COLIN MCRAE RALLY 3 (PC) IN SOUTH AFRICA

Colin McRae Rally 3 (PC) Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP Condition: New Other versions of this game available from us: Platform: Pre-Owned/Used: Very Good Condition copies available Product Information Authentic high-performance rally cars recreated under license Cars include Mitsubishi Evo 7, Subaru Impreza 44S and Ford Focus RS WRC 56 stages in 8 countries including UK, Australia, Finland and Japan Full environmental graphics Destructible car body with fully operable component parts Drive for the record against your friends in multiplayer rally championship Improved physics and AI bring racers closer to the action Product Description Colin McRae Rally 3 on the PC captures the emotions and consequences of being a professional rally champion. It's an unbelievably personal gaming experience, as you become the globe's greatest rally driver, Colin McRae himself. Colin McRae Rally 3 makes a massive leap in terms of playability, motor sport detail, rich visuals and the perfect rally-car handling the series is renowned for. Above all, it delivers a game that captures every drop of sweat, the 150 decisions a minute and the teamwork that goes into being Colin McRae, who spent three years with Ford Rallye Sport. The main championship game is a gruelling series of races across eight international rallies: Japan, Spain, USA, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Australia and the UK are all included and offer tarmac, gravel, dirt and rain-soaked road surfaces. The championship game puts players through a three-year deal. Like the professionals, you'll compete in the full year and drive in every rally. Fall foul on a stage or damage the Focus beyond immediate repair and you'll be retired from that particular rally without the all-important championship points. The driving seat beckons at the beginning of the next rally, but points will have to be made up to stand a chance of becoming a champion. Review There are rally games and there are rally games--and then there's Colin McRae Rally 3. It's difficult to know where to start with the third instalment of this hugely successful franchise: the eye-wateringly sharp graphics; the intuitive gameplay or the understated, superb commentary and sound. As you'd expect from a top rally sim, everything about the vehicles can be customised, and tinkering under the hood between stages really produces a difference. If you're a bad driver you can also see the difference, as tearing the hood, side panels, or windows out mid-stage reveals an astonishing level of detail within the car. Engine parts move, suspension arms judder, and Mr McRae himself bounces around the car's cockpit in full 3-D. With a variety of gameplay modes ranging from single races to three-season tours of duty as McRae himself, there's plenty of bang for your buck here--and by the time you've cannoned off the scenery for the umpteenth time you'll know what bangs are all about. Thankfully code masters have resisted the temptation to fill Colin McRae Rally 3 with discordant music tracks, relegating the score to intro and menu screens and leaving the in-game sound to codriver commentary and a multitude of engine sounds--a pleasant change in an age where licensed soundtracks are king. The strongest element of this game, though, is the gameplay. The car handling is dead-on and in wild weather (snow, rain and fog) guiding a speeding Ford Focus around sharp bends is a real art form. -- Chris Russell