![]() Trying to adjust your car to remain dead straight on a straight could easily see you accidentally veer off road. That said, it’s a good job that the rewinds (called Flashbacks here) exist, as the controls of the game are sometimes a tad too responsive for their own good. As you’d expect for a rally game there’s a co-driver giving you instructions on what’s coming up soon, and at high speeds it really feels like you could fly off track and ruin your time or force a rewind - a feature which I love but I still feel is tantamount to cheating. Your time across various courses is added up to become your overall total, which in term determines how well you fare against the computer.įor a racer which puts often becomes so much about the times and numbers it’s amazingly exciting on-track. ![]() The marrying of these seemingly disparate elements is the true triumph of the DiRT series, and the all the justification Codemasters will ever need for breaking away from the more traditional rally settings the Colin McRae games offered in the past while still keeping a firm hold on some of the basic tenements of rallying in the events and cars available.īecause it’s about rallying, DiRT 3 is rarely about competing against others directly – instead, it’s all about course run-times and the pixel-perfect turns and drifts that will shave inches off a corner and milliseconds off your lap time. ![]() ![]() Over the years we’ve created the likes of Project Gotham Racing, Need for Speed Shift, Destruction Derby and others, and one of the top studios out there for racers is Codemasters, the Midlands-based studio who created the DiRT series and its predecessor, Colin McRae Rally.ĭiRT 3 continues down the well-beaten path that the first two titles in the series laid out already, a delicious mix of simulation and arcade racing that in the end is neither, a strange love child of the two genres that has all the terrain effects, damage and real cars you’d expect from a sim game mixed with ridiculous over-the-top handling and drifting you’d expect out of a big fat arcade cabinet blasting cheesy rock music. ![]()
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