Rally Championship (video game)

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Rally Championship
Racing Championship.jpg
PlayStation 2 cover art
Developer(s) Warthog
Publisher(s)
Series Rally Championship
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, GameCube
ReleasePlayStation 2
  • PAL: May 31, 2002
GameCube
  • PAL: February 7, 2003
  • NA: July 30, 2003
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Rally Championship is a rally video game. It was released for PlayStation 2 in 2002 and GameCube in 2003. It is developed by Warthog Games and published by SCi. It is the last game in the Rally Championship series. The game is a sequel to the 2001 game Rally Championship Xtreme . It is the first game in the series not published by Europress and the first game not released on the PC.

Contents

There are 6 different locations (Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, United States, the Arctic and Kenya), with 4 tracks for each location.

Reception

The GameCube version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] Nintendo Power gave the European import a mixed review while the U.S. version was still in development. [12] GameSpy called the GameCube version "solid", but said that it could not compete against stronger competition like Colin McRae , particularly in the graphics. [8] In Japan, where the PlayStation 2 version was ported and published by Success on March 27, 2003, Famitsu gave it a score of 29 out of 40. [4]

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