EA WRC vs Richard Burns Rally vs Real Life | SS16 Päijälä Secto Rally Finland 2023 - Solberg

We finally have a stage that is comparable between a modern rally game and RBR!
The stage is SS16 Päijälä from Rally Finland 2023 driven by Oliver Solberg. I drive the Ford Fiesta WRC in both RBR and EA WRC. The RBR footage is sped up by 3% as the game is slower than real life.
Thanks must be given to the RBR stage creators for creating much more detailed and accurate looking stages for free.

All credit for the RBR stage goes to BTBfin, with the link below to try the stage yourself.

I personally think that Rally Finland is one of the least accurate looking rallies in EA WRC due to it's color inaccuracy and severe lack of trees/foliage. It is obvious that other rallies like Monte Carlo were given much more work.

[bearstevens]

What do you guys think about the stage accuracy of WRC compared to RBR?

[timbuktu]

I was there at Päijälä for this years wrc event, irl runs corners 4.41 - 4.51 (where katsuta had a spin irl) mark i gotta say playing EA WRC i had no idea i passed the corner combination because the altitude profile is complety wrong and the stages dont even feel like Finland because of lack of trees & foliage, really bummed completely ruins the immersion of the stages. It should be difficult twisty woods stage and not thru some fields also cant fathom how they got the altitude of the corner combination so wrong.

[nidedgui]

Let's be honest, rbr just needs to be remastered!!!

[juliend]

The colors of rbr of the trees and grass almost the same as real . Just the dx9 can't do the same .

[Putkijumala]

Somehow Codemasters have a hard time making Finland look even close to what Finland looks like. It was same story with Dirt Rally 2.0. It's a shame because in DR 2.0 one of the best stages in the whole universe was ruined by the bad physics and now another amazing and iconic piece of road ruined by the choice of using Unreal Engine 4. Also they somehow managed to flatten the rollercoaster. In WRC the flow on Finnish roads is completely missing. It's a shame because the driving aspect of the game is rea-aly solid and Finnish roads should be the best thing since sliced bread. (Only roads I still can enjoy driving in RBR)

[mwa]

1. MOAR TREES (probably just a performance thing why so many are missing)
2. Truly dynamic weather occasionally would be awesome, instead of just same start to finish all the time.
2.5. To go with that, wet roads don't instantly turn into slippy slidey zero traction nightmares. Please learn to scale this better.
3. All things considered all three are pretty close (but don't stop pushing)
4. Nice comparison video. Good job.

[simoholm]

There is some accurate points in WRC but the ambient, colors, trees(lack of it) and road textures are just wrong or bad. Should have done better job. Finnish stages in RBR, thanks to modders, are way more Finnish-like. I dont even mind if the road is not real road but the feeling, ambient and colors should be spot on.

[mesasartworks]

Most important things are:

- Solberg is faster than the guy who drives for RBR and EA Sports WRC
- Also, much-much more trees available IRL than in RBR + WRC has together

[patrickvalmont]

I personally think RBR did a very good job on mapping tracks. Looks nice though dated. WRC looks dry and mundane but maybe because of the season ?

[jukewak]

In despite of the age of the game, RBR looks very close to IRL and i don't talk about physics 😁 . WRC looks like a cartoon arcade game without taste .it looks like nothing .

[betongameindonesia]

looks like EA WRC not trying to remake the realife version to the game, juat the same track but different foliage. if you find realism representative its bad, but if you doesnt really know the realife stage and new player like me its preety cool stage. i just noticed that EA wrc is lack of smal bump/imperfections on stage. its just a smooth ride, for me its litlebit less impresiveness for me

[RST]

I just get ea wrc. Im a rbr fan and spend some time in the game but EA wrc is not bad. Its actually very good and surprisingly feedback is very good, handling is good, better than dirt 2.0. It can be comparable with RBR easly, even rbr have issues with physics we need to admit. RBR can win only with number of stages and detail on some stages.

[jcaashby]

What does WRC (Codemasters) have against adding the structures that go over the track 3:39 ...not sure what they are called. RBR in my opinion does a better job of at least trying to match the IRL stages.

[socks]

why do i look at this and think richard burns rally looks more realistic than ea sports wrc...? in fact, i even think it looks better. yes the trees are just sprites/ planes with transparency. but does it matter? it looks better and performs a thousand times better. sure its not as pretty as ea wrc. but it looks better to me, especially if you are playing in vr. kind of the same way assetto corsa looks so good even though its graphics tech is similar (trees just transparent planes etc)

[dubtube]

Wrc looks like a fairy tale environment, and where is the forest? Always this brownish colors

[Catty]

Those Flags are so unrealistic… so stupid … rbr remastered and it will be 10/10 for me! 😊

[msum]

I raelly hope they're going to fix Finland in the update because it's sad how it is right now...

[monotechno]

WRC ist still game. RBR more like Simulator makes for me more fun

[usemorebrainplz-isgy]

For me who is just enjoying a rally game as a normal user EA WRC is more nice to watch, im happy they went on and made the design a bit better then the normal footage of just trees. Sure they can have done a lot better also but really happy I dont have to drive around with just green trees everywhere.

[terenceramroop]

I've always wondered why this game can't be ported over to consoles. I'm certain the series X and ps5 can handle the system requirements.