Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Both were nominated for BAFTAs in the Mobile and Handheld categories respectively. The N-Gage version reused stages from Colin McRae Rally 2.0.

Two mobile game versions of this game were created, a N-Gage title developed by Ideaworks3D and a J2ME title developed by IOMO and published by Digital Bridges.

Feral chose to make this release as independent of the PC franchise as possible to avoid any issues that might date it, calling it Colin McRae Rally Mac rather than attaching a year to it. Apple's switch to Intel Macs, some behind-the-scenes changes at Feral and other issues conspired to keep Colin McRae Rally Mac from being released until fairly late into 2007, despite it being based on PC-game underpinnings that Windows gamers had been enjoying since late 2004. The development of the game was fraught with problems. It was released on 26 October 2007, six weeks after McRae's death in a helicopter crash. The game's graphic engine allows for more realistic damage effects and a blurred vision effect if the player comes into contact with a hard object.Īn OS X version of this game, renamed as Colin McRae Rally Mac, has been published by Feral Interactive and developed by Robosoft Technologies and represents the first Macintosh release of a CMR series game. In 'Championship' mode the player takes the role of Colin himself competing in six rallies using any 4WD car. There is also a revised graphics and damage engine that enables paint scratches on the car, and a new 'career' mode where the player starts out in the lower club leagues and works their way up to compete with Colin McRae in his 2004 Dakar Rally Nissan Pick-Up. The 2005 incarnation of the McRae franchise was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Portable and has over 70 stages spread over nine countries. The McRae name was then used once again in 2013 in the mobile release of Colin McRae Rally. The series is named after the World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae, who provided extensive technical advice during development.Īfter McRae's death in September 2007, Codemasters used his name one more time in Colin McRae: Dirt 2, dropping the moniker in Dirt 3. Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. As a result, Codemasters had acquired the exclusive license to the World Rally Championship series in June 2020, which will begin as a five-year deal in 2023. In 2022, the franchise was rebranded as EA Sports Rally with both Dirt and Dirt Rally games being released under the brand. Dirt and Dirt Rally (stylized as DiRT and DiRT Rally, formerly known as Colin McRae Rally) is a rally racing video game series developed by Codemasters and published by Electronic Arts under its EA Sports label.

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