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Watch: Dirt 4 gameplay reveals what's new in Dirt 4

Plus more from Outside Xbox.

Welcome to your weekly sampler of the last seven days at Outside Xbox, where we've been getting revved up for Dirt 4.

Dirt 4 is the next full-fat instalment in the best rally series in videogames. After Early Access game Dirt Rally found success by appealing to people who want to be punished by massively challenging simulation handling, Dirt 4 aims to cater for hardcore rally sim fans and more casual players alike. Here's everything you need to know, illustrated in new gameplay.

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Also on our minds this week: quick time events. A QTE is usually a simple button-pressing mini game that lets you pull off something cool with relative ease. In order for these interactive cutscenes to actually be interactive, though, there has to be a consequence for when you fail to hit that button - such as an humiliating pratfall.

Consider these times you failed a QTE and wound up looking like an hilarious dummy instead of a cool action hero in the following video.

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Finally this week, we have new Sniper Elite 4 co-op gameplay from the Xbox version of Rebellion's latest gruesome sniping game, with its X-ray kill cams and exploding vital organs.

Witness our co-op gameplay from the second level of the campaign, Bittanti: a small Italian fishing village that's about to get awfully messy.

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