EA Sports WRC

EA Sports WRC features 78 rally cars.^[2] 10 Groups Rally cars are from the World Rally Championship, including three Rally1 vehicles such as the Puma of M-Sport, the i20 N of Hyundai and the GR Yaris of Toyota and seven other cars from the support categories — the World Rally Championship-2 and the Junior World Rally Championship, including Ford Fiesta Rally3 — as well as 68 classic rally cars.^[3] The other rally cars include Citroën Xsara WRC, Mini John Cooper Works WRC, Ford Fiesta Rally4 and Colin McRae R4, which was previously featured in DiRT 3.^[4] Car Builder, which is similar to My Team of the F1 series, allows players to create and customise their own rally cars.^[5] The game includes over 200 competition stages across 18 WRC rallies.^[6] Multiplayer mode is available for up to 32 cross-platform players.^[7] Virtual reality mode is planned to be implemented in the future.^[8]

The game was revealed on 5 September 2023.^[9] It was initially built as a sequel to Dirt Rally 2.0.^[10] Codemasters, the developer of the F1 series, started development of a WRC video game after they regained the licence in 2020.^[11] The last game by Codemasters with WRC licence was Colin McRae Rally 3 released in 2002, featuring the 2002 season.^[12] EA Sports published the game after Codemasters was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2021.^[13] The game is powered by Unreal Engine 4, replacing Ego, which Codemasters had been using for its Dirt series since 2009's Colin McRae: Dirt 2.^[14]

The game was available for Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 3 November 2023.^[15] It featured three covers, featuring the Ford Puma Rally1 on PC, Hyundai i20 N Rally1 on Xbox and Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 on PS5.^[16] Jon Armstrong, a professional rally driver, worked on the game throughout its development as a game designer.^[17]

A major expansion entitled EA Sports WRC 24, also known as EA WRC 24 or simply WRC 24, was launched as downloadable content on 8 October 2024.^[18] The expansion featured the official 2024 season cars and two additional locations, Rally Latvia and Rally Poland.^[19]

In May 2025, it was announced^[20] that Codemasters had stopped development on future WRC titles, leaving EA Sports WRC as the only title made under the license.^[21]

EA Sports WRC received "generally favorable reviews", according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[26] Reviewers praised the handling model, the extensive stage length and the car builder. Criticism mainly stemmed from frame-rate issues, especially on the Windows version.