Eight racers compete on these tracks that often are short with a lot of turns and half and half off-road and tarmac. Rally Cross events kick racing into high gear in outdoor and indoor courses. Rally races take place in five different locations in Dirt 2 and each local does a great job to keep the pressure on you with the challenge of navigating through some brutal and often varied types of terrain. To win a Rally race you have to have the fastest time when you cross the finish line. The Rally races are point-to-point tracks with an audible co-driver giving you course notes. You also get to participate in "trailblazer", "landrush" and "raid" race types. The race types in Dirt 2 heads back basics with some nice "rally" and "rallycross" events. A few of the vehicles handling can be a little questionable, but when it comes to getting behind a Subaru Impreza WRX STI, Dirt 2 pulls no punches and feels right at home.
Compared to another racer like Forza Motorsport, Dirt 2 will feel a little loosey-goosey and over exaggerated, however slapped against some other arcade racing products, Dirt 2 feels like Forza.įrom the "casual" difficulty, or bumped up to the final setting of "hardcore", you should be able to find the racing expreince you expect out of a Colin McRae game.
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Dirt as a series is straying further away from its simulation roots into the wide-spread genre of the arcade racer, although we are thankful that it hasn’t made a full transition. The racing is as tight as ever, and now in its second next-generation outing, it looks as good as it drives. The Colin McRae series might not what it used to be which is alright because the new and improved Colin McRae has so much more to offer, so racing die-hards you might want to check your attitude at the door and examine Codemasters second offering o f Colin McRae: Dirt 2.ĭirt 2 might be filled with a lot more swooping graphics and radical vehicles liveries, but one thing it doesn’t shy away from is the core mechanics of racing. The Colin McRae series has been one of Codemasters most stable series over the years, and even though I have a fond place in my heart for some of the earlier, more pure versions of rally racing, the Dirt series has been warming up to me.
Big on atmosphere and high adrenaline, Dirt 2 has everything you want out of a racing game, and then more.
Following up Colin McRae’s brand name switch to Dirt, Dirt 2 brings another level of entertainment to the old Colin McRae series.