Playing as McRae (and assisted by his co-driver Nicky Grist), you take his signature Ford Focus throughout over one hundred real-world courses in eighteen countries, to win the World Rally Championship. The game's primary mode (Championship) takes that note and runs with it. You are Colin McRae - simulation of the very mindset. It absolutely demands your complete and total focus for every race, pursuing the very best you can achieve each time, and requiring the utmost concentration to tackle every forthcoming turn or corner. CMR3 immerses you like very few games in the genre can claim to. In living up to the high standard previously set by itself, it succeeds wholeheartedly. Like previous entries in the series, the goal of the game is simply to create the most realistic and intense rally racing simulation available.

It was heralded for its true-to-life gameplay and control, and now just two years later, the series has made it's first mark into the next-gen, coming into it's third iteration with Colin McRae Rally 3. Only about a year-and-a-half after Gran Turismo came out and proved that recreating the realistic driving experience could not only bring unprecedented success to the genre, but also be a whole lot of fun, a little known publisher by the name of Codemasters introduced one of the first realistic simulations of rally-style racing, dubbed Colin McRae Rally. Developer: Codemasters | Publisher: Codemasters

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