
Release Date: April 16, 2025
An arcade rally game from a Polish studio, inspired by the rallies and racing games of the 1990s. #DRIVE Rally offers a unique cartoonish graphics style, a career mode and a funny co-pilot who besides reading the notes also comments on our progress and makes jokes.
#DRIVE Rally is an informal sequel of the game #DRIVE, released by the Polish studio Pixel Perfect Dude in 2019, initially only for mobile devices. In the second installment of the series, the developer primarily focused on "large" hardware platforms, changing the gameplay formula and its theme.
It is a light, humorous and caricatural look at rallies, intended to pay tribute to the 1990s, both in relation to earlier rally games and the motorsport discipline itself.
Unlike the original #DRIVE, in the game described here we watch rallying from a camera hanging closely behind the car or even placed inside the cockpit. The driving model is arcade - the vehicles have no tendency to slide and are easy to control.
The light approach of the creators is best evidenced by the co-pilot, who turns out to be much more talkative than in most rally games. Not only does he read the notes, warning us about turns and other important parts of the stage (like big jumps), but also encourages us to fight, scolds us for mistakes made, and even makes casual remarks of a general nature - all in a humorous tone.
#DRIVE Rally does not include licensed cars, but the available models - despite their slightly exaggerated proportions - are easy to recognize famous "rally classics", like the Audi Quattro (Das Sandsturm) or the Peugeot 205 (The Bobond). They can be modified by changing body parts or covering the body with stickers.
The basis of the game is the single-player career mode. In it, we have several teams to choose from, which we can lead to victory. In each of them we start with a different car and a different co-driver by our side. The competition takes us to places like Germany, Finland, and the USA.
A distinguishing feature of #DRIVE Rally is its cartoonish graphic design, which goes well with the light theme of the game.
Platforms:
PC Windows
Age restrictions: none
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It’s like modern fun meets classic dirt roads. #DRIVE Rally captures the spirit of '90s rally games.
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Olga Racinowska
April 17, 2025
System Requirements for #DRIVE Rally Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core i3 2.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GTX 650 or better, 5 GB HDD, Windows 10.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5 3.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 970 or better, 5 GB HDD, Windows 10.
Game Ratings for #DRIVE Rally Video Game.
Press Start: 7.5 / 10 by Steven Impson
Outside the co-drivers, I enjoyed my time with Drive Rally. While the career mode is bare bones, the actual rally driving is wonderful. It strikes a balance between being approachable and having the depth to keep you playing and improving. Well worth a look if you miss the glory days of 90s era rally games.
Retrolike.net: 6 / 10 by Sebastiaan Barneveld
#DRIVE Rally is for those who love to set best times on online leaderboards. The game offers a solid racing experience with a good sense of speed. Outside of time trails, there’s little else in the way of goals and there’s limited customization. The talkative navigators, while an interesting idea, I feel will find themselves muted fast by most players. And those looking for a proper rally experience, be it arcade or otherwise, best look elsewhere.
DualShockers: 6 / 10 by Aaditya Chugh
#DRIVE Rally by Pixel Perfect Dude delivers a fun arcade-style rally experience with electrifying music and easy to understand controls. It also features four maps taken from the following countries: Germany, the U.S., Finland, and SE Asia. Players can unlock and customize cars as they progress through championships, and the game runs smoothly even on low-end setups. While it offers an enjoyable ride, repetitive gameplay and out-of-sync audio cues (with no minimap) can make navigating tricky after a few hours.
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