The embargo around DiRT is finally lifted, so Xboxyde releases three gameplay videos of it.
"You'll discover quite a lot of environments and a few game modes in there, and no doubt the majority will agree that this is a great looking game even if there is a lot of tearing and slowdowns in some modes. As for the gameplay, I guess you all tried the demo so you already know how strange the handling can be at time. DiRT sometimes feels like a simulation, sometimes like an arcade game and sometimes like a big 'WTF is going on?', very difficult to describe."
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.
Is it just me or are the bushes really cutting through the bonnet. That's a major technical issue. Hopefully Codemasters will iron it out before release, unless the game has gone gold already :S
Is that track with the Ferris wheel supposed to be the same one in forza? I know it’s a real world track since if you watch the credits from Forza it shows people standing on it so I am wondering if this is Dirt's depiction of it.
Also the demo was missing the direcions guy.
Nice, very nice...
It seems impossible to do powerslides in this game. And it's supposed to be a rally game...The cars behave like if they were made out of tin foil. Good graphics and all, but it isn't fun to play.
You have got to be sh***ing me!, that co-driver voice is total crap!!!
What ever happened to the one from the other C.M. games? You know, the one with the English accent, the one that sounded HUMAN and not like a robot from a 1950's B rate sci-fi movie!!!!!!!!