DiRT anyone???
Got a 9/10 rating
Anyone tried it? Your impressions???

XBOX
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/driving/di...=result;title;0
PS3
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/driving/dirt2/...=result;title;1

I played the Demo for about 30 minutes yesterday. Nice visuals, good FFB implementation, and a LOT of fun. But very "arcadey" physics. It's the off road version of Grid, IMO.

Which would stand to reason because GRID was the circuit track version of DiRT...

It seems that they've really gone for the crazy balls-to-the-wall, seat of your pants, white knuckle experience of off road racing and put the "realism" into the backseet. Which, for a game like this, might just be where it belongs. I love hyper-realistic games, but when it comes to off road games, sometimes it is better to have something be much more forgiving so that it can also be much much more fun.

I got it today, now i'm not a big gamer, i'm certainly no expert, but i simply can't stop playing it, i love it, the best racing game i ever played... best rally game... i was thinking wether i should get it or not, because some games can be very hard, even when you set it on easy, but this is pure fun, it's tricky as a rally race should be, but still it's not something that you would have to spend days if not weeks in order to get a decent run.

I love specially the rally car part, where you just go like at WRC... you got a co-driver talking you throu it, very fun, and the visuals are very good, nice graphics, nice sound as well.

I am now glad that codemasters got the right to make the f1 game and the motogp it seems.

Loved DIRT, can't wait to play DIRT 2 on PC. Too bad they delay it for DX11 support.

It seems all too American for me... it seems to have lost what it was meant to be.

I think Dirt had the right balance of arcade and realism, and traditional rallying and alternative forms of rallying... but Dirt 2 has just gone too American and arcadey for me. The cars don't look like WRC rally cars anymore, the focus seems to be slipping from point to point rallying to other types of rallying... and I just don't see how it's really anything McRae really did too often. Yes, he did the X Games a few times, but that is no excuse to suddenly change the focus to an X Games type experience.

I think McRae's name needs to be taken off of the product. The brand could easily survive as just Dirt.

Oh, and Travis Pastrana's voice winds me up like hell

Seriously, it's so American (sorry, I can't think of a better way to describe it) it is really quite off-putting. Not to mention when drivers are talking to you whilst you're driving. My favourite one is when Travis goes "Yo, everyone's quiet! What's up?", or something along those lines. Ridiculous, I think.

CM 2005 was a little too focused on point-to-point rallying (but still an awesome game), CM Dirt was a little bit too quick of a step away from traditional rallies such as Finland (but still an awesome game), but CM Dirt 2 has just gone a step too far for me.

Please note: When I say American, it is by no means meant as an insult. When I say it, I mean it is generally geared too much towards the American market as opposed to the European one. A balance should be found.

Bought it last week and it has a lot of good things, but I think I am done with it. I have reached level 22 by now...

Graphics and sense of speed or so good... Better than Gran Turismo.....

But there is not really a challenge. Still driving the first car with succes and loads of money.

Can't tune a thing.

Yeah that's the one thing i wish it had more, the WRC type rallying there, instead you get alot of the x games type of events.

I think it would be really great if they took the graphics and gameplay that they use on dirt 2 and make WRC, where you just go the european way... with your co-driver talking and so on, and in many different places...

Really hope that codemaster would also make a WRC game.