V-Rally 3 PS2 Bound
Surprising? Nah, not really, but if you're a fan of rally racing, the market now has yet another high-profile racer to choose from this Summer.
Published: May 11, 2002
Infogrames sure seems to be doing the Atari name some good. Games like Splashdown and Transworld Surf and the upcoming V-Rally 3 and Test Drive have helped put quality behind a brand that could easily have been a shallow, meaningless logo slapped on the front of the box to sell more copies.
That obviously isn't the case, and the previous two Need For Speed-branded V-Rally games have garnered their fair share of accolades, which should make it none too surprising that a third game is headed to the PS2, upgraded with a slew of standard next-gen hardware improvements that help push the PS2 as hard as the PlayStation was taxed.
"V-Rally 3 brings all the tire-spinning realism of rally racing into players' living rooms with an incredible range of tracks, fully detailed cars and a powerful game engine allowing for stunning graphics," exclaimed Jean-Philippe Agati, senior vice president and head of Infogrames' LA studio. "With up to 16,000 polygons per car and more than half a million polygons per track, V-Rally 3 for PlayStation 2 is pushing technology to the limit to blow the doors off the competition."
Heady claims, to be sure, especially with Colin McRae 3 on the horizon, but if anyone is up for taking on the reigning king of rally, it's developer Eden Studios, who helped lift the previous two games to insanely high sales numbers in Europe. We'll have impressions of V-Rally 3 and the 60 gajillion other games Infogrames has lined up this year at E3 later this month.
That obviously isn't the case, and the previous two Need For Speed-branded V-Rally games have garnered their fair share of accolades, which should make it none too surprising that a third game is headed to the PS2, upgraded with a slew of standard next-gen hardware improvements that help push the PS2 as hard as the PlayStation was taxed.
"V-Rally 3 brings all the tire-spinning realism of rally racing into players' living rooms with an incredible range of tracks, fully detailed cars and a powerful game engine allowing for stunning graphics," exclaimed Jean-Philippe Agati, senior vice president and head of Infogrames' LA studio. "With up to 16,000 polygons per car and more than half a million polygons per track, V-Rally 3 for PlayStation 2 is pushing technology to the limit to blow the doors off the competition."
Heady claims, to be sure, especially with Colin McRae 3 on the horizon, but if anyone is up for taking on the reigning king of rally, it's developer Eden Studios, who helped lift the previous two games to insanely high sales numbers in Europe. We'll have impressions of V-Rally 3 and the 60 gajillion other games Infogrames has lined up this year at E3 later this month.
