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Neon engine to drive McRae's DIRT

Code built from the bottom up will power next-gen rally game from Codemasters.

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Codemasters Studios is touting its new Neon game engine, stating that the upcoming Colin McRae game, Colin McRae: DIRT (known as DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road in the US), will be using the all-new engine.

Today's update on the game engine explains why the next game in the series has taken so long to hit the shelves--Neon has been in production for 18 months.

Colin McRae Rally was released in 1998, and a series of sequels followed--but the last game, Colin McRae Rally 2005, was released more than two years ago.

DIRT will feature a range of off-road race events and more than 40 officially licensed cars from 12 categories, including Colin McRae's prototype R4 and Travis Pastrana's Subaru Impreza.

Colin McRae: DIRT is due in 2007 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

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this game looks so chill!

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I'm waiting to hear some confirmation of force feedback support for the 360's wireless racing wheel. That's my dream.

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Nice ! i hope for a good engine!

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is it just me or the pictures are a crappy??too much blur...

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Motorstorm is going DOOOOWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!This game looks sooooo good, I can't wait till more info is released

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this new engine looks too good i think that will be the best rally simulation

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Motorstorm will mop the floor with them

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Rallisport Challenge 3 please......Oh yea, Wait, EA bought Dice and dismantled the production team. Well i guess we all have to settle for this. yayyyyyy! Go Colin McRae!!!!! didn't like any of your other games but yayyyyyy i got faith this time!

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Tragedy that we're not getting a rallisport challenge 3 but theres a chance this game could make up for it and rekindle my love of colin mcrae that started 9 years ago!

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The graphic looks superb!!!

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This is great news

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can't wait. about time a rally game made a return to the xbox

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This game should be sweet, but where's Rallisport Challenge 3? The second one was a huge hit. I can't believe they aren't making a third.

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This is the way racing games should look. I am tired of the need for speed and other crappy graphic engines that only make the cars look good, but the enviroments look like they would on a playstation.

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This game is looking like it is going to be amazizizzing

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I buy the PC version for the mods, and if this has Starforce like 2005 than I'm not buying it either. I loved CMR 3 and 04. Stop using that crap Codemasters.

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That game looks absolutely amazing. Can't wait!

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Colin McRae....yay?

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I don't usually play these types of games but if it gets a good review then I may buy it.

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Sweet! =)

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This is gonna be good!!! *moving hands together*

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