Art of Rally is a casual "rally game", where you can experience an alternative history of rally and drive cars from different eras in 7 countries.

Getting into the game is easy, control scheme is plain and simple and you can change the difficulty level and the damage rate to adjust the gameplay you looking for, most assists helps you to control the car. Other than that the game looks "casual", it's colorful and has simple shapes and effects, it's good to look at it. Soundtrack is fitting for the experience, I would say it's relaxing. Multiplayer is still somewhat active. It has some easter eggs which is car or rally related, people who are into this more can appreciate it for sure.

However for me Art of Rally has it's own set of difficulties, starting with the handling. Most assists helps you to keep the car on the tracks, but they make the handling weird and just makes no sense. Sometimes I have grip doing a slow corner, sometimes when I do the same I have no grip at all. A lot of times have to counter steer which is set too strong and that makes me lose control. In the other hand driving with no assist at all is somewhat better, but now the car either over steers or under steers at breaking, breaking without locking your wheels is impossible for me on controller. This is something which took a lot of frustration to get used to, but what I couldn't get used to is the respawn system, because if you just slide 10 meters from the track, you immediately get respawned and get a 5 seconds time penalty, even though I could have easily comeback on track. You have to also get used to the camera, which gives you a bird eye view of your car and surrounding and at first it's hard to determine corners and your speed, not even mentioning that foliage and buildings can block your view of the later part of the track, which makes it difficult to drive. Oh and yes, even though this is a so called rally game you have no co-driver for whatever reason, but that's the least of a problem to be fair.

AOR is not a bad game, but it depends on your preferences of racing games. If you interested in rally games and looking to get a casual, not so serious one, or just interested in time trial games, then you can give it a go with Art of Rally. To me, it's okay, but won't be my favorite. 25€ is expensive for this one, but for 7€ is a decent deal.

Игра мне, конечно, понравилась, но... Почему не учитывается сила нажатия тригера при ускорении? Я, может быть, не хочу полность ускоряться, но у меня нет вариантов - если не вдавить триггер до упора, то машина не сдвинется с места. Как по мне - огромный минус в игре, которая пытается быть относительно реалистичной в плане управления автомобилем. Возврат только из-за этого.

Best car feel ever