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Now, rallying, that's a real race for you. None of that pansying around on a clinically-clean circuit - get out there in the woods, the snow, the - er, M1. All this manly-type stuff can be yours in Toyota Celica GT Rally.

Being in a rally and all, you need to do all that annoying preparation before you can get out and zoom around. You need to train your co-driver (co-driver? He never touches the blummin' wheel) to call out what sort of corners are coming up - "hard left", "easy right", "fairly tricky strangish bit" and so on, using a number of stock phrases. You should study the route map, too. Once you're out, you encounter all the lovely things that make rallying so much fun: rain, snow, 90 degree bends, barns (awful lot of barns around these tracks!), trees and so on and on.

There are some good touches, like the need to use your windscreen wipes in snow and rain, and the sampled voice of your co-driver. But on the whole, the driving itself is too awkward and unrealistic to make you want to try very much. The corners all seem to be right angles, and the car control is very iffy. Shame really - but hey! That's life.