WRC: Rally Evolved is the fifth game of the WRC series. It features game modes commonly found in a rally game: quick races, single rally, and full championship. New modes include Rally Cross, a race on a multi-lap track in solo or multi-player (four players on the same screen or sixteen through the internet). Another new mode involves challenging the multiple French world champion of WRC, Sebastien Loeb, in a list of races where the player starts with a time handicap. A final mode gives the ability to free-run on a big complex on different kinds of road in the middle of a big oval track to test more than forty rally cars, coming from past, present and future.
This installment of the series has enhanced features compared to the previous game. Navigator voice acting is more precise, and gameplay has a new feature: environmental hazards that affect the race, such as fire, rocks, animals or other competitors, which must be avoided.