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Wonderfull scenarios, low driving realism

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I loved Collin McRae Rally for PC. The scenarios are wonderfull, sometimes it seems like a movie, not CG. Unfortunatelly the driving miss realism. The car's damage simulation are fine but driving feels like the car is floating, it is very difficult to keep it on the road and light turns on the wheel makes the car slide like it was over ice. Compared to Forza Motorsport, Forza is much better in the driving simulation, even without a racing wheel controller you can feel more control over the car. I'd give it 10 for the graphics and car damage simulation but only 5 for the driving simulation.

Arcade upgraded

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Very good Graphics and handling for an arcade game, fun for a pro gamer and racing fan. better played with racewheel. 10++ for my taste. Like the way the cars get dirt, landscapes are amazing and very detailed. The swtich camera types like no other games, inside the care seems very realistic when driving and makes you see games racing in other level...

Played, Tested, enjoyed...

Pretty Realistic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've never been big on racing games and I've owned only a few over the years (Extreme G on N64, Gran Turismo 3 on PS2, Wipeout Pure on PSP). When I saw some footage of this game I immediately became intrigued. The physics are spot on and the damage to your vehicle looks realistic. This game has some nice features, such as your stats during loading screens. I haven't gotten very far in it, but it is definitely challenging and will keep your attention for quite some time. The graphics look very polished and the sound really immerses you in a realistic racing experience. I've not had any framerate issues or texture popping. This is a very solid racing game.

Great racing game--accessible to a wide audience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Very fun and addictive. Good for racing beginners.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've never been into racing games, but Dirt appealed to me. Tried it, loved it, bought it. Since I have no experience since "Rad Racer", I appreaciated the learning curve on "Rookie" setting. The diversity of the tracks and vehicles break up the monotony of "ovals 'round the world" that turned me off most racing games. The graphics are amazing, the sound excellent, and the menus are intuitive and stylish. I have a friend who is a racing game FREAK, and he loved it right away. He didn't have an XBOX, and he went right out and bought one so he could play it. So, if you're at all intrigued by this game, just buy it, and you won't be disappointed.

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.

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.

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).

Fun, but not realistic at all.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is pure arcade. But it's fun tho. The default difficulty is just right for me that I average 2nd overall and usually finish a race on first or second try. Damaging your car is also fun. Lots of parts come off he car until you see the engine and the wheels falls off. Many different view points. I especially like driving the slow support trucks, which you can magically get it to right side up if you're tipped over 90% as long as the side doesn't touch the ground haha. Buggies are fun too. The super car uphill climbs are also great, you can feel the speed. Graphics is one of the most amazing for the XBox. I would say this is way better than Sony's MotorStorm.

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!

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