''V-Rally'' is a

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series originally developed and published by

Infogrames Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA) is a French video game holding company headquartered in Paris. Its subsidiaries include Atari Interactive and Atari, Inc. It is the current owner of the Atari brand through Atari Interactive. Bec ...

. It debuted in 1997 with the release of the eponymous game for the

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console.

History

''V-Rally'' is a

series created by the French interactive entertainment company

. It debuted in 1997 with the release of the eponymous game for the

console, which was critically and commercially successful in Europe.

Eden Studios Eden Studios was a commercial recording facility in west London. It opened in 1967, originally at 11 Eden Street in Kingston upon Thames (now under the Eden Walk shopping centre), before moving to 20-24 Beaumont Road in Chiswick in 1972. It was ...

, a company that evolved from the Infogrames team that developed the original game, would subsequently develop the sequels '' V-Rally 2'' in 1999 and ''

V-Rally 3 ''V-Rally 3'' is a racing video game developed by Eden Studios and published by Infogrames Europe. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance platforms in 2002, and ported to the Xbox, GameCube, and Microsoft Windows in 2003. Game ...

'' in 2002. As of December 2001, the ''V-Rally'' series had sold four million units worldwide according to ''

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''. Conversely, ''

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'' reported that it had sold almost 5 million units by October 1999. In 2017, the series' 20th anniversary was celebrated, with Eden showing an image gallery of its favourite

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cars. A fourth game, ''

V-Rally 4 ''V-Rally 4'' is a racing video game developed by Kylotonn and published by Bigben Interactive for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch in 2018. The developer had previously worked on the official 2017 WRC game. Gam ...

'', was developed by

Kylotonn Kylotonn Société à responsabilité limitée, SARL is a French video game development studio founded in 2006 in Paris. They are best known for their racing games, and are the official developer of the ''World Rally Championship (video game se ...

and published by

Bigben Interactive Nacon (formerly Bigben Interactive) is a French video game company based in Lesquin. It designs and distributes gaming accessories, and publishes and distributes video games for various platforms. In 2020 Bigben Group was consolidated to form Na ...

in 2018. The game was directed by Alain Jarniou, who had previously worked on the

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version of ''V-Rally 3'' as a second programmer.

Games

* ''

V-Rally ''V-Rally'' is a racing video game series originally developed and published by Infogrames. It debuted in 1997 with the release of the eponymous game for the PlayStation console. History ''V-Rally'' is a racing video game series created by the ...

'' (1997) * '' V-Rally 2'' (1999) * ''

'' (2002) * ''

'' (2018)

References

External links

* {{V-Rally Nacon franchises Rally racing video games Video game franchises Video game franchises introduced in 1997