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the best dirt track racing game for pc

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this is the best dirt track racing gaame for your

pc. this is as close as you can get to the real thing with out driving the cars

Absolutely Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is surely the second best driving sim to Grand Prix Legends. Forget the fact that this game takes place only on Ovals and Dirt. This is sooooo much fun. With outstanding (and fast) graphics and a very realistic driving model this game will have you staying up till the small hours of the morning regularly. The sensation of speed is brilliant but probably even better is the way the game puts you right in the middle of up to 15 other cars so realistically. The AI is great. You run a little hot into the turns and somebody is sure to slip up the inside. Each race is different. Sometimes one driver clears out. Other times, 6 or 7 cars battle for the lead for the whole race. The cars handling is superb. You can steer the car with the throttle and with (hopefully) just the right amount of opposite lock balance the car through the turns. Just like the real thing! If you like sliding a rear wheel drive car you will love this game.

The Finest Racing Sim Ever...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Yes it is. Ratbag Games made Powerslide the most fun, but Dirt Track Racing takes the joy of PC gaming to a new level. The Program is bulletproof, airtight and fast. FAST! Even on a very modest PC or 3D card is generates very smooth frame rates at very high resolutions. The learning curve for enjoyment is tiny. Yet there is depth enough with the different cars, tours, tracks, and set-ups that you can still be improving your level of play for months of gaming.

The game can be played enjoyably with any quality joystick but with a wheel and pedal combo this really shines. But the real joy is the Best use of Force Feedback in any sim. In most racing games FF is an annoyance... a distraction. In the otherwise great Midtown Madness games the FF is 'canned' effects that make the wheel shake when you hit things. OK. In DTR and also Powerslide, the FF is generated by the same physics engine that drives the car. It HELPS you feel the track, the surface, the turns and other cars. Since the FF correspondes to what is actually happening it ADDS to the emmersion rather than just making your knuckles numb.

The damage modelling rewards racing but allows the demolition style of cornering if you can afford to pay for the repairs! The tracks seem similar at first but with greater experience you come to see that they are all very unique. The different banking, length, layout and surface make these tracks totally individual and challenging. I have even stopped off in my travels to look at the REAL tracks depicted. At Paris, Texas for instance the game depicts hills in the backround. It is actually fairly flat but the TRACK is exactly right. I mean EXACTLY.

And how can you go wrong spending ... for this level of quality? And Now you can find the still amazing Powerslide for ... These two games alone fully justify buying a ... expensive wheel and pedal and top drawer video card. But they can also be a boatload of fun on a cheap setup and together cost half of one inferior game.

Finally, though the 'Difference Engine II' make use of excellent textures and detailed models and looks great as is... Full Screen Anti Aliasing makes this approach photo realsim. I'm not trying to sell 3dfx products here... if you can make FSAA work in Direct3D on your GeForce or Radeon card you're in for a rare treat. If I were king of a video card company I'd have this baby bundled in every product I sell. Buy it, play it until your neck hurts from leaning over in the turns, and wait for DTR Sprint Cars!

Very addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have owned several racing and sim games but none have come as close to fully addicting me as DTR. I grew up watching dirt racers and feel this is as close I have seen. The way the game is set-up with career mode makes it impossible to stop playing. I also really like the sliding difficulty control.

Highlights for me are the poorly lit tracks and incredible differences between tracks. Each track has its own character. My only problem with the game is that I have not seen other cars crash to the point of being out of it. They are always pretty much together but they do jostle each other a lot. Great game!

Best Racing game available

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Dirt Track Racing is the best game available for the money! If fact I can't believe it's only $9.99... This is Late Model Dirt Car Racing at real tacks around the country. Down load X-font and all your favorite car bodies & dirt tracks from the internet. Create your own series and prize money. For added kicks adjust the competition AI's or go online and race real people! Just like the real thing! Only down fall is doesn't have replay like Sprint Car Racing. However, can't wait for Dirt Track racing 2 (6 stars) which should correct any down falls of this game which has very few. 5 stars!

Best Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Dirt track racing is easily the best racing game out there.The graphics are great and the car handles like the real thing.I would always recommend this game to anyone who loves racing.

A GAME WORTH MORE THAN ITS PRICE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can say that Dirt track racing is the best one out of all my computer games. From the stunning graphics to the awesome car models, THIS GAME ROCKS! Try the career. I like that when you're in the A MAIN,(on the career) You get to do a Victory Lap if you finish in 1st. My only problem is that, since I don't have a 100% compatible mouse, I can't see the mouse pointer. Anyway, JUST BUY THE GAME AND YOU'LL LOVE IT!

Very fun dirt racing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun to play, but the biggest problem I have with it is that when you bump into the back of other cars your engine goes bad real fast and I don't feel that is very realistic.

High Adrenaline

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a race game that I was looking for exactly.
Dirt Track Racing 1 is a in your face pedal to the medal balls out racing.

The physics are on the money. As good as NFS: porches unleashed. At first with your stock car you could almost floor it through all turns, but as you upgrade your pro stock you have to be carefully with the acceleration. Accelerate to fast or at the wrong time and you may put your car into an on wanted slide. I use a DualFirestorm gamepad with rumble and it works beautiful.
Sound affects are there and get the job done. No complaints. Damage is there but is nothing special. It has a minor inconsistency. But it doesn't bring the game down by no means. Rubber marks and dust are extremelly pentifull.

Now the career is full and very well laid out. After saving up for a pro stock, I kept racing my stock to save money and upgrade my pro. It worked out well and I am starting to come into some real good money. This will be my 4th season racing and if you go into career highlights you can see your improvement from first year to the last season that you completed. Good stuff.

Great game. ITs so in your face.

Make sure you have a wheel or 2 analogs to fully enjoy it, I recommend.

One of a Kind!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Once again, GT Interactive has produced a game unlike any other. This game takes racing to a new level. Anyone who has experienced dirt track racing first hand will appreciate the job done by GT to put out a game like this. Not only does this game have it all, it has it all at the low price that has become synonomous with GT Interactive games. Players can choose from stock, pro stock, and late model cars as well as a large variety of tracks from the simple oval to the challenging figure 8. Accumulate money from wins to buy new parts for your car and make your way through the season to become champion. Just another great product put out by the game developers at GT Interactive

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