![]() ![]() People have been picking apart the visuals of DiRT 5 and I can understand why. The downright DiRTy There are graphics issues No doubt there will be some DLC stuff down the road, too, though probably paid because this is Codemasters we’re talking about.Īlso bear in mind that upgrading to the Xbox Series X, Series S and PS5 version is free so you can enjoy higher resolutions and smoother frame rates than on Xbox One and PS4 without having to buy a second copy or wait until your new console arrives. Then again, the aforementioned online and split-screen multiplayer, global leaderboards and track editor all improve your chances of sticking around. With five chapters in the career mode, so many cars I couldn’t be bothered to count, ten locations and numerous challenge types, DiRT 5 may not be the most epic of epics but it thrills hard over a reasonable time. Not that anyone probably wants to play my not-so-epic bus jump creation, but it’s nice to know you could. That sounded better in my head.Īnyway, your ‘playgrounds’ as they are known can be shared with the world to enjoy or you can try out what others have made. ![]() While you cannot make a circuit in every DiRT 5 location, there are actually just three options, you can build something with enough jumps, flaming hoops, banked twisties, London buses and doughnut zones to make Ken Block unblock his bowels. Track editing was a thing, but that fad died out like dinosaurs, the Dodo and rational thinking. Although it is annoying you cannot check the leaderboard until you’ve finished a race and gone back to the career mode menu. In fact, I somehow got to the top of them and will be there for all of 10 minutes when the game comes out but it’s a nice feelin (sorry, DJS).įactor in split-screen multiplayer for up to four players and online shenanigans and I can see a lot of hours spent trying to be the best of the best of the best. It makes you competitiveīy being more accessible and more thrilling to play, I feel more inclined to challenge the leaderboards. It’s actually nice that hitting a barrier doesn’t end your race, although it will keep you out of the running for a record lap time.įor a game that could have been a Forza Horizon 4 wannabe, I’m pleased the reality is bright, bold and keen to entertain. I like that I can accidentally drive off a cliff one moment and go hell for leather up a very steep rock face in a ridiculous off-roader the next.Įven the more sedate road stuff is exciting because of the rapidly changing weather and lighting conditions and because each circuit tends to have a likeable flow to it. The circuit and stage design is great too. Avatar-esque Chinese mountains, steep roads of Brazil, sandy Moroccan desert – it’s all here and your eyeballs will lap it up like a cat to milk. It’s not just the handling that keeps me coming back, the locations in DiRT 5 are a little different from the racing game norm. In short, DiRT 5 knows how to deliver driving thrills. Most important of all, tarmac feels like tarmac as opposed to whatever it was trying to be in DiRT Rally 2.0. Despite being arcadey, the handling is intuitive and you have oodles of control. Yet there’s a reward for being precise and gentle. Slides are easy to save but difficult to maintain accurately while cars, each with a unique feel, like to be chucked around aggressively. That’s what DiRT 5 does well yet without being shallow. Do I want to spend tens of hours learning to drift a car and set it up correctly to do so? Sometimes, but sometimes I just want to pick up a controller and feel like a boss instantly. There seems to be this notion that a racing game has to be realistic to be fun and actually it’s usually the opposite. DiRT 5: The Squeaky CLEAN The handling is a blast If you’ve noticed DiRT 5 has a Forza Horizon vibe, that’s because the DiRT 2 team became Playground Games and that’s who developed the Forza Horizon series.īased on the gameplay, it would be fair to say that DiRT 5’s arcadey, accessible thrills are most akin to DiRT 2 and Onrush, which is no bad thing. So I then got a PC code and all was better, which means the following 10 negatives and positives have come from playing both versions of the latest Codemasters rally game.īut first an important bit of trivia. Oopsie, given that the release date is the 6th of November 2020. Without it, I was told, I’d be playing something not, “fully reflective of the build the public will get at launch”. ![]() I got offered a code for the Xbox One version, which was handy until they told me about a pre-release date patch two days before the embargo lift. Many keen eyes are already dissecting gameplay to see whether the Xbox Series X and PS5 are as capable as their respective companies claim. ![]() Ahead of my DiRT 5 review on Xbox & PC, here are 10 things I like and dislike about the latest Codemasters rally game.ĭiRT 5 is an important game because it’s a launch day next-gen title. ![]()
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