V-Rally

V-Rally
V-Rally
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Developer(s) Eden Studios
Publisher(s) Infogrames
Electronic Arts
Platform(s) PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64
Release date(s) July 1997 (PS) (Europe)[1]
September 30, 1997 (PS) (NA)[2]
August 31, 1999 (N64, WIN)[3][4]
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: K-A Kids to Adults


V-Rally (also known as Need for Speed: V-Rally in North America[5]) is a 1997 rally racing video game, developed by Eden Studios for the PlayStation and published by Infogrames. The budget Platinum re-release of the PlayStation version added support for DualShock controllers.

Contents

Symbian UIQ version

There was a Symbian UIQ version designed for mobile phone such as Sony Ericsson P910/P900/P800.

It includes 11 configurable cars, 13 tracks of the 1997 FIA World Rally Championship season.

V-Rally Edition '99

V-Rally Edition '99, a Nintendo 64, PC port of the game, was released in 1999, offering slightly improved graphics and menus. Includes all cars and tracks of the 1998 FIA World Rally Championship.

Game Boy Color version

It includes 20 stages in 10 worldwide locations.

Game play

Unlike other rally games available at the time, such as Colin McRae Rally, V-Rally allowed two players to race directly against one another, rather than against the clock, in a split screen mode.

Tracks

In both games, players can race in 10 locations:

  • Indonesia Indonesia - has seven stages - jungle setting
  • United Kingdom England - has six stages - forest setting
  • Kenya Safari (Kenya) - has six stages - desert setting
  • France Corsica (France) - has six stages - mountain and country setting
  • Spain Spain - has six stages - beach setting
  • New Zealand New Zealand - has seven stages - country setting
  • Monaco French Alps (Monaco) - has seven stages - mountain setting
  • Sweden Sweden - has five stages - snow setting

Cars

The game includes 11 official World Rally Championship cars, with 4 from WRC and 7 from Formula 2 Kit Cars.

They include:

Cars in the V-Rally Edition '99 are the following:

and the Extra Cars are:

References and notes

  1. ^ V-Rally at GameSpot. URL retrieved on August 18, 2006.
  2. ^ Need for Speed: V-Rally at GameSpot. URL retrieved on June 22, 2006.
  3. ^ V-Rally Edition '99 (N64) at GameSpot. URL retrieved on June 22, 2006.
  4. ^ V-Rally Edition '99 (WIN) at GameSpot. URL retrieved on June 22, 2006.
  5. ^ The North American release of the game is tagged with an additional "Need for Speed" prefix after Electronic Arts acquired the rights to publish the game in the United States in order to help sales of the game, due to the fact that rally racing held little support in the U.S.[citation needed] The game was not originally intended to be part of the Need for Speed series; neither the game's development was done by Electronic Arts Canada (which at the time was the primary developer of the Need for Speed series), nor was it developed in as association with Electronic Arts in any way. The Need for Speed prefix was reused for the North American release of V-Rally 2 and dropped in V-Rally 3.

External links

v · d · eNeed for Speed
First era
The Need for Speed (1994) · Need for Speed II (1997) · Hot Pursuit (1998) · High Stakes (1999) · Porsche Unleashed (2000) · Motor City Online (2001) · Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)
Second era
Underground (2003) · Underground 2 (2004) · Most Wanted (2005) · Carbon (2006) · ProStreet (2007) · Undercover (2008)
Third era
Shift (2009) · Nitro (2009) · World (2010) · Hot Pursuit (2010) · Shift 2: Unleashed (2011) · The Run (2011)
Branded
V-Rally (1997) · V-Rally 2 (1999)
Related
Wikipedia book Book:Need for Speed series · Category Category:Need for Speed · Portal Portal:Video games


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