Using your phone’s joystick or keypad, there’s absolutely no degree of fine control at all. How often you’re able to make it into sixth gear, though, is another matter entirely because CMR 2005 has one of the most absurdly flawed control systems we’ve encountered in a mobile game. Offering two viewpoints (cockpit and chase cam), there’s a tangible sense of speed when you’re pelting across the Australian outback or the winding roads of England in top gear, with amusing arcade physics resulting in some impressive airtime over the jumps.
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While the developer’s boasts of 3D graphics are over-inflated, you’ll notice immediately from the screenshots that Colin McRae Rally 2005 resembles its bigger PC and console brothers a lot more closely than CMR 2004 did.
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The developer too has taken on a Herculean rtask in trying to cram in as much as possible from a full 3D PC and home console game into the humble handset. In Colin McRae Rally 2005 however the difficulty isn't only reserved for the player. Whilst CMR2005 thankfully no longer requires you to finish first in order to progress to the next rally, you'll more than likely find yourself perpetually wallowing at the bottom of the leaderboard looking up at apparently superhuman opponents. Hence, the frustrations which dogged CMR 2004, leaving many players (including ourselves!) to abandon it early having repeatedly failed to win the stage, once again raise their ugly head.
This is as true for mobile as any format. In true rallying style however, the Colin McRae series has always adopted a more direct line through the challenge corner, in it's attmept to simulate the tough rally experience it tends to start it's engines at 'tricky' and accelerating rapidly into 'bloody difficult' before reaching 'nigh in impossible for humankind'.
Experts in this sort of thing (which we hasten does not include us), often suggest something called a 'difficulty curve' which in a perfect world should gradually arc up from a low-base allowing players to master the basics through an increasingly steep angle which will thoroughally test their new skills. Whilst everyone agrees it's important that a game offers some challenge so that a genuine satisfaction can be achieved from mastering it, exactly how much of a challenge to offer is rather less straightforward. The nature of 'difficulty' is something of a black-art in the world of games.