Looks nice, sounds nice, this could be a really great game. The nicely modeled historical rally cars are great. I really wanted to like this game. But controlling the cars is impossible. It feels like you are steering a ship on water but nothing like a car and even less like a rally car. The advertised "realistic feeling" is not in this game, Maybe it's me, maybe I'm just to incapable but I don't have these problems with other racing games and I didn't have these problems with real life rally cars. The game is some years old already and I have tried it once in a while during these years. I didn't see any significant improvement regarding the handling, therefore I doubt that it will be fixed. I'm afraid I can't recommend this game.
Yes, the graphics may feel a bit outdated compared to current city building simulators. But no matter how much fancy 3D-water-reflection in real time they may add, none of them feels like SimCity 2000. This game is a relict from the times where game design was more important than graphics only. Everywhere you click, you see that the creators really knew what they were doing. Modern games get a new release every year and still are full of bugs and (design) flaws. A year later, the previous versions are already forgot. But SimCity 2000 is still popular after almost two decades. My mobile phone today is more powerful than the desktop-filling computer I first played SimCity 2000 on. It still binds me longer to the monitor than any current game can. Yes, I admit, that's quite an emotional and not really fact-based review, but most people knowing SC2000 know what I'm talking of.
