Video: WRC 2 FIA World Rally Championship 2011

If you played the first World Rally Championship game, you’ll expect an excellent handling system, an in-depth career mode and detailed car graphics in this sequel. And you’ll get them.

WRC2 offers a realistic driving experience, albeit one that doesn’t aim for as many thrills and spills as some of the more flamboyant titles.

Our main gripe is that it is too familiar to players of the first game. We’d have loved a split-screen mode, for example, and some innovations in the online multiplayer.

Rating: ***