As a direct ancestor of iRacing, the ‘Grand Prix Legends engine’ had multiple stock car racing false starts, before eventually releasing as NASCAR Racing 4. The original NASCAR 3, cancelled and replaced by one that used NASCAR 2’s engine, is barely remembered.
Video game development is full of names that have made groundbreaking steps you’ve never even heard about. Shawn Nash is a behind-the-scenes pioneer responsible for SODA Off Road Racing’s incredible physics, Papyrus’ graphical advancements and iRacing’s use of laser scan data for the physical track surfaces.
This interview with RSC, published in 2021, details his early life and career, through both his own company, Papyrus, Electronic Arts, to his time at iRacing.
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Alan Boiston of Team VVV had the opportunity to livestream gameplay of WRC Generations on Steam recently and an archive is now available on his channel.
The video is quite comprehensive and Alan does a great job of showing the new Hybrid cars, giving his opinion on physics and handling, optimization and graphics, stages – new and old, menus (including the new showroom feature), content, driving views, and more.
What’s most notable to me in his video is the improved engine sounds and sharpened graphics. Alan’s section showing Rally Sweden (snowy stage that begins at the 30-minute mark) really does look gorgeous. WRC Generations looks like an obvious step forward but I don’t yet think it has the natural physics feel hardcore racers might expect and I’m confused by some slow speed understeer present in the video. It does, however, look like they still beat DiRT Rally 2.0 for physics, and this developer has been on-top there for a couple of years at least.
WRC Generations will be the developer’s final licensed WRC title. The license moves over to Codemasters next year in a 5-year deal.
You can pre-order WRC Generations on Steam. Releases on November 3, 2022.
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