Ludography
86/100
Players9 ratings
70/100
Critics1 review
Rally Trophy cover

2001 · Racing · Simulation

Rally Trophy

In the game, the player is taken through 42 highly detailed stages in five countries - Russia, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and Kenya - which cover several road surfaces including gravel, mud and tarmac. Stages take place in all weather conditions such as rain in both the day and night. Damage is accurately re-created, even down to broken headlights which the player must of course preserve to see during night stages. Rally Trophy was considered by many people to be the Grand Prix Legends of rally driving, due to its focus on historic cars, and the physics models of the cars (with no traction control or driver aids) being relatively realistic and challenging for its time.

Released
20 November 2001
Platforms
Windows
Genres
RacingSimulationSports
Developers
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Publishers
JoWooD Entertainment
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
First personThird person
Themes
HistoricalNon-fiction
Age ratings
ESRB EUSK 0

About

Rally Trophy is a 2001 historic PC rally simulation, developed by Bugbear Entertainment and published by JoWooD Productions for the Microsoft Windows operating system in 2001. A version for Xbox was also announced but never released. A demo version of the game was published in October 2001. In the first two days, the demo was downloaded 150.000 times.

Keywords

  • rally
  • cars
  • russia
  • vintage
  • racing simulator
  • drifting
  • finland
  • off-roading
  • sweden

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Rally Trophy received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The Finnish gaming magazine Pelit summarized that "Rally Trophy sets the standard for all future driving games. The graphics are absolutely stunning and the lack of inspiring game modes is compensated by the sheer thrill of driving cars that behave uniquely and realistically. A must-have for all rally fans".

IGN summarized that "Rally Trophy is a superb game that offers an unusual alternative to the more technology packed offerings like McRae and Pro Rally". Several critics compared the game to Grand Prix Legends including Pelit, IGN and GameSpot.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows14 November 2001Europe · North America 20 November 2001

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