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* [[Better Than It Sounds Video Games]]
* [[Cool Car]] : Every damn one of them - and they're all just [[Took a Level In Badass|somewhat modified versions]] of [[Awesome Yet Practical|ordinary 60s and 70s passenger cars]]. Well, except [[Improbably Cool Car|the two Lancias]], which were among the first purpose-built modern rally cars.
* [[Creator Provincialism]] : To a degree. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in the case of Finland, since it's one of the birthplaces of modern rally racing and a staple of many international rally championships. An amusing [[Playing Withwith a Trope]] version of this occurs with the Russian stages : They're in Russia all right... [[Genius Bonus|But judging by the place names and the local enviroment, its very obvious they're all set specifically in]] [[wikipedia:Karelia|Karelia]], [[Genius Bonus|the traditional border region between Russia and Finland.]]
* [[Darkest Africa]] : Kenya, a staple of rally games, is the second country in the championship.
* [[Driving Stick]] : As in many rally racing games, you can choose either manual or automatic transmission. Automatic is easier to drive with (especially for newcomers), while manual is harder, but more sensitive and responsive.
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** Notable total conversions are the [[Present Day]] ''[http://www.nogripracing.com/files.php?subcat=16 WRC Mod]'' and the unofficial [[Fan Sequel]] ''[http://www.nogripracing.com/files.php?subcat=91 Rally Trophy II]''.
* [[George Lucas Throwback]] : The whole point and theme of the game.
* [[Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive]] : [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with.]] Of all 11 cars, 8 are RWD - and they vary a lot in terms of performance and the amount of skill needed for driving them. It's generally better to start with the more easily accessible <small>FWD</small>s (the [[Badass Normal|SAAB 96]], [[Fragile Speedster|Lancia Fulvia]] and [[Badass Adorable|Mini Cooper]]) and then gradually accustom yourself to the rear wheel drives. Some <small>RWD</small>s in the game can be literally sadistically hard to keep on the road along a straight line, with the [[Cool but Inefficient|Lancia]] [[Crazy Awesome|Stratos]] and the 60s version of the [[The Big Guy|Opel Kadett]] being the worst offenders - but it's all justified, since those cars ''[[Truth in Television|really were that hard to control]]''. Generally speaking, the most stable to drive RWD cars are probably the {{spoiler|Alfa Romeo Giullia and the Ford Cortina}}.
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]] :
** Novice
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*** The difficulty levels also influence which cars, countries and stages you can select.
* [[In Vehicle Invulnerability]] : Played straight, but with a subversion or two : As your windshield and front lights get damaged, your line of sight diminishes and gets a bit obscured (especially on night stages).
* [[Limited Sound Effects]] : Averted very well - [[Zig -Zagging Trope|except for the crash SFX]], which play this painfully straight, being nearly identical, regardless of whether you hit a rock, tree or some metal object or whether you damaged the car's body or windows.
* [[Nintendo Hard]] : It says something when one of the reviewers called it the rally cousin of ''[[Grand Prix Legends]]''. It's generally considered as having an exceptional damage model and very realistic, yet accessible handling physics [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|(especially for its time)]]. Many rally racing fans consider it to be the second most hardcore game of the whole genre, right after ''[[Richard Burns Rally]]''.
* [[Norse Byby Norsewest]] : Sweden and Finland, being traiditional rally racing countries, feature in the championship. An aversion of this trope, since they're portrayed faithfully and differ quite a bit from each other (it helps that Sweden is the obligatory "snow and winter" country of the championship).
* [[Rule of Funny]] : ''A lot'' of various [[Affectionate Parody|tongue-firmly-in-cheek gags]], in contrast to what is otherwise a serious [[Driving Game]]. Your co-driver is... [[Large Ham|rather]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|unconventional]]... In the English dub he has a definitely [[Upperclass Twit]] accent and is really fond of [[Never Live It Down|chastising you for each car-shattering hit and crash you make]]. His [[Sarcasm Mode]] [[Snark Knight|snarking]] and [[Large Ham]] remarks [[Played for Laughs|are generally hilarious]]. Less patient players could probably consider it a [[Most Annoying Sound]] though (especially on more harder to beat stages, where a minor crash or two is almost inevitable).
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] : The game's [[Creative Closing Credits|credits]] {{spoiler|featuring grainy footage of two 1950s-style Formula One toy cars pulled by strings competing on a muddy racing circuit built in someone's back yard}} are... [[Stylistic Suck|unusual...]] [[Narm Charm|to say the least...]]
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