Mobil 1

Mobil 1

Mobil 1 is a brand name developed by the Mobil oil company and now marketed by ExxonMobil.It was introduced in 1974 as a 5w single viscosity fully synthetic motor oil advertised for use up to 25,000 miles. Later, the miles-specific recommendation was dropped and the product reformulated in other...

 Rally Championship (officially also called Mobil 1 British Rally Championship, unofficially nicknamed Rally Championship 2000) is a rally

Rallying

Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...

 video game which is part of the Rally Championship series

Rally Championship (series)

Rally Championship is a series of rally video games, focused on rally racing and based on the Rally GB. The series began in 1993 and ended in 2002. Each game in the series had many different front covers.-Network Q RAC Rally :...

. The game was released for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and PlayStation in 31 December 1999. It is developed by Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Fields (computer game developer)

Magnetic Fields was a British game development company founded by Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris in February 1982. The company was originally named "Mr Chip Software" but renamed "Magnetic Fields Ltd." usually simply referred to as "Magnetic Fields", in 1988...

 and published by Actualize.

It is a sequel to the 1997 game International Rally Championship

International Rally Championship

International Rally Championship is a rally computer game which is part of the Rally Championship series. The game was released for Windows in 30 June 1997. It is developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Europress. Several different front covers were released for the game...

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The game features 22 cars and 36 tracks from around the world. Although the official name of the game is Mobil 1 Rally Championship, it simply says "Rally Championship" on the front of the box and the game manual.

Reception

The Windows version of the game received extremely positive scores and rates, due to its incredibly high quality graphics for its time of release. The game has been viewed as one of the greatest racing games of its time. However, the PlayStation version was not very popular and was rated much lower, probably because the PlayStation version had lower quality graphics than the Windows version (due to system processor and graphics card).

Some of the ratings for the Windows version included:

• "Both perfect rally simulation and eye-popping fast arcade actin. Sheer exhilarating pleasure" 5/5 Game of the Month - Maxim
• "The most realistic game I have ever seen" Martin Rowe (British Rally Champion)
• "Rally Championship sets the peace for a completely new generation of racing games: Mobil 1 Rally Championship...the most realistic game...ever! Kicks dust in McRae's
  Colin McRae Rally
  Colin McRae Rally and more recently; Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters.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...
  
  face" PC Gaming World - Five Star Classic Award
• "Throughly entertaining. Mobil 1 Rally Championship is the best racing game to hit the PC...ever" PC Home - 96% Gold Award
• "The feeling of driving a rally prepared vehicle is masterfully conveyed...thrilling...throughly absorbing...Rally is a revelation" 9/10 - Edge
• "Mobil 1 Rally Championship is the closest thing to perfection ever released" www.avault.com
• "I don't think I've ever played a better driving simulation" Games Domain

External links

• Fixes for running Mobil 1 on Windows XP
• Fix for multicore CPU's