Moving to Unreal ‘No Easy Undertaking’, Says EA Sports WRC Team
Released last week as a free update for EA Sports WRC, Central European Rally is a very fast-flowing tarmac rally. Debuting just this year in the real-life WRC, the new tri-nation event (co-hosted between Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic) was held in late October, 2023 – and its digital counterpart was still being pieced together at the time of EA Sports WRC’s own launch on October 31.
As an entirely asphalt event, Central European Rally enters the game as one of the trickier rallies players will face – or, at least, certainly those playing on gamepads. EA Sports WRC remains a twitchy mistress for those trying to tame the tarmac via a tiny analogue stick, so make sure to keep your inputs as smooth as possible.
Packed with high-speed sectors – but punctuated with plenty of junctions and harsh kinks to break them up – Central European Rally will reward players who can both keep it pinned when the roads straighten out, and attack the corners without losing too much momentum. With more space on the verges than you get at the likes Monte Carlo or Japan, and even Croatia and Iberia, it’s possible to push the envelope by cutting corners and running considerably wider on exits – but that’s still something you’ll need to do with a decent degree of finesse. This is especially true if you’re running a very firm tarmac set-up; hanging a wheel (or two) off the asphalt in this rally is all well and good considering there’s regularly nothing to run into – but it will definitely bounce you right out of control if you’re not careful.
In positive news, playing on Xbox Series X I only encountered one significant instance of screen tearing in the new Central European Rally stages. This is an issue that was a lot more prevalent around the
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