Colin McRae: DiRT 2

By Robert Purchese Published 2 September, 2009

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Colin McRae: DiRT 2

by Bert Bert

02/09/09 15:00

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Comments (39) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • JunglistVIP #1 2 years ago

    Thoroughly good guys
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/09 @ 15:34

  • Trinod #2 2 years ago

    Because people want a rallying game perhaps?

  • MaxHughes #3 2 years ago

    Thanks for answering my question :D

  • Scimarad #4 2 years ago

    Oh dear, I wonder if anybody will the ask the obvious "Why didn't you just call it 'Travis Pastranas Xtreme Dirt!' and be done with it?" And "Why can't we have a proper rally game?"

  • Forral #5 2 years ago

    "That's why no one watches Charlie Chaplin movies any more!"

    How utterly philistine.

  • Trinod #6 2 years ago

    I'm hoping for Charlie Chaplin Rally myself

  • Scimarad #7 2 years ago

    Wow, what a bloody ignorant comment THAT was...

  • Gnort #8 2 years ago

    Yeah, because the World Rally Championship has nobody watching it, so clearly people are only interested in an X-Games sideshow.

  • smokingslim #9 2 years ago

    Anyone know if they have the WRC tracks? There website says China, Malaysia, Morocco, Baja, and Croatia?? pls tell me thats not all.

  • minusblindfold #10 2 years ago

    I switched off the demo as soon as the other drivers started 'smack' talking mid race...I already have Mario Kart Wii so no need to get this...

  • Trinod #11 2 years ago

    The sad fact of the matter is, it's that sales that count. It was covered elsewhere that sales of traditional McRae games were dwindling and the original DiRT game bucked that trend. So if you are business in that situation what you going to do? Development costs are high these days, you arent going to make two different games to pander to two different audiences. You are going to make the game that maximises profit. You just cant please all of the people all of the time. McRae games used to be unassailable at the top of the rally tree, I don't hold that view anymore, the throne is vacant as far as I'm concerned, such a shame but perfectly understandable. I'll buy it, but if anything better comes along that is tuned into rallying roots then I'm jumping ship. Dirt 2 you are a whore.

  • Findus #12 2 years ago

    The way Codies have been developing their racing games of late I fear for F12010.

    Why do I feel we will get drifty F1 Cars and U.S commentary that says Shoe Maker.

    makes you think it will be a port of the F1 97 arcade mode.

    Ahh f197.... good times
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/09 @ 16:51

  • Spekingur #13 2 years ago

    @Von_Adder: If a comment like that stopped you from buying the game then obviously you had little interest in it beforehand.

  • monkeywithnoeyes #14 2 years ago

    theres no question that its moving more away from its british roots as a game, and indulging more and more into the american side of things - this is reinstated by the very poor, cheesy, in game chatter.. which is more suited to a tony hawks game than a british rally game.

    Dont get me wrong, i like the game, the game looks good, and plays well.. but its colin McRae in name only at this point.
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/09 @ 17:04

  • MvK #15 2 years ago

    Yeap, absolutely no one watches Chaplin anymore :/

  • X201 #16 2 years ago

    If its to look at motorsport worldwide, then there's even less reason to go down the Americanisation route.

    Perhaps they should watch Chaplin a bit more, and they might realise that you don't have to pretend to be American to be a success over there.

  • ubisama #17 2 years ago

    so he said in a Weasel Words manner: Nobody plays games in Morocco so we didn't include their flag and we don't care about players in this shitty country, except to steal photos from their environments and exploit them in our game. You should know sir that not everybody in Morocco lives in the middle of the desert like in the demo track.

    If the game doesn't contain the Morocco flag for driver profile, then I'm gonna get it for my mod modded Xbox 360 instead of buying it for my PS3, even if I own the Playstation Driving Force Pro wheel!

  • binky #18 2 years ago

    You go girl!

  • metalangel #19 2 years ago

    Once again decent questions were ignored in favour of stupid ones about killing animals and spectators and Maseratis.

    I guess I'll never know if it's possible to adjust the sensitivity of the steering (which is not in the options but could well be in the tuning screen which is locked in the demo), whether the AI (which brakes too much for corners) or Flashbacks (which would only let me rewind to just after the point of impact which meant I could only crash again) were unfinished in the demo, whether they'd ever considering making a straight rally-only game again.

    I suppose I should just count myself lucky they addressed the co-driver issue, though the explanation as to why it's gone all EXTREEEEEEEEME WOO WOO was very unsatisfactory.

  • laudy #20 2 years ago

    nonsense

    although with the nice shiny new hannah monatana audience codemasters are getting, the loss of custom from old fellas like me won't even scratch their radical surface

    cowabunga dudes
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/09 @ 17:36

  • Daymare #21 2 years ago

    That's why no one watches Charlie Chaplin movies any more!

    Well they bloody should!

  • superjag86 #22 2 years ago

    Anyone else think they've really reduced the number of rally cars and tracks/stages in DiRT2 compared to the first DiRT? The game is impressive, but I really enjoyed the quite large variety offered by the first DiRT.

  • TRUTH #23 2 years ago

    Hate this American X-Sportism. Rally was all about pushing the car & diving skill, Dirt 2 seems more push other cars out the way!!!...Hate all the trash talk in the game. The thrill of taking a perfect slide around the corner, sppeding up/across narrow cliffs - with serious consequences if taken wrong , jump and landing in dirt, watching carefully your car doesn't take major damage - taking a perfect corner, speed-danger-skill-dirt and knowing you have to push to beat a unkown time is what rally is.... Dirt 2 seems more to just get infront of the cars onscreen and stay there!!!...I think McRae would not have put his name on Dirt 2 - way to Xism and to over the top bling; all for the wrong...Bring back a proper Rally game.
    Edited by 2 at 02/09/09 @ 21:47

  • rmp29 #24 2 years ago

    Re:

    > "That's why no one watches Charlie Chaplin movies any more!"
    >
    > How utterly philistine.

    Sure, people still watch Charlie Chaplin movies - but hollywood doesn't make them any more, and would quickly go bankrupt if they tried to - hence this is a perfectly sensible analagy for Codies to make.
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/09 @ 18:46

  • kingofbergamo #25 2 years ago

    The low number of comments says it all. Shame I used to really like the series. I couldnt stand the demo and will not buy this one for a change. I hope they dont fu** F1 2010 as I have been waiting for a decent F1 title for years.

  • curtlikesmeat #26 2 years ago

    Is this going to be the trend now for new games, a DX9 version with possibly DX11 support but nothing for 10? Thanks for that Microsoft...

  • Syrette #27 2 years ago

    Can't believe how many people don't seem to understand how this business works, as sad as it is.

    They want to make money. It's just the way it is, but it's a shame.

  • Darren #28 2 years ago

    I still find it bizarre that the PC version of DiRT 2 has been delayed to add DX11 support. When the game is released in December I can almost guarantee that over 95% of people will be playing the DX9 version because only a handful of people will be insane enough to dash out and buy a £300+ graphics for ONE game!

    Given how poorly supported DX10 was for games after almost four years, why should anyone believe DX11 will fare any better? What's the incentive to buy new hardware upon release when it could be months, possibly years, before DX11 games become the norm? And why aren't Codemasters supporting DX10?

  • Rizzler1 #29 2 years ago

    this game is sweet cant wait for it to drop through my letter box :)

  • laudy #30 2 years ago

    During the demo, I thought that the x-games bods were providing commentary for the race...it turns out that they were supposed to be "trash talking"

    Excuse me, but how can a racer who is driving close to the edge, barging folk out of the way and trying to manage rough terrain, have a conversation like they're sitting round a coffee table?

    That blows dude

    Edited by 1 at 03/09/09 @ 09:23

  • Pac #31 2 years ago

    I quite enjoyed the demo but was not completely convinced.

    I quite like the mix of racing styles but although the handling of the rally car was OK, the bigger vehicle was even more floaty than I imagined it would be.

    Edge have given it an 8 so it might be worth a punt.

  • Pac #32 2 years ago

    Oh and for the record I predict with 100% certainty that Eurogamer will give it an 8 as well.

    For some reason the Eurogamer review is on the Shopto website before it has been published here!

  • WangFu #33 2 years ago

    The review on shopto appears to be the eurogamer review for the *original* DiRT, not DiRT 2...

  • metalangel #34 2 years ago

    @foreverafternothing : Look at many of the comments here - a lot of people do not like this game, either because of the actual gameplay or because of the 'extreme sports' emphasis. That's a lot of sales they won't be getting.

  • Pac #35 2 years ago

    @WangFu

    You are right it is! Does not say that on the Shopto Website though - cheeky buggers!

  • binky #36 2 years ago

    Just had a look at the official DiRT2 website, and it shows all event types. With those events its starting to feel much more like Rallisport2 but in new clothes. I think I'm being tempted here.

  • oreillymj #37 2 years ago

    @Trinod - i would argue that sales of DiRT and Grid were heavily influenced by the fact that they were the first set of titles on the PS3 and X360 and a huge step up visually from PS2.

    So naturally, people who had given up on the PS2 McCrae titles would be tempted to see what next gen could deliver.

    The presentation style or yank characters had fuck all to do with it.

  • zakrocz #38 2 years ago

    This will go on to sell millions, who gives a monkeys what you anti-american trolls think, certainly not codemasters, not me and not the following reviews. Read them and weep you big cry-babies. DiRT 2 FTW!!!

    9/10 - Official PlayStation Magazine - UK
    · “Dirt 2 is an unending highlight reel – prettier, faster, and always crazier than the real thing.”
    · “No racer handles better and few can match Codies for track design. This is very impressive stuff.”

    17/20 - Official PlayStation Magazine - France
    · "Colin McRae: DiRT2 impresses not only by how exhaustive it is, but also by its very polished graphics"

    9/10 - Official Xbox Magazine - US
    · “Dirt 2 is exactly the kind of great racing game we’ve come to expect from Codies.”
    · “Dirt 2 looks ridiculously good, handles like a dream, and is just plain fun to play.”

    9/10 - Official Xbox Magazine - UK
    · “DiRT 2 delivers drama in spades”
    · “Nails the fantasy of being a rally driver perfectly”
    · “Exceptional racing”

    93% Gamesmaster Gold Award - Gamesmaster Magazine - UK
    · “Better, faster, Dirtier!”
    · “An off-roader of the highest calibre”
    · “DiRT 2 is still the best handling rally game in the business”

    89% - PSM3 - UK
    · “A fantastic rally game wrapped up in extreme sports presentation”

    8/10 – Edge Magazine - UK
    · “Anyone could pick this up and feel like they were having fun”
    · “Codemasters is attuned to track-building and race-craft as it has ever been”

    93% - Xbox Games - Germany
    · “The most perfect off-road game ever”
    · “The presentation is top-notch... It looks thundering good”

    95% - FOK.NL - Netherlands
    · “The best off-road racer ever”

    90% - Gamepro - Germany
    · “In my opinion it’s the best racing game of this console generation”
    · “Colin McRae DiRT 2 is extremely motivating”

    87% - M! Games - Germany
    · "In every respect great off-road fun that attracts with great visuals, varied racing disciplines and beautiful presentation"

    8.6 - Games™ - Germany
    · “This rocks! McRae would have given his blessing”

    16/20 – Joypad - France
    · “A complete Colin McRae, with a really good realisation and especially suitable to every type of gamers, brilliant!”

    17/20 – Consoles+ - France
    · “Hit Consoles Plus” Award
    · “The exhilarating pleasure to devouring DiRT 2's lanes is just irresistible”
    Edited by 1 at 04/09/09 @ 08:50

  • Trinod #39 2 years ago

    @ oreillymj

    I think you make some valid points. First iteration of the CM Rally on a new fancypants generation of consoles is going to have more interest regardless of the direction it is taking. Does that make up for a lower installed userbase though. How many 'next generation' owners were there when DiRT came out compared to when CM 05 came out on the last generation? Wonder how well the traditional games sold in hammburgerland. At the same time Codemasters tell us "Colin McRae 2005 sold less than 2004, which sold less than Colin McRae 3, whereas DiRT sold well over double". If you were a business what would you do? I'd hazard a guess you would follow the money, Codies know that the CM name sells over here and they know X games and 'EXTREME!!' jivetalking sells in the land of Uncle Sam, so combine the two and chase the buck. This especially rings true when we consider that the Darlings sold Codemasters in 2007 to a capital venture firm, you think they are interested in anorak sensibilities? Its not about you or me, it about sales, if they piss off a few people that love 'normal' rallying but increase sales by garish adverts, ticking boxes on the back of the box and appealing to the biggest audience then job done.

    DiRT 2 is going to sell well for all sorts of different reasons. As regards the Americanisation of it, well i will have to like it or lump it. I've been playing CM games since their inception on the PS1, still have my original copy laying around...man i loved that game. Asides the obvious benefits the latest tech brings is the game format any better ...nope!

    GRID's a different kettle of fish, though I can see where you are coming from seeing as its an evolution of TOCA. I adore that game just the way it is. To me no game is about being realistic its about playing well