Colin McRae Rally
Colin McRae Rally is the first entry in the Colin McRae Rally franchise. The game features twelve different laser modeled vehicles in which players can compete against the clock and your rivals over fifty…
Colin McRae Rally is a racing developed by Codemasters Southam, released 1 July 1998 on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Colin McRae Rally is
Colin McRae Rally is a racing game developed by Codemasters Southam and released in 1998. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dirt and Dirt Rally, is a rally racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Codemasters had acquired the exclusive license to the World Rally Championship series in June 2020, which began as a five-year deal in 2023.
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 is the first of 41 entries we hold in the Colin McRae series. The next entry was Colin McRae Rally 2.0 in 2000. Its critic score of 50 is 27 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Dirt 3 at 86.
How it was received
Colin McRae Rally holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average. Players rate it 66, 16 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Colin McRae Rally launched on 1 July 1998, within three weeks of Banjo-Kazooie, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Heart of Darkness and Wetrix. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Banjo-Kazooie, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Heart of Darkness, Wetrix.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Colin McRae Rally yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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