NACON and its development studio KT Racing have announced WRC 9, the official video game of the FIA World Rally Championship, featuring multiple improvements and new features for rally gaming fans. WRC 9 will be released on September 3 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC from the Epic Games Store, and at a later date on Nintendo Switch.
WRC 9 is also being developed for Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, with more details on release timing and features in the coming months.
NACON and KT Racing have also announced the continuation of their licensing agreement with WRC Promoter until 2022, for the development and publishing of WRC 10 and WRC 11.
Here are some of the features for WRC 9. More details and features will be revealed at a later date.
- An enhanced and more challenging Career mode –Â Hailed as one of the best Career modes in any racing game, WRC 8 was a hit with rally fans. It returns in WRC 9 with enhanced gameplay mechanics, new opportunities to upgrade your team, a wider variety of events and a stronger link to what the real-world championship teams are doing throughout the year.
- Even more content –Â WRC 9 again includes extensive content with three new events added to the calendar: the return of Kenya’s iconic Safari Rally, Rally Japan and its challenging narrow asphalt roads, the beautiful scenery of Rally New Zealand and two other rallies with completely redesigned environments. Fans will also be able to take the wheel of new classic cars that have left their mark on the history of the WRC.
- An even more realistic game experience – To improve and refine certain vehicle behaviors, the developers have again focused on the realism of car physics – including suspensions, braking and mass transfer – to take authenticity to the next level. This attention to detail faithfully reproduces the vehicles’ responsiveness on all surfaces and in all conditions found in the real championship. A special focus on sound also provides deeper immersion.
In WRC 9, players are thrust into the heart of the new FIA World Rally Championship season with all content in the yearly calendar and much more:
- 3 new rallies: Japan, New Zealand, Kenya
- Over 50 official teams and their livery from the WRC, WRC 2, WRC 3 and Junior WRC
- Over 15 bonus cars that have left their mark on the history of the WRC
