This has been a pretty good year for fans of rally games. Richard Burns Rally was great. And now the genre is
serviced again, with Xpand Rally. 
This review automatically loses points with me by using the term "rally cross" several times, showing a lack of basic
knowledge of the sport covered in the game. Rallying involves stage racing. Point A to point B, while being timed.
(With the occasional special stage which is a timed lap.) Rally cross, on the other hand, is circuit racing on dirt.
The review also gets pointless digs in at NASCAR, as if that's the only other racing available out there, which anyone
who follows racing, both in the real world as well as sims, will know is ridiculous.
However, all that aside, the review details Xpand Rally quite well.
Engadget
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