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Could be better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked it, but it doesn't compare to the Colin Mc Rae's saga.
Graphics should be a little better. When you start playing, it's hard to
control the cars.

Fun but Flawed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

V-rally 3 is a very good game with all of the real rally cars and real time damage.It is very realistic with changing weather and making sure you choose the right tyres and things like that. If you drive well you get offers from different teams but before you drive for them you have to pass a test.
V-Rally 3 has it's flaws as well. At some stages you would slide slowly against something slanted and then go flying into the air and some other smaller glitches that don't really affect the gameplay.Overall V-Rally 3 is still fun to play

Bit of a Let Down after V-Rally 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, it looks great, its fun to play, and its worth the time and money. However its not quite perfect. A lot of the features that made V-Rally 2 so great are totally absent this time around. There is no track editor (best part of the previous game), no arcade mode, and apparently no way for 2 players to race against each other at the same time, and most importantly there are no where near as many stages.

Graphically, mud doesn't really look like mud, dry sandy roads don't look like dry sandy roads, etc. Any kind of dirt road looks and feels about the same.

In terms of sound the game is a bit of a disappointment. There is no actual background soundtrack as in many other racing games. Your choices are: navigator's speech, road noise, or a bit of both. After a while none of these options are terribly appealing. I really missed the nice background techno of VR2.

Without an impressive list of features this game ends up feeling just about the same thing as World Rally Championship, which had much nicer presentation due to the official license and a great deal more courses to race. Either WRC or V-Rally 3 are good solid games for the PS2 but neither comes close to the completeness of V-Rally 2 for the PS1.

If you never played any of the previous games in the series you'll be quite happy with this one, but if you have, you quickly notice that it just feels like something important is missing and thats really too bad because this game could have, and should have, been amazing.

Big disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, I bought this game as a stop gap while I salivate for Colin McRae 3 (due out late November) and WRC II Extreme (no release date yet). The gameplay is not horrible, but certainly nothing to be impressed by. The graphics are very sub-par for the stage at which PS2 games are being developed these days, and there is noticeable frame rate slowdown!! That last one is totally unacceptable. WRC is a much better Rally game, albeit it has many flaws of its own.
Steer clear of this game, wait for CMR3 or WRC2... both will be much, much better and you will likely never play this game again once you have one of those two to play. Save your $$.

nice graphics no sega rally

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

first off no music! boring! second no jumps to get airborne. well some jumps but hardly anything to make u hold on to the controller like your actually steering a real car.I wanna hit start and race period.fine tunning come on...... emails ???? why do i need emails in a race game .the cars oversteer they dont bounce like they have shocks. will someone please tell me are there any rally games with correct physics like a real car . you know when a car goes over a bump the rear of the car goes up and down! is this a hard thing to program? rent this first. any recomendations that can top sega rally?

much of a letdown

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: November 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Racing fanatics should keep away from this one. On any scale, fun factor = 0 (no other cars on the track to race against); graphics = 0 (nobody expected GT3 quality, but this is a total cutout city); ingenuity = 0 (6 locations equals 6 tracks essentially, 5 of which are Europe - not a lot of difference between them - and 1 uninspired Africa track. ... Even V-Rally 1 was a better looking game, it had Indonesia and New Zealand tracks, fer cryin' outloud, and that was 4 years ago on PS One). While there is a tortured attempt to create some sort of a customization system, the changes you make usually don't mean jack when you get to the racing. At least the control is a step in the right direction, ....

Rally Good Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I gotta tell ya, I've played some good rally games before, but this most fun I've had playing a rallying video game and I'm more than happy to tell you how addictive V-Rally 3 is. Once you start playing, you know you'll never stop, so let the rallyist in you out of its cage! In V-Rally Mode, you don't compete in championship rallies, you live and breathe rally racing. It s just so immersive.And the car variety is first-rate. In my V-Rally Mode, I'm in my 8th season, have 26 victories and six titles, three in the 1.6L FWD category with Volkswagen Racing and three in the 2.0L 4WD category with Subaru World Rally Team, whose cars carry the Subaru Rally Team USA name and paintjob. All my titles have been three-peats. I own World Rally Championship and enjoy it. I just needed a new challenge and to race as myself. And V-Rally 3 provides just that. As far as downs ar econcerned, I can only think of a few. First, realistic length special stages would do some good esp. to V-Rally Mode. A real life stage averages 15-35 miles. Finland's 1000 Lakes Rally has stages less than 10 miles long, while the recently dropped (by the WRC) Safari Rally Kenya has stages of at least 45 miles in length. One of them is 66 miles long! Oh, and don't forget the super special stages, which are two lap head-to-head races held on specifically constructed dual circuits, kinda like a mini NASCAR race, like those found in V-Rally 2 and WRC. Second, a real (WRC, for example) rally has about 15-20 stages, while the game has only 5. The Safari Rally has about 12 stages, while the 1000 Lakes Rally has about 26. Individual team testing stages would be a cool addition as well. Third, in the game, when you create a driver, its a real bummer that you can't create your co-driver's profile, with features name, nationality and looks.. The driver looks menu needs more options, too. These ideas would certainly work great perhapsin future V-Rally games. But despite all that, V-Rally 3 is one ultra-strong rally racer that's certainly worth a try. I'm going after my seventh V-Rally championship and I still get a huge rush of adrenaline every time the starting lights go out. All those who agree, play this game. Drivers: put on your driving suit, helmet and gloves, tighten your multi-point seat belts and fire up the engine. Co-drivers, get your pace notes ready, tighten your multi-point seat belts and make sure that your voice box is ready to read those pace notes and get your driver safely through the stages. V-Rally 3 Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A fun game, but has a few rough edges.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Let me just say that rallying is a sport that is overlooked here in the US in comprision to the other more well known racing associations like nascar, indy and to a lesser extent f1. What I really enjoy about this game is the fact that you DO NOT just jump in and join a big team like subaru, ford, peugeot and so on. YOu actually have to prove that you are able to work your way up and basically make your own career. I like this challenge and I also own WRC for ps2 and also plan to get Colin McRae as well. This game although it isn't lisensed by the WRC (world rally championship) it is fun nether the less. The four player multiplayer option can be decieving, were you each race one at a time and try to bet eachothers time. It can get pretty intense if everyone is racing at the same level. In terms of imporements, my biggest complaint is the sound. I have watched WRC for a couple of years now and I know what each car does and does not sound like. They all sound exactly the same, and should they make a sequel, that should really be added. I do wish they made the seasons a lot longer so more tracks would always be welcomed as well. Peope have mentioned that well, the pace notes aren't always perfect, and yes it is frustrating if you are in a tight points for the crown, the navigator is off you take a corner tight when you should have went outside, clip a rock and totally jack up your car. I like to think of it as, well they make mistakes and its just part of the sport and you have to know when to listen to the co-driver and just go with what your eyes tell you. So in the end, for someone like me who would be very bias to any rally game like this, I feel that it is a great game that may need to be polished in a few areas, but is still tons of fun. The biggest factor is how much you like rallying to overlook some of the few down complaints that people have. So why don't you rent of borrow it from a friend to figure out that this one is for you before you buy it!

Great rally racing game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I pretty much dominated this game with three separate rally vehicles. It does not take a long time to get used to the controls in this game. It's easy and a whole lot of fun. The only problem I had with this game is the limited tracks. I believe it has less than 10 different tracks, but you race forward and backwards on the tracks. The race can be difficult when the weather turns south. Not because it is difficult to control, I believe that it is even more fun to race in the rain... the problem is the color. I am not sure if my tv is not sharp enough, because the direction of the road and the surrounding environment sometimes blends together... confusing me as to where I should go.

All else said, I LOVE to drift in this game. Highly recommended if you love to drift in the snow......

Flawed, but fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big WRC fan, so naturally, I was excited about this game. I got it off of eBay for about 22 bucks, not a bad deal.

Gameplay - Damn fun. the Career mode is great, because you get e-mails from various teams, wanting you to test drive for them. If you get good times with their test car, they'll offer you a position on their team right on the spot, or sometime in the future. As you get better, other teams with better cars will offer you a test drive as well. Though, the better the team, the more big their demands (i.e., a poor team will want you to finish at least 12th, while a top team will demand that you win the championship). Another cool thing about the gameplay is that you move up from 1.6 FF cars to 2.0 4WD cars. I thought this game was as easy as "WRC", but when I moved onto the 4WD cars, I realized that careful but quick driving needs to be used.

Control - Not bad, but there needs to be more customization. I've been playing the Gran Turismo series for about 5 years now, ever since the first one came out. I'm completely used to using the right analog stick for acceleration and braking. I can't use it in this game, so using the X button is awkward and hurts my thumb. Otherwise, it's fine. I should be getting the Force Feedback wheel soon though.

Sound - Good, but not as realistic as "WRC". in "WRC", the Peugeot's exhaust note, even at idle, sounds exactly like when I see it on the Speed channel. It's still pretty good in this game though.

Physics - Very good, as realistic as I'd think a WRC car would be.

Fun factor - fairly high, but not if you prefer to race wheel-to-wheel. That's not what rally racing is about.

The biggest flaw in "V-Rally 3", and it's a big one, are the PACE NOTES! The co-driver is horrible! The pace notes are undetailed, slow, and inconsistent. For example, sometimes he doesn't even mention a water splash, and other times he does. Other times, he tells me "caution, cliff!" as I'm flying off of the cliff. I crashed off of the same cliff twice in two seperate championships with two different cars because the damn co-driver doesn't warn me about cliffs. I never realized until now how PERFECT the pace notes are in "Colin McRae 2.0". THOSE are some damn good pace notes. In "V-Rally 3", either I'm in the middle of a 2-left, and the co-driver THEN tells me "2-left", or I'm on a straightaway and the co-driver says "3-right", even though it's not for another 250 meters.

All in all, it's a good game, I don't regret buying it. If you're a fan of rally racing, you should definitely buy this. There are some flaws which should definitely be tweaked if there is a sequel. The pace notes are unforgiveable. But you get used to these things, and I'm finding myself enjoying the game quite a bit.

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