Rally Championship (video game)

Rally Championship is a rally video game. It was released for PlayStation 2 in 2002 and GameCube in 2003. It is developed by Warthog Games and published by SCi. It is the last game in the Rally Championship series. The game is a sequel to the 2001 game Rally Championship Xtreme. It is the first game in the series not published by Europress and the first game not released on the PC.

Rally Championship
PlayStation 2 cover art
Developer(s)	Warthog
Publisher(s)	PAL: SCi Games NA: Conspiracy Entertainment
Series	Rally Championship
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, GameCube
Release	PlayStation 2 PAL: May 31, 2002 GameCube PAL: February 7, 2003 NA: July 30, 2003
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

There are 6 different locations (Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, United States, the Arctic and Kenya), with 4 tracks for each location.

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
	GC	PS2
Metacritic	63/100[1]	N/A

Review scores

Publication	Score
	GC	PS2
4Players	N/A	77%[2]
Eurogamer	5/10[3]	N/A
Famitsu	N/A	29/40[4]
Gamekult	5/10[5]	5/10[6]
GameSpot	5/10[7]	N/A
GameSpy	[8]	N/A
IGN	7/10[9]	N/A
Jeuxvideo.com	11/20[10]	11/20[11]
Nintendo Power	2.6/5[12]	N/A

Reception

The GameCube version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[1] Nintendo Power gave the European import a mixed review while the U.S. version was still in development.^[12] GameSpy called the GameCube version "solid", but said that it could not compete against stronger competition like Colin McRae, particularly in the graphics.^[8] In Japan, where the PlayStation 2 version was ported and published by Success on March 27, 2003, Famitsu gave it a score of 29 out of 40.^[4]