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It's not a whole lot, but you can feel this in the game and it adds a whole new thing to think about while driving. Packed dirt or snow is better for accelerating as you don't lose so much to the wheels spinning and kicking out debris. Aside from affecting steering, they affect your ability to get a good grip on the road. This could be chalked up as a gimmick and it would be hard to argue much against it if the deformed tracks didn't affect the race so much. On controllers with vibration, you can feel the car moving in and out of the ruts. Without vibration on PS3, you can't feel the difference as much, but you will notice your car jostle about visually. It's not just about looks, the geometry of the course is changing. The result is tire treads and skid marks physically manifesting themselves in the dirt or snow.

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As you zip around the dirt and mud filled courses, your tires actually tear up a scaled 12-inch mesh that sits on top of the course.

Would it have killed the developers to mix it up a bit? Let's not forget about the GeoDeformation. And there's no qualifying, so every time you start a race you'll start in last and have to work your way up to the front as the AI zips out to an early lead. Every one of these championships is a set of three of the courses with a three lap race. And since you can't look up the stats on them, one is as good as the next if you don't have a favorite manufacturer. The cars in each of the three classes all handle fairly similarly, too. One just has the turns in a different spot. There isn't much to differentiate Safari 1 from Safari 3.

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The series of fake rallies you take part in are just a reordering of the same tracks over and over while the difficulty and speed of the cars you're in goes up. But this game was made for the home audience that presumably will be playing this game for a long time to come. 15 tracks across five environments and 30 or so cars would be a great number for an arcade game and the track design is good enough that there aren't any stinkers in the bunch. This makes the championship mode, the one you'll have to play to unlock cars, new liveries, and even the reverse tracks, a bit too repetitive for its own good. But then there are only three tracks in each area (six if you cheat and count the courses reversed as a separate track). This provides a nice range of slippery surfaces including ice, snow, mud, puddles, and packed dirt. There are just five areas to race in, ranging from the muddy tropics to the icy north.

Poor Shadow, even on a car he isn't cool. It's an arcade game, but this isn't an arcade. But this need to perfect your precision controls and memorize the turns also highlights something about the game that doesn't exactly help its longevity.

But once you get the hang of letting up on the gas (we prefer to ignore the brake entirely), turning, and then slamming onto the acceleration to start the slide, you start to realize just how much control you can have if you put the time in to learn the handling. The visual queues aren't always a cinch to recognize as the track often blends into the surrounds quite well. Sometimes it is hard to tell where the track ends and the unforgiving barrier on the edge begins. As an aside, those invisible walls are seriously frustrating for beginners. Beginners, in fact, will likely find themselves sliding back and forth from one invisible wall to another. SEGA Rally Revo does have a steep learning curve. This allows for some great arcade handling, an area where this game does not disappoint. Rally Revo uses a central pivot to rotate the car around as a control mechanism which is fairly standard as far as rally games go. And, well, sliding around corners is cool. The game essentially boils down to an exercise in powersliding around turns properly. The success in Rally Revo comes in the fact that the game is instantly fun and attractive as soon as you hop onto a muddy track.

This game is so focused on the driving itself (some might even call its off-track feature set shallow), that everything outside of the race is streamlined down to just a few choices. Forget about tweaking the weight distribution, trading brake pads, or purchasing new rims to show off your fancy wheels.

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You can swap in some pre-made liveries and choose between a manual or automatic transmission for any of the 30 some-odd cars, but victory and visual flair are derived entirely from your skills at the wheel. Customizing your ride goes as deep as picking off-road or road tires, one more suited for controlled powerslides while the other provides better acceleration and top speed. SEGA Rally Revo is rally racing stripped down to its purest arcade form.

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