Act too rough with any of them and you'll lose control of the car-with disastrous results.
Some Dexterity Required: Finesse of the wheel and pedals is a MUST if you wish to push a rally car to the limit.
It can be an impressive game, sure, but without the visual class or inviting demeanour of Colin McRae it'll remain a niche choice in the games market. What kind of frame rates should I expect It depends on view. Unless you're really, really into rally games, Richard Burns Rally is simply too unfriendly to be any fun, no matter whether you're a casual gamer or you found every hidden package in Vice City. It's generally better to play with a driving wheel, but more skilled players can easily drive stage after stage via the keyboard. In order to be able to run Richard Burns Rally at a minimum standard for the game, you will need a CPU ranked better than 1,6GHZ, more than 256MB, a GPU that is. Will the picture look stretched You must use the RBR CamHack program to avoid this from happening. Still, it's rather easy to play if you have a bit of patience, fast reflexes and some basic experience with other rally games. The roads are usually quite narrow, handling physics are portrayed down to minute details, speed is not always of the essence and the countdown to the stage only uses voice acting and NPC gestures instead of visual icons.
Nintendo Hard: Hoo boy.firmly on the hard end of realism.
Sure, you can't die or injure yourself, but at least you get an appropriate reaction from your crew.
In-Vehicle Invulnerability : You can't kill yourself, but if your car crashes particularly hard, you and your co-driver will become alarmed, yelp, groan and wave your hands a bit for a few seconds.
As a matter of fact, Warthog did release some tools for modders to convert cars to the game, in response to efforts from fans who reverse-engineered RBR and developed plugins and tools for it.