Latest sources are indicating that a demo for the upcoming mud spattered driving-fest 'DiRT' is due to hit Xbox Live Marketplace this Thursday! DiRT is the first Codemasters title developed with their own in-house 'Neon' game engine and early previews suggest this could be the Xbox 360's answer to the PS3 hit 'Motorstorm'. DiRT will offer over 40 licensed cars to throw around the tracks and crash through the hedgerows! No news yet on if this will be an online or offline demo, let's hope for a bit of both until we hear otherwise!
Steam has slashed 75% off of several Codemasters' racing titles including GRID, FUEL, DiRT, DiRT 2 and ToCA Race Driver 3 along with a bundle containing all five titles as part of its weekend deal promotion.
The first DiRT title was released just before McRae's horribly premature passing, and saw Codemasters essentially rip everything up and start again, giving the franchise a face-lift fit for the next-generation. It highlighted the tone of a series moving increasingly further from the realistic, 'pure' brand of rallying in the earlier games to a more arcade-orientated, thrill-seeking approach. Whether seduced by the bright-lights of, for example, Project Gotham Racing, or whether Codemasters were just seeking change for the sake of change lest creative stagnation take hold, DiRT 2 (yes the strange lower case 'I' is intentional) represents the consolidation of this new approach.
Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (Dirt 2 outside of Europe) is a racing game scheduled to be released in September 2009, and is the sequel to Colin McRae: Dirt. This is the first game in the McRae series after Colin's death. It was announced on 19 November 2008 and will feature the late Colin McRae as well as Ken Block and Travis Pastrana.
awesome, i look forward to it
shame its released at the same time as Forza
Two of my most awaited games a week apart.
BRING IT ON!!!
Great news!
"early previews suggest this could be the Xbox 360's answer to the PS3 hit 'Motorstorm'"
1. I thought this was going multi-platform?
2. Motostorm is an arcade-like racer. DIRT is simulation
No 'answers' ... just 'additions' and since the 360 doesn't have a decent off-road game, this is a welcomed 'addition'.