Start off in fledgling events and race your way up to mix it with the pros in the X Games. Play as a rookie determined to make your name in off-road racing. 9 from me.DiRT 2 is based around a career mode. There's also a lot of time to be spent in DiRT, whether you're competing against the AI, which is fine, or real-life opponents online. It's more difficult, but still worth it when you start to know the tracks and get those perfect sliding turns. I'm giving it 8.5 out of 10 rubber chickens. It does have the extras though, there's a pretty good alternative rock soundtrack, and all 'round it's another masterful rally game. Although most of your races will be full of little knocks and bumps that slowly degrade your car, forcing you to use a different KIND of rewind. To me that seemed like a street racing thing, and I've long thought street racers have lost their way, by concentrating on the girls AROUND the cars, and some kind of bad boy nightlife, rather than focusing on the cars and tracks themselves.īut a welcome carryover from street racing, is the rewind feature from their last game, Racedriver GRID. Yeah and it's just goodnatured banter but they shouldn't have bothered with it. Yeah they've got voicework from top racers, and the tutorials they give are good, as well as the nicknames they call you. I wasn't too big a fan of other racers talking to me mid-race though Baj. Yeah, the standard Rally mode is something Colin McRae games to really really well, and DiRT 2 has improved navigators, as well as seeing other cars on the track compared to how well you're doing. There's also Domination mode, where tracks are divided into sections, and the winner is the one who can win in the most sections.īut some classic modes have been reworked and improved as well. There's new modes as well, including a Gatecrasher mode where you'll smash through as many barriers as you can which each add 2 seconds to your time limit, and the racer with the highest limit at the end wins. You can change the difficulty each race for for cash and experience.even on Casual difficulty this a "don't make 1 mistake" kind of game, but it's realism stops short of boring stuff like having to pay for repairs. Same with the accelerator, and you really notice a difference in how that punishes you on the different surfaces, from the narrow, gravelly tracks of Croatia, to sandy Baha, and even the streets of Shibuya. Driving also seems a little less forgiving on the turns, and you'll have to ween yourself off that tendency to push the joystick all the way to the side, and practice slight movements. Yeah, not to mention the cars themselves. It was hard to believe they could improve on the first DiRT in the looks department, but they've done it. But rather than take a different direction, the latest in the franchise is a tribute to the racing legend, and Colin McRae DiRT 2 pays plenty of homage.Įvery now and then a game comes along and suprises you with how good it looks, and DiRT 2 will render scenery that makes you proud of your hardware, be it 360, PS3, or PC. Shortly after, Colin McRae himself died tragically with his son in a helicopter accident. Several years ago, Codemasters released a masterpiece of rally racing realism, in the form of Colin McRae: DiRT.
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