Pedros93

Rush Rally 3 is a excellent car game but unfortunately a mediocre Rally game. Disclaimer, i know this is a mobile port, but I'll review as a switch game. Rush Rally 3 excellent at being a car game: -The work made by this single developer is astonishing! the amount of content for a 15€, 1 dev game makes many AAA games to shame, even outside of the little Switch. There's a few game modes, from the championship that restricts car classes and has a very nice progression because of that, to the more traditional modes to expect like Single Rally and Single Track (stage). BUT! that's not all, there's also a Rally Cross mode(Circuit racing against AI in a more mixed type terrain track) and the "Skill Games" a mode with various challenges like going from point A to B with traffic for example and of course Multiplayer. -The car list, while not official cars, they all resemble the inspiration quite well and the models overall look pretty good, nicely detailed. - Car handling its in that magical spot of just arcade enough for not requiring much setup but "realistic" enough to not be brain dead. It's a sweet spot that i enjoy a lot, and thanks to the lack of analog triggers on the Switch it plays to this game favor - There's both visual and performance tuning, while the visual tuning apart from rim selection (very nice selection i may add) is the typical color swaps and what not, there's also a livery editor, yes a livery editor in a 15€, 1 dev game!!!. While not by any means the most advanced or "complete" editor, it does his job well to create unique looking cars. Regarding the Performance tuning, the system here is similar to other games like for example Forza Motorsport series, every part gives both a up in performance and the car "Class" rating, some events requires for the player to balance those two. -You can't buy a car more than one time, fortunately with the livery and tuning saving system you can have multiple liveries / tuning settings per car. - Very robust (best in class on the switch) graphic options, i mean, PC levels of graphic options, running at 60 Fps Rush Rally a mediocre Rally game: Unfortunately there's two parts at really hinders the rally aspect, one more than the other: -First is the mechanical damage system, for a game that gives you information about everything it lacks any explanation how this system work. Yes if you crash against a tree wheels will fly off, everything good there, but it's the mechanical damage over time that it's poorly executed, Tires get worse by just driving, if you drift or not, makes no difference. If I'm gonna loose tire "%" anyway, there's no reason to drive more conservatively. Same for the engine and gear box, I'm still trying to figure out how those two get damage, in one car i get both at red (barely working) after 2 stages with perfect handling, on another car, both stays green (working perfectly) after the same 2 stages. Then there's the "fix" screen... after 2 stages your tires are at 100% done...meaning you'll always spend most of the repair time on the wheels, making the rest run poorly. Either this system needs a complete overhaul or just remove it (i would love the 1º option thought). A now the worse part of this game, i would ignore the first problem if this one wasn't so bad. -First i want to actually say the system implemented here for saving both space and hardware resources is very cleaver. But at the end of the road it makes every stage look like a color swap from one and another, racing in Finland and going to Kenya is just a color swap, everything looks the same. To be honest i think this game only have four corners, 5 left/right, 3 left/right, square left/right and thigh turn left/right, that's it, you'll do the same corner multiple times in the same stage. Making it worse is, since everything looks the same, you'll struggle sometimes to see wheres the turn. The amount of countries is nothing more than the same four corners with different colors / trees. Conclusion: The amount of car / game customization is top notch, better than many AAA games. Car selection, while fictitious, are all inspired in rally legends and so far all a blast to drive. Unfortunately the problem is where the cars drive, the stages are extremely bland, nothing really stands out. If the dev gave more attention to the stages in making them more unique and technical instead of the "skill games" or even Rally Cross, Rush Rally 3 could've been one of the best rally games to date. Still, It's the best rally game on the Switch Lets hope the steam release comes with workshop compatibility, i can see this game becoming a modding heaven, and with user created stages, RR3 could very well be the perfect non sim Rally game