Sega Rally Demo Hits Live

Filed in archive Demo on September 18, 2007

The demo for the latest installment in Sega's Rally series is available now on the Live Marketplace. I'm terrible at racing games but I gave this demo The Old College Try and managed to complete an entire race without having my car flip over, fall off of a cliff, or be smashed to bits. I think that's because all of those things are impossible in this game.

With the help of a friendly computer voice telling me what direction to turn I even managed to hold fourth place for an entire lap. That ended, of course, when the AI opponent behind me got three red shells I decided to see what the buttons beside "gas" did and spun out of control. My terrible playing aside, it is a very pretty game - like the PlayStation 3's Motorstorm but with bluer skies and much less bloom-lighting. There's lots of mud, too. Download it and see.