by Codemasters
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| Sales Rank: | 1065 (lower is better) |
| Price Used: | $17.45 |
| Shipping: | Free Shipping on most orders over $25* |
| Availability: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| Release Date: | 2007-06-19 |
| Label: | Codemasters |
| UPC: | 767649401550 |
| Binding: | Video Game |
| Published By: | Codemasters |
| ASIN: | B000OPPR7W |
| Category: | Video Games |
Dirt Features
- Real racing with real consequences. Stay in control or watch as your car dramatically crashes into a barrier and barrel-rolls, crushing every panel and spewing debris across the track.
- A wide variety of off-road and rally disciplines to experience: Rally, Hill Climb, Rally RAID, Rally Cross, the CORR desert series, and more.
- Photorealistic tracks painstakingly recreated from real-world location photography and satellite data.
- Incredibly detailed models of 46 licensed vehicles bring the action to life.
- Online play for intense multiplayer competition.
Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
Description
DiRT blends death-defying offroad action, precision control, and the tricked out intensity of street racing into one visually stunning motorsports masterpiece. Choose from a wealth of officially licensed cars and real-world locations, then go careening through gravel, dirt and mud, doing whatever it takes to bring the trophy home.
Customer Reviews
Great racing game--accessible to a wide audience - Reviewed on 2007-09-24
Dirt is a great racing game that features enough customization to cater to a wide range of fans. There are 5 difficulty levels on Dirt, each with varying amounts of realism, damage, and AI skill. Arcade racing fans can set the level on Rookie or Clubman (I believe that's what the 2nd lowest difficulty level is called), while more serious racers can ratchet up the difficulty for a more realistic experience. Dirt features several types of racing in a few different modes and a total of 46 available vehicles you can collect (along with several paintjobs for each), and for the most part is a pretty good game, though it does have some shortcomings. The good and the bad:
THE GOOD:
- Career Mode is great. There are 11 tiers of competition which expose you to all the various racing types in the game, and you can earn money from career mode to buy more vehicles.
- The races are fun and the control is great. Difficulty can be adjusted to suit your needs and the car can be tweaked if you so desire (but doesn't have to be if you don't want to mess with it).
- Several tracks offer quite a bit of variety, and the ability to race different classes of vehicles on most of them provides replay value.
- Great graphics, great sound effects when you drive or crash
- Upon completing a race your time is uploaded and you're given a worldwide rank based on everyone who has ever run the race. Nice touch.
THE BAD:
- Championship Mode is, ultimately, pointless. Sure, it's a great idea to have Championships of 15 or 30 races (or more if you choose the long option), but when you win a Championship you get no money, no trophy--not even a cutscene of any kind. Couldn't there be SOME kind of award, even if it was a new skin for the vehicle you won the championship in?
- Multiplayer lacks, both on and offline. First, there's no split screen multiplayer, which is annoying. But even online play is limited to only 2 kinds of events where you don't actually see your opponents but are only aware of their time relative to yours. This would be okay (and doesn't bother me that much), but communication between opponents is limited as well.
- The frame rate can suffer sometimes, though this doesn't happen often.
Dirt is a great game overall, but a few shortcomings keep it from being a spectacular game. Why not offer money or some kind of prizes in Championship Mode? And why not allow the XBox mileage achievements to be earned in other modes of play (you can only get the mileage in career), which might encourage more people to play online rather than playing the career over and over again? Still, if you're a fan of racing at all I highly recommend Dirt since it's few flaws are not enough to keep this game from being a lot of fun.
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