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After playing DiRT I wish I hadn't wasted my time with Forza 2. It's that much better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I liked Forza 2 and thought it was fun, but the game began to get old quick. With that I went and bought Dirt and dangit I wish I had skipped Forza 2 all together. This game not only looks a lot better, but the courses are fantastic, don't feel repetitive, and racing on the dirt, in the mountains, in the desert is 10 times more fun than the same lame tracks of Forza.

You just have to play it to see what I'm talking about but the stunning 1080p standard graphics just blow the 1080i of Forza 2 out of the water. GET IT YOU WON'T REGRET IT!

Good racing sim; fair review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: August 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This has been called the "prettiest" or "best" racer on 360 so far. I think Atari's Test Drive Unlimited is more involved, more open, larger, has more to do. EA's Burnout series is more fun. Those really aren't racing "sims" (in TDU the sim is actually the island, not the racing) but they're racers, so a comparison can be made. I suppose a better comparison is versus PGR and Forza. While I'm not sure that DiRT is any better than Forza2, it might be a bit better than PGR3, but PGR3 is a much older title so a better comparison might be when PGR4 arrives soon.

Criticisms:

- It is pretty, but I found some graphics issues I haven't found in other racers or other games. I can only call them "refresh" problems as I'm not sure what the actual problem is (I can only describe it as a visible squiggly translucent line coming down from near the top of the screen toward the bottom that looks like the frame rate or screen is refresh)...Again, if this is my 360, my 1080p HDTV, or the cables, it doesn't appear on other games, and I have tons of them.

- Any racer can be utterly frustrating. You drive for several minutes and right when you get toward the end, something goes wrong, someone hits you, etc, and you lose the race. It might take you awhile to learn to use the "reset vehicle" in this game to combat this (which feels like cheating).

- The gigantic career mode pyramid gives a false impression that these are all separate tracks. Many are reused.

- Extremely annoying co-pilot during rally races who shouts "left 3, right 4, left 5, 100, blather blather" (he sound like a quarterback before the ball is hiked) to try and tell you what's coming up. But these races go so fast that you're your brain will be switching back and forth within split seconds watching the race and looking at the map above to see where the next curves/turns will be, that also focusing on what this guy is saying is impossible or annoying. Is what he saying even accurate? Thankfully, you can turn this guy off in the options.

- It should be noted that "DiRT" implies off-road racing only. There are plenty of non-dirt tracks here.

- The ads show a lot of crashing, rolling and banging into other cars (because that looks like fun), but if you do that, you'll lose most of the time. Often, if you so much as gently touch another car, you spin off to the side while watching everyone else pass you. This isn't Burnout.

End Result: the combined press rankings are at 8.4 which is where Need for Speed Most Wanted ranks. I think that's a fair assessment. The critics rank Forza2 and PGR3 higher than DiRT with Need for Speed Carbon ranking much lower.

Look for Need for Speed ProStreet, PGR4 (with better dynamic weather effects), and especially the new Burnout: Paradise, with a more open world (like Test Drive Unlimited except you get to crash into `em).

Very Entertaining

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are excellent, and the damage effects make it very amusing, watching your doors fly off or swing open.

The controls could be better. The cars have a tendency to go crazy and spin out if you hold the stick to long, also the auto-vehicle reset can get very irritating, sometimes it makes since like when you fly off into a ravine on a rally event but sometimes in the track races it resets just because you cut a corner too much. It would be fine to prevent you from cutting across the track to cheat, but it makes no since around corners especially given the critique on controls earlier.

All in all very fun, long career mode prevents tracks from being repetitive and the number and variety of vehicles is amazing.

Good Game.. Attention to Detail!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game leaves Forza in the dust! I usually don't like racing games because they consist of the same old thing. However, this game brings more to the table. Simply the best racing game since Sega Rally! This is NOT another generic racer! You will love it! OMG = 1080p!!Geeze...so pretty..!

THE GAME IS OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: July 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

LOOK THIS GAME IS OK I THOUGHT THAT THIS GAME WAS GOING TO BE A GREAT GAME WHEN I READ THE REVIEWS THEY MADE THIS GAME GAME SOUND GREAT BUT ITS OK I PLAY MOTOR STORM ON MY PLAY STATION 3 AND ITS A BIG DIFFERENCE BUT DIRT IS NOT THAT BAD OHH AND THAT GUY THAT TALKS IN THE GAME TALKS TOO MUCH WAY TO MUCH

This is NOT a multi-player game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My family is competitive and loves to play Xbox 360. It's important to me to get games with multi-player options so no-one is relegated to spectator.

What a disappointment! If you own two or more joysticks or racing wheels (as I do) this game does NOT allow for side-by-side multi-player gaming.

It's a great game, otherwise.. but unless you want to buy multiple Xboxes or scatter your family to the web, it's strictly one player per box.

Dirt is ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

there's a good varity of vheicls but not many tracks for each disaplin. the phyisics are ok they tryed to take arcade stily and make it feel lik a sim game but it just didn't work very well. some of the rally cars almost force you to drift even on the slightest corners or you woulnd end up off the course. the online play is terable. you can't make you own rooms, and you can only do rally races. you can't do curcit races online so you never see who you playing you just try to beat there time to the finish. you can't even play split screen or system link it. over all i say this is an incomplete game. it was way too short i beat it in about three days maybe playing for about 2 to3 hours at a time.

Pretty awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was excited for this game after playing the demo. I can say that it met if not exceeded my expectations.

Pros: Extremely realistic graphics and damage. cool soundtrack and long career mode

Cons: Really annoying passenger in your car, had to turn down the volume to shut him up and now I miss out on some things I actually want to hear. Long Load times. And, it's a little hard. I guess I'm not a real racing game fan, but I'm finding it surprisingly difficult on the easy setting. Guess it will make it last longer though

In summation, it's got some issues, but the game is just so sweet that I still have to give it five stars. I mean, it just looks incredible

DiRT ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game ROCKS! The races are pretty awesome, and have difficulties for any skill driver. The damage graphics are by far the best I have ever seen, and the vehicle choices are nice. The multiplayer isn't that good, but I never play the multiplayer. It took me only about 7 hours to beat it on rookie, but it may take longer on higher difficulty. Overall, this game is great!

Freakin Sweet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Some of my bros are a lot more savvy with video game terminology than I am and they came over to play some 360 and were stoked on this game. They are avid gamers and couldn't stop talking about the graphics, the interface and the mapping. I don't know a whole lot about games in technical terms but this game is Freakin Sweet!!!

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