At its best, #Drive Rally feels a bit like what’d happen if Colin McRae was in Crazy Taxi, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement | Gaming

The rallying part of #Drive Rally is pretty good.

It’s not going to knock the sims that currently sit at the head of what’s become a more niche mini-genre than rally fans would like – largely due to WRC’s inability to properly re-capture the zeitgeist to the extent it did in the early 80s, late 90s, and early 2000s – off their pedestal. But, after about five hours so far, I can tell you the game’s arcadey lobbing of automobiles down muddy tracks art the kind of speed usually reserved for those who think they’ve left the gas on after heading out go on holiday is entertaining.

You’ll be flung headlong down a tight trail in cars that range from pretty much stock to ‘someone’s bought their body kit from NASA’ – the latter in a good way – with some poor…