WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship

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WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship
WRC 3 FIA World Rally Championship Cover.jpg
Cover art featuring a Mini Cooper.
Developer(s) Milestone srl
Publisher(s)
Series World Rally Championship
Platform(s) PlayStation 3
PlayStation Vita
Microsoft Windows
Xbox 360
OnLive
Release
  • EU: 12 October 2012 [1]
  • AU: 13 December 2012 (PS3, X360)
  • JP: 31 January 2013 (PS3, Vita)
  • NA: 26 March 2013 (PS3, Vita)
  • NA: 23 April 2013 (PC)
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer

WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship (also known as WRC 3, WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship 3 and 2012 FIA World Rally Championship) is the official racing video game of the 2012 World Rally Championship season. It was developed by Milestone srl.

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Reception

The game received "mixed or average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] [3] [4] The PlayStation 3 version got to number 14 in the UK sales charts. [16] In Japan, where the game was ported and published by CyberFront on 31 January 2013, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight and three sevens for the PS3 version, and all four sevens for the Vita version. [6]

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