so important. For example, using soft tires instead of snow tires in Monte Carlo can become a challenging strategy. Feeling the grip difference using soft tires in the snow section felt incredibly realistic. The car was slidy, and you have to drive super cautious in those sections. Probably the most fun I had was racing in Monte Carlo. The tuning system is also great. Now the simple tuning doesn’t give out important info sadly, but if you change to advance tuning, you get all the info you need. Also the stage design is the best so far. Tight stages add that level of challenging that was needed in the WRC titles. You also have long stages, and super stages still. It’s all just good fun. Some issues I had were mainly just the lack of historical cars. There are some in this game, but only a handful. I know they added this mainly just for the campaign, but it could have been so much better. Luckily the newer titles do a much better job.[/td]
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[td]📜Story[/td]
[td]It’s so good to see the introduction of team management in career mode. It added a much needed depth into the game. It’s kinda similar to the newer F1 titles, and does a pretty solid job. You can add new engineers, mechanics, etc. You can even have perks/upgrades, like performance, reliability, team bonus, etc. The calendar events are also fun, although I feel like the training stages are the hardest for some odd reason. The calendar events range from training, historic races, extreme events, and more. No don’t worry, they have a “season” mode that is basically like campaign mode with no team management (if you don’t want to deal with that). Happy to see the campaign mode getting that needed love. [/td]
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[td]🕛Playtime[/td]
[td]The main game can offer up to 17+ hours of playtime. Other game modes are also in the game for you to enjoy. So many more hours are possible, especially if you enjoy the physics and the 2019 WRC season.[/td]
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[td]🎧Sound[/td]
[td]Sound design feels like a step down if I’m gonna be honest. The last games had more raw sound effects and was overall much more immersive. It’s not bad in this game, it just feels weak. The pacenotes do sound good though. Besides that, it’s kinda a miss in my opinion.[/td]
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[td]❗Bugs❗[/td]
[td]I had no serious bugs. Game felt pretty good to play here. Nothing stood out for me to address. You should have a smooth experience as well., so don’t worry about bugs.[/td]
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[td]🔅Performance[/td]
[td]Now performance for me was really good. Always getting 100+ fps on max settings. Obviously my rig is really good since this game is older. If you have a rig that is mid range or near the recommended specs, then do some research, because people say this game is unoptimized.[/td]
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[td]✔️Pro’s[/td]
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• Amazing visuals
  
• Challenging physics
  
• Damage model/tire wear is great
  
• Stages are complex and challenging
  
• Introduction of team management in career mode
  
• Many tuning options with info (when using advance tuning)
  
• Able to play career with or without team management (optional)
  
• Faithful to the 2019 WRC season (in terms of locations, drivers, and cars)
  

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[td]❌Con’s[/td]
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• Menus are confusing
  
• Not many historic cars
  
• Sound design is pretty average
  
• Some calendar events are confusingly hard (training events especially)
  

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[td]🏆Rating[/td]
[td]8/10
I’d say this game is worth the price.[/td]
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[td]🔗Conclusion[/td]
[td]WRC 8 is a fantastic improvement over WRC 7. Overhauled physics and campaign gave this game so much life! It’s fun, challenging, and engaging. Career mode is also super fun. This is one of the more challenging WRC titles, so do keep that in mind. A great pic for rally fans! Enjoy your rallying![/td]
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1004750/WRC_8_FIA_World_Rally_Championship/

Specs for Review:

• GPU: RTX 3080 (Laptop GPU)
  
• CPU: Intel Core i7-11800H 4.6 GHz
  
[*]RAM: 32GB Ram

I wish I could get refunded. I probably died more times (as well as my copilot and some bystanders) in a single race than in thousands of hour of Minecraft, Skyrim, GTA and Counter-Strike COMBINED!! Like what the hell my best time was when I discovered it was faster for me to respawn ever few seconds than to try and drive cars worse than Trackmania! Literally 30+ minutes was my best time!! (on a ~2:10 track) WITH THE RESPAWN TRICK!! And I play on easy mode without damage otherwise my driver would either be dead or in prison for mass manslaughter!
Now you gonna say "well, it's a simulation, not a Need For Speed game where you can just accelerate duhhhh....".
I spent 7 years racing "amateur" rally, so I think my "driving skills" are quite above average of your daily commuter, and yes I know, it's a video game, not the reality; yet their DO call it a simulation, unlike NFS for exemple, which clearly know it's more "arcade".
It's just... I have no words.... This game is utter shit!

I've had 2 different sim rigs and couldn't get the bindings to work on either. Hasn't been any problem with ac, acc, or beam. Hard to recommend when I can't even play the game

It was almost so good. this was almost my favorite so far. enjoyable career overhaul, handling that takes time to learn and becomes fun once you learn it, better overall progression, it was ALL THERE. but whatever genius decided to add a third rally set for the wrc1 league is now my mortal enemy.
I'm not kidding, this game became an unenjoyable slog because every rally in wrc1 takes so LONG now, alongside unfair repair time costs compared to the amount and length of stages in the wrc1 league. (the skill tree does not help, the protection the armor skills provide is marginal at best, and really does nothing to help with the wear of every part) TWO SETS OF ENDURANCE STAGES. 2 OF THEM. WHY. i wasnt the biggest fan of ES stages to begin with but this just
grrrrrrrrrrrrgrggrggrrgrgrgrgrgrrggrgrrggr
I loathe having to play this game now because the mere thought of having to do TWO endurance stages (14km each AT LEAST at medium length rally settings) in ONE RALLY hurts me.
Seriously, I really don't think i can finish this one enjoyably like i did 4-7. sorry, not sorry.

I played WRC 7 and did pretty well in that game for my standards, lots of podium wins and stuff. Let me just say fuck this game to hell. I don't know what happened from WRC 7 to this one but, the car in this is completely uncontrollable and I keep spinning out all the damn time. I tried to adjust steering settings and nothing was helpful. Am playing on controller as I don't have a wheel. If you play on controller, don't buy this game.

Starting out almost right away with a practice loop for familiarization was a great idea, but I have zero interest in managing a company, hiring weather boys, and starting the first actual rally in a storm, at night, in a broken vehicle, and being auto-failed because I did five miles an hour at a hairpin that somehow flipped the vehicle upside down in place. Just play BeamNG if you want to tweak rally cars and race without being a CEO of who-the-hell-cares

Awesome

I wish Steam honestly had a Yes/No/Mixed Option rather than one or the other, as it makes games hard to suggest to people.

To start though, I treat the WRC games as what they are, a 'series'.
Every WRC game since WRC 2 has always varied and had different physics, drive, flow to it, speed, and feel. This has never changed, and has NEVER stayed consistent throughout the series, which is what makes every other WRC interesting.

That said, KT Racing, or Kylotonn didn't make very good WRC games. They're often critiqued as the worst in the series lineup due to how inconsistent they are. Their physics in one game can totally change from vehilcle to weather. They've never been consistent at all...

WRC 8 isn't bad... let's just clear that up from the start.
I think rough around every edge, fast, and weird best describes this game. As it has a really strong layer of arcade, sim, and frantic gameplay to it. You're on the edge at all times trying to manage things.
WRC 8 isn't fast paced like the games of Milestone WRC were. It's a game where you can be extremely fast, though you'll pay a price. Especially if you use a lot of the realistic damage settings, the damage you receive from tumbles, casing a jump too hard, bottoming out, and more do more than they would on something like DiRT Rally. I'd call it very similar to the Sebastien Loeb Really Evo game, where small clunks do weirdly severe damage on its most realistic of modes.

Where WRC 8 gets things wrong though...
Simulation
Management
Task Reliability
Tyre Compound
These elements are poorly done. Very, in fact, they're bad enough to the point of being insufferable.
Simulation Is done decently, to simulate a fantasy WRC Team experience. Though it catches elements where you question why you're trying. As once you've played the game hundreds of times over, or completed objectives, the game throws you objectives that sometimes aren't relevant to races ahead, training experiences that cap out and don't reward you, or recruiting a team member that's lower level just for the prevention of wear and tear on other team members who you already have to serve that objective.

Management is tacked on really... It's an element added on to occupy empty space in the game. Especially in terms of repairing the car, as even if you turn off the realistic damage model, run a very smooth and clean race. The game demands you to spend money to repair something that becomes artificially damaged.

Then there's the team management that just lacks and gaps... Even if I have three Weather Specialists, the game is always demanding I hire another without any given reason. Um, no? I've got enough to rotate through throughout a season, I'm good.

R&D resets. Why wasn't this incorporated? I don't like carrying over R&D from one team to another. It'd make sense that it should reset, as I'm on a new team next season. So why are we doing it this way? It just seems backwards.

Task reliability sucks as well, falling next to the issues I mentioned with simulation, they fall into each other.
If you're someone like me who likes to play a game over and over, you'll play through several seasons to really get full enjoyment out of the game. I don't think this game is prepared for that.

As you get through about 4 seasons, and let's say you choose to stick to JWRC. As you progress through that tier of WRC, you'll be given numerous tasks. Sometimes the game will give you tasks that apply to a previous team you were on and suddenly becomes impossible to complete.
This becomes an issue especially as the teams goals for every season is often times based on the games very generic RNG system. So you can end up with tasks you've already done.

Tyre Compound is a joke... So long as a track isn't wet, you can make any compound work anywhere. Apart from when you get to snowy events, where compound actually seems to matter.
It's a sad system.
Want the key to the meta? Easy.
Soft Gravel
Soft Dry Asphalt
Studded Snow
Done!

If you plan to buy the game, it's fun. It has it's moments. Though the game makes you wonder how good it could've been if more thought, effort, and time were really and truly put into it. Especially given its several missing pieces that only needed a minor patch to fix.

Buy it? Hard call. You've gotta decide if you can deal with the issues.
I'd say only if you can get it dirt cheap.

Good game Vroom Vroom

It's a good game and it's better than WRC 7;
But, It has a saving problem...
To save your progress in career, you should restart the game after finishing each race!
And I know it's weird.

yes

Much better game compared to WRC 7.

godly game.

Very good game, I suggest you to play this masterpiece.

damn! ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

Top-notch WRC game, significant enhancements compared to previous titles, exceptional gameplay and vehicle handling.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341523051

I don't know why you would get this over WRC 9.

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id rather peddle around on a tricycle on the nordschleife than do rally mexico for my career

Terrible force feedback on my g920 and the UI is just insane. Would refund if i could

Car wroom on gravel

The best wrc series i've played

yes

GUT

this game is so retarded. They are putting rocks and walls to blind spots and then it says cut. LIKE WTFFFFF

bought it thinking id like it since i like dirt collection, but mehh not for me

very stinky

good rally game,probably better than wrc generations