No one will argue that the Colin McRae Rally series has consistently been some of the best dirt racing on any console year after year. And only a few less would argue that the series, despite its consistent awesomeness, has needed an overhaul for a few years now as well. Let's face it – navigating winding dirt roads at breakneck speeds is definitely exciting, but yearly updates and better graphics alone do start to get boring after a while.
And that's where Dirt comes in. Check out the written review and the video.
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.
I hate it when reporters use phrases like "no one would argue" and stuff like that. In this case, there's plenty that would. He actually goes to state that the handling is excellent. If you can go from 200kph to a dead stop in 3 feet on loose gravel, it's not too excellent. Also for a rally game, you do very little drifting. It's extremely difficult to instigate drifting at all. I think that it is all in response to the horrible reviews that the last one in the series got. The game was crucified for having weak brakes and too loose of handling. It's clear that they overcompensated this year. While the graphics are superb in this title (especially the first person views), the handling is garbage and therefore it is already collecting dust within my collection. 6.5/10 max overall score with extremely poor replay value.
the review was bad bad like donkey cr@p