IGN writes: "The Colin McRae series has long been considered king of rally racers. With Dirt 2, Codemasters pays fitting homage to the late McRae while trying to appeal to a larger audience. The result is a gorgeous racing game with some satisfying rally sections and a whole lot of wheel-to-wheel racing. While hardcore rally fans may be a bit bummed to find pure rally racing makes up only a fifth of the Career Mode, those who just want a good racing game will be happy."
What were the genre’s greatest entries ever?
ASidCast: "There are times when you’ve got a lot of free time and very few games that you’d wanna play. This is a list of great games that one must play regardless of how old they get, and not playing these would just be a sin for racing fans. Most of these games revolutionized their genre and probably created their own genre in the process, while some were just too advanced for their time. If in any case you missed these, then you better search for these games and play them for a fun dose of gaming history or as a new experience entirely. "
Bad list, but to each their own.
No Forza Horizon, Driveclub, Assetto Corsa, or Grid Autosport?
And if you can throw in Trials when its not a racing game, why is there no Rocket League?
what shocked me was two games I loved during the ps2 era
JUICED and Street Racing Syndicate, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
Then you have Forza 3, GT5, and the others you named above... smh
edit: and crazy taxi and trails aren't even racers lOl
Bought Grid 1 on pc for 2.50 last week, playing that at 4k60fps will make you feel nuts for ever spending 100's on racing games.
Says the guy who payed 100's on his 4k rig to play a racing game /s.
JK, Im sure its amazing in 4k... Its amazing in 1080p too so I can only imagine. You should try Grid Autosport, I actually liked that better than Grid.
I'll get it in a couple of years for 2.50. After I beat grid 2 and about 5 other racers I have.
@nowitski2004: I chose Project CARS over Assetto Corsa as a personal opinion,and Grid 1 over Autosport because the first one was great 'for it's time', autosport was good but just not that great.
Rocket League would actually be the next game if could make a longer list,really sorry on that.
@C-H-E-F: Juiced and SRS,are you serious? These are the games that defines the genre?
Hot Pursuit 2010 was Burnout Paradise with licensed carswith cops and wasn't even a better game world.
Crazy Taxi wins on the mobile platform,there are very few racing games on mobile with a open world. And the few there are,arent as good as Crazy Taxi. And racing against the clock makes does it a racing game.
Hardcore Gamer: Each game has been discounted 66%, taking DiRT 2 down to $5.09, DiRT 3 down to $8.49, and DiRT Showdown to $10.19 on their own. The best value for your money is the Megapack, which gives you all three for only $17.
Just to be sure I think I am going to rent this game. While it looks like it could be fun... something tells me the whole x-games, XTREME!, right on!, stuff is going to get on my nerves. Also I am an avid Richard Burns Rally fan so just about anything else feels unrealistic. I hope I find it to be good.
From what the review was saying it appears that Pikes peak is missing. If this is so i'll have to say that i'm a little disappointed. It definitely looks like the love child of Dirt 1 and Grid, not to say that this is a bad thing it's just seemed to be the natural progression of the title.
I can't sat that i'm exited about the X games flavour that i'm seeing. I think tony hawk proved that nobody cares about jackass anymore. Perhaps i'm wrong but still Skate fans and serious rally fans don't blend to well in my opinion.
I think I'll try the new dirt but I'm holding onto my copy of the first game. I'm not ready to give it up yet.
played the demo, the truck racing was stupid.. it was weak as racing dump trucks in dirt 1
no hill climb, man? there goes my purchase..
man, NFS shift needs to be good to keep my busy while wanting for the REAL thing (GT5 12/4/09)
"Sadly, only about 20% of the events in Dirt 2 are pure time-trial rally races. "
wtf?!?!??!?!! That's what I loved about the original DiRT....
This game went to hell then..... sigh...
This 10x better then dirt one can't wait to go pick it up
Now codemasters get to Work on Grid 2