WRC Generations

With its absolute mountain of rally locations, WRC Generations is uncommonly generous package for gravel groupies, asphalt addicts, and mud-slinging maniacs alike.

WRC Generations marks the end of a series that has never really hit cruising speed on Switch. Like its predecessors, its look and feel are subpar and while it has a lot of content, it's a struggle to enjoy it fully given how many compromises you have to make. After a lot of time spent with it, you'll finally start to see results, but this is a game that perhaps requires too much compromise on the player's part to appeal to anyone but the most ardent rally fans.

What developers achieved was a beautiful but pointless finale and the franchise will be remembered as a mediocre series.

While it does add new content and some new car variety, performance and controls are touchy on Switch

WRC Generations is available now on the following platforms: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch.

WRC Generations is more of an evolution of the previous WRC 10, but in every respect, it represents the best that KT Racing and Nacon have been able to create over the years. If you’re a fan but already own one of the older titles, you should definitely invest the full price in WRC Generations. For owners of WRC 10, I recommend waiting for a small discount, but I can still recommend WRC Generations to them as KT Racing’s new flagship title. On behalf of us at Gaming Professors, I’m giving the game eight and a half out of ten points.

For those who were already used to expecting actual mechanical improvements in each WRC iteration, WRC Generations might be a bit disappointing, as it is, for the most part, more WRC 10. That is to say it’s more of the (still pretty good) same. It makes up for its lack of innovation with a sheer amount of tracks and cars at your disposal, in a “greatest hits” kind of way. Even though it’s slightly less polished than WRC 10, I still absolutely recommend checking WRC Generations out.

WRC Generations is a nice ride into the sunset as the WRC license transitions to Codemasters. As with most retirements, this one isn’t perfect. The campaign is cookie-cutter, and the presentation is still quite lacking. But the racing, the pure, unadulterated speed and brutality of rally racing, remains. That may be Kylotonn’s legacy for this series, that of making an uncompromising simulator which makes you earn a spot on the podium. At this last venture, WRC Generations deserves its own spot up there as well.

Kylotonn should be commended for their work on the series for the last seven years, but post-launch issues combined with a game that doesn't quite feel right yet brings about a rather disappointing end to what could have been so much more.

When I think of WRC, I think of a serious and sober simulator focused 100% on the rally experience, with no monetization to capitalize on the gaming experience. WRC Generations may very well be the last game of its kind (at least until 2027).