I know these dudes know a lot more than I do about sales, I just don’t see how this wouldn’t sell enough to turn a profit in the US. Even a limited release. Localization wouldn’t be much of a problem... Sega used to and still do make some puzzling decisions. Very lucky that Sonic prints money. 😅
@@chanhjohnnguyen1867 ah makes sense. You’re right, all games needed to be big, deep, sometimes over complicated, and have some melodramatic story. Still, this seems deep and content filled enough to be a late PS2 game. Hell sell it for a discount. Bet it’d move units...maybe more in the UK though. Again, I’m just speculating and have no idea. Maybe good numbers showed it’d bomb huge. Hard for me to give Sega the benefit of the doubt sometimes
I found this in a game shop in Japan back in 2008 and could not believe it! A PS2 port of the original game! But 2006 itself is pretty good fun. Review pretty much spot on.
The saddest thing is that I don't feel like coming across Career Mode playthroughs here. Most, if not all, SR2006 playthroughs are Arcade runs, and I'm hoping someone would make a playthrough of it. One thing about Career Mode though is that how you tune your car. I did have a go at the mode long ago and find out that the part(s) you buy would determine what car class you'll be in, affecting your entry to some of the events, even your starter car can move to a class higher with a better set of parts. That aside, SR2006 is indeed a gem.
Never knew Sega put out an Sega rally 2006 game, this is one of the cool things about your video, i get to learn about great games that i would other wise never get to see!
SEGA Rally 2006 also featured a great OST from music composers famous for the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise, such as Jun Senoue, Tomonori Sawada, Naofumi Hataya, Tomoya Ohtani, Richard Jacques and Hideki Naganuma!
@@SonicXXtreme 1080i or, if you consider the actual rendering resolution, 960x540p. The only 6th gen game that renders 1920x1080 interlaced is Dragon's Lair for Xbox classic. Every other 1080i game like GT4, Tourist Trophy, MX vs ATV, Enter the Matrix are not real 1920x1080 but some other resolution upscaled to 1080i. And to render true 1080i on Dragon's Lair is a miracle with just 64MB of RAM. Even the 60+ 720p games on Xbox are some kind of miracle, some even running at full 60fps.
@@ZinhoMegaman I swear when you see what the original Xbox especially but also PS2 could do it really puts the current consoles to shame. They gave up on 60fps after that generation and went straight to 30 focusing instead on "graphics".
@@SonicXXtreme You missed the joke. The point was that the list of games that support above 480i was pathatic compared to the OG XBOX and GameCube: en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_PlayStation_2_games_with_alternative_display_modes
I imported this game last year and have enjoyed it quite a lot. I just couldn't manage to get an event started in career mode but had a lot of fun in the arcade mode. Glad you covered this game SLX!
There's a trick for that: · Use your smartphone's camera and Google Translate, you'll be able to translate menus no problem. I've already completed 2 seasons of the career mode like this!
Awesome review as always. Next Sega Rally Revo. I loved that game on my PSP so much. Just commuting on the bus and flying trough those gorgeous tracks...
I discovered the 95 game by accident when getting some games for my HDD PS2. It's a fantastic version. I'll be interested in your thoughts on Revo on PSP.
@@SEGAHEADDY Well i have both and i'd say they barely qualify as simulations at all. Not sure if you're implying that having realism in a game makes it boring but i'd certain argue against that notion.
@@RetroGamesBoy78 I definitely prefer arcade racers. Give me Hydro Thunder and Sega Rally over Gran Turismo and Collin McCrae any day! Whatever the case, the vibrant arcade visuals found in most Sega arcade franchises was definitely missing in Sega Rally 2006. Then again, 2006 wasn't an arcade game!
@@SEGAHEADDY tbf i don't really see to much of a difference in the visuals on the whole. Many arcade games that use real world tracks or tracks that look very close in style. Its often the attention grabbing music, game mechanics, that really sets them apart, oh and the over the top "announcer" that usually grace arcade games. ;-)
No PC port 😭. What a sweet take on a great game! Crispy visuals and sweet sound come on! Another superb video SLX and as always your narration is the icing on the 🍰.
The problem is if you loved Sega Rally Championship you loved the beautiful Lancia Delta in Martini graphics, if you wanted to drive a Subaru you'd buy Colin McRae 2004, 2005, WRC etc.
Damn ! I always thought this was a port of SEGA RALLY REVO (aka the PS3 / Xbox 360), and it include the original arcade version too ? This is Christmas !
The presentation is so different, its like they couldn't decide to stay in the arcade roots or chase Colin McCray... just looks so bland... Needs the arcade style poppin colors! Also, the announcer should not be realistic as if heard through a mic, neither of the previous games did so.
@@vram1974 just read a reddit thread about this and one explanation is colour matching the CG in the early 00's was challenging so they'd just mute the colours in the film to match it instead. Think that trend bled over to videogames to make them look 'gritty and cinematic'.
I personally blame the gaming landscape in the US (and to a lesser extent, europe) for this game being stranded in Japan. most of the 7th generation consoles were, at the very least, getting ready to launch, and Us westerners tended to be early adoptors of next gen stuff at the time, so a lot of us were getting ready to leave the ps2 behind (being the target system of the infamous phoenix games didn't help either). In japan however, where arcades still thrive with avengence, clder consoles tend to have a longer shelf life and most people don't rush out to take the plunge (atari2600 notwithstanding) (this is the reason megaman and bass on the super famicom exists, after all). for me this early adoption ended during the current generation-the switch and 3ds are the only 8th gen systems I have since the others are too damn expensive, mutch to the ammuzement of Dave Ramzy.
Shame they moved away from that Lancia Stratos as the cover vehicle. I know Sega doesn't own the design but it's still one of the coolest and most iconic Sega racing cars in my mind. Maybe even tied for #1 along with the Daytona Hornet.
Sega Rally never really did the trick for me, but I also never really gave it a fair shot. This looks like a great game. Unfortunately it seems like racing games don't receive very many fan translations.
Hey Sega Lord another top notch video. Very rarely do I not know of a games existence, but i did not know of this game's existence. You should talk about Sega Rally Revo for xbox360, that game had phenominal mud/track deformation. Later today my review of Enemy Zero is going up
I imported the same pack that you have SLX. I actually mainly bought it for the original game port, but 2006 turned out to be a great addition as well. I bought a Japanese PS2 a while ago since there was so much Sega stuff in that library. Have not regretted it once
When I found out about this package, I knew I had to have it. Sega Rally 2006 has the best handling dynamics. It reminds me of Colin Macrea 2.0, but with an actual sense of speed. This "rally" needs to be re-mastered and translated for other markets as I imported a PS2 just to play it. Sega Rally Championship 1995 is simply icing on the cake, especially in 480p. I felt like Sega gave up on the US market by deciding to not release it here. We got REVO instead. Oof..
It does look and run pretty good for a PS2 game. And I can tell by watching you race that the vehicles handle much like the originals. Which was part of what made them great. It would've been a great game to play. But by 2004 I had a well paying job and come mid 2005 I brought a powerful PC to play Half-life 2 & Doom 3 with ease. Abandoning consoles after that. Though I did buy a real cheap second hand PS3 in 2012 just to play Metal Gear Solid 4. Then gave the console to my nephew once I'd finished the game. The only console I still have on the shelf is my original NES that my brother and I got for Christmas 1989 when I was 4.
Maybe kind of a placebo but when driving through night, change camera to bumper cam help lighting up ahead a bit. I always use chase cam, but when I encountered night stage in Sega Rally 2006, change to bumper cam before my co-driver says "GO".
I really need a time machine this gets me near to my Heart. I Loved the Sega Rally Arcade and Console Games. Oh good old times... So i have to get this one to. That Sega Magic
Didn't even know this one existed. And that is had a better than arcade perfect version of the original one. Well, I will have to make due with Sega Rally Revo on the PS3, it's a fun game and with the track deformation and steering wheel, I think it's still the best Sega Rally experience.
I like a lot Sega Rally, Sega Touring Car on Saturn. And only once run this Sega Rally 2006. I found it col but on JAPAN. So you tell that this game is really good!!
...but... I remember playing a SEGA Rally demo of a NEW SR game on the Xbox 360. Is this that game? I recall one of their key selling points was the technology of having the terrain change shape depending on how the cars roll over the snow, and dirt. I always wanted to see that tech put to use in other racing games moving forward. Anyways, great video.
I hadn’t realised 2006 didn’t come out in the west, I only bought it for Sega Rally 1! I think I tried 2006 once and wasn’t very impressed, it was much blurrier than Sega Rally 2 on the Dreamcast and the cars didn’t seem to drift as easily. It all felt a bit stiff as if they wanted it to be a serious racer rather than an arcade one and it was less fun to play because of that.
I bought this specifically for the Sega Rally bonus disc. I tried to get into the career mode on SR 2006 but the language barrier is just to much trouble to navigate.
kinda surprised this never came put in the west, as it seems like a solid racing game. the original sega rally arcade game is a nice bonus, though to me it seems like something that could have fit on the standard version of the game.. whats your opinion on sega rally revolution for the xbox 360 and PS3?
sega rally lost it's charm when it became more like dirt rally or v-rally and far less looking like , well, the boxy first game, for me, it will always be the first game that is my one true love, what we need is a remaster for the first one in the spirit of virtua racing, and daytona also.
@@e2-woah939 doesn't matter what came before or after, it is the idea that sega rally became like a generic rally game (as in it looks like any other rally game on the market) , so try to take it easy on urself , and try to take a minute to read a post and understand it before throwing a tantrum for no reason, and have a good day.
Once again leave it to Sega to not release a game like this to it's western fans. A far better Rally game is Rallisport Challenge 2 for the Xbox. In terms of graphics, options and replay it walks over Sega Rally. It's fun and has a balance between realistic and arcade gameplay. It even had 16 player link gameplay,which I played quite a bit,and online play. It's a shame but by that point Sega's racing games had been left far behind.
You say you had trouble at the night races, video shows Ken block style skill just missing the walls by a cigarette paper... I think you're doing fine at night man!
SEGA Rally 2006 for PlayStation 2 is a game that's called SEGA Rally 2006 for Playstation 2 and i will now review SEGA Rally 2006 for Playstation 2 SEGA Rally 2006 for Playstation 2
I never been a fan of small countdown clocks in racing game and tend to avoid games with them so my Rally games where WRC for the PS2 and Rallysport Challenge 1 and 2 on the Xbox but i wont deny this game looks great and sad it never saw release here in the staes
That Sega Rally bonus disc can be forced to run in 16:9 on real hardware ps2. I never could get into 2006. But I am going to recommend my favorite racing games series. Battle Gear. Battle Gear 2 is kinda like Sega Rally. BG2 Already has 16:9 as an option Battle Gear 3 is kinda like Sega Rally 2006. BG3 can be forced to run in 16:9 on real hardware ps2. Both are great games with many unlockables I like BG3 so much that I had to get two twins for 4 player vs racing
I dunno, to me is just looks like your generic Colin McRae rally type situation, but I guess the gameplay would be considerably more arcade-y and preferable in my eyes
