Whether your car skids around in the snow or the dirt of a country road, you get a sense for how this feels in the way the controller hums, and the haptic triggers relay this by changing the resistance in every press of the accelerator and brake. Not just that, but the road surface is conveyed through crafty and ingenious vibrations and haptic feedback. From the beginning of each race, as you accelerate through the starting gate, the DualSense conveys the action on the screen into subtle yet impressive vibrations through the controller. What WRC 9 really nails is the haptic feedback and little touches that are now possible through the DualSense controller. Outside the cone of light cast by your car, it is hard to see much else, and I had to shift the camera angle to better focus on the road ahead – the first time I have had to do this in a racing game for something other than personal playing preference, and that is testament to how the game looks. Your headlights light the way, casting shadows and reflecting off puddles in the road.

I am not going to wax lyrical about frame rates and Hz output, but as for being a feast on the eyes WRC 9 ticks all the boxes.Īn early race has you racing at night, and WRC 9 really gets across how this would feel. WRC 9 looks good on the PS4, and it looks better on the PS5. Now to me, racing games always manage to look good, and WRC 9 is no exception. The visuals, already impressive on the PS4, truly shine here, with reflections and light bouncing off your car, all supported by a solid frame rate that manages to keep up with the action on the screen.

What Chris didn’t say in his original review, but needs to be said here is – racing games are not my usual go-to game, but WRC 9 has done a slap-up job of making me a convert.Īdding a few licks of PS5 paint, as well as haptic and DualSense support, WRC 9 marks a solid entry point for the future of racing games on the PS5. As Chris said in his original WRC 9 review, WRC 9 is a highly polished release and a genuinely good racer, and that statement still holds.

Wrc 9 or dirt 5