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.
The initial track seemed to have a looonnnggg loading time, but like the info it gave and when he had to restart the race the loading time was not bad at all
I still question the controls because of how crpy the guy was driving at first, but he may have been demonstrating physics of the spewing dirt being kicked up or something like he demonstrated the damage modeling. Its hard to tell if that was what he was doing since I don't speak his language and the video is not good enough to see the dirt on the ground. I did notice his second drive through was much better.
I must say based on very bad quality video that the game still looks pretty darn nice. The menu interface seemed nice too.
Between hours spent touring Oahu, Hawaii with Test Drive Unlimited and tournament qualifying attempts with PGR3, I know full well that DIRT and FORZA 2 will eat up any time I have left... in fact, I am certain Dirt & Forza will get the lion's share of my attention. Am I complaining? HELL NO!!! Bring 'em on!
Burnout 5 and PGR4 will not be slouches either. Then the possibility that Flat Out could be good.
I am not someone who can sit a play a driving game until done like I can a Shooter, RPG or action game but it looks like I will have to learn to be more dedicated. I already own TDU, PGR3 and have borrowed Ridge Racer. I want Burnout 4 but at this point I am waiting for it to be cheap and by the time that happens I will have probably 4-5 other racing games. And I STILL need to do much much more in both TDU and PGR3. Dang, it looks like I will be doing a lot of racing in the next year. These games all seem too good and too different to choose between.
Impressive choice of in-car camera shots alone, has got to be a plus when playing this game. And the surrounding areas have a nice look to it, and with a cool aray of trucks, buggies and rallye cars this is going to be one of those games that's going to rank-up there at the top.
will look good on ps3 ... but not so good on 360 .. trust me!