Nacon has announced that developer KT Racing is currently working on WRC 9 which is slated for release in September 2020. Nacon also announced that WRC 9 will also release later on PS5 and Xbox Series X including Nintendo Switch at a later date. This announcement comes after last year Nacon and KT Racing released WRC 8 which is considered as the best title in the franchise so far.
WRC 9 will come with multiple improvements across the board along with new features for rally gaming fans. The current generation version of WRC 9 will release on September 3, 2020, on PS4, Xbox One, and PC via Epic Games Store. A Nintendo Switch release will follow this along with a release on the next-generation of consoles including Xbox Series X and PS5. More details about the next-gen release of WRC 9 will be shared at a later stage.
Nacon and KT Racing have also announced that their license with WRC Promoter has extended for two more years until 2022 for the development and publishing of WRC 10 and WRC 11. KT Racing has promised that it will once again meet the high expectations of rally fans around the world by providing them with even more realism and challenges. Check out the reveal trailer for WRC 9 below.
WRC 9 will feature an enhanced and more challenging Career mode. WRC 8 featured one of the best Career modes in rally games and WRC 9 will continue to build on it and add more even more features and details. It will come with a wider variety of events and a stronger link to what the real-world championship teams are doing throughout the year. It will add three brand new rallies to the event calendar as well.
These include Kenya’s Safari Rally, Rally Japan and Rally New Zealand along with two other rallies with completely redesigned environments. Along with the new rallies, fans of the rally will also be able to drive some of the best classic rally cars that have left their mark on the history of the WRC. Vehicle behaviors will be further improved and refined.
For WRC 9, developers are once again focusing on the realism of car physics such as suspensions, braking, and mass transfer to make driving even more authentic. This attention to detail will ensure that the vehicle’s responsiveness on all surfaces and in all conditions in the real championships are reproduced in the game. Key new additions to WRC 9 include:
- 3 new rallies: Japan, New Zealand, Kenya
- Over 50 official teams and their livery from the WRC, WRC 2, WRC 3 and Junior WRC
- Over 15 bonus cars that have left their mark on the history of the WRC
While you wait for more details about WRC 9 to drop, make sure that you check out our review of WRC 8 and jump in the game as well.
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