Colin McRae Rally 2005

Colin McRae Rally and more recently; Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Colin McRae Rally and Dirt 2 have since been developed and published for Mac OS X by Feral…

80 22 September 2004

Racing Simulator Sport Non-fiction

Colin McRae Rally 2005 is a racing developed by Codemasters Southam, released 22 September 2004 on PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Mac.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Colin McRae Rally 2005 is

Colin McRae Rally 2005 is a racing game developed by Codemasters Southam and released in 2004. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Colin McRae Rally and more recently; Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Colin McRae Rally and Dirt 2 have since been developed and published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive. Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. The series is named after the World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae, who provided technical advice during development. Despite McRae's death in September 2007, Codemasters retained the use of his name on their rally games until the release of Dirt 3, where the moniker was dropped.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Colin McRae series

Colin McRae Rally 2005 is the eighth of 41 entries we hold in the Colin McRae series. The next entry was Colin McRae Rally 2005 in 2004. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Dirt 3 at 86.

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How it was received

Colin McRae Rally 2005 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 71% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 53 votes.

What it launched against

Colin McRae Rally 2005 launched on 22 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Burnout 3: Takedown. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown.

Cheats and codes

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