Fun to play... but for how long? It feels too goofy and arcade-like for me to get into. Forza over this any day

User Rating: 6.3 | Colin McRae: DiRT X360
By dirty55409 | Review Date:
The game is beautiful for sure. I have enjoyed all 2 hours of it that I've played. But besides the various vehicles you can drive nothing makes this stand out from the rest for me. I've played everything from Gran Turismo 4 to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 and games like Forza Motorsport 2 and Project Gotham, Test Drive Unlimited (gag), Midnight Club Racer, all sorts of racing games are in my collection, the point is Dirt may fill in the Off Road gap but for $60 it's not going to be more than a rental. Dang why couldn't they put rally racing into Forza 2 and make it look as beautiful as this game!?!? Oh well, aside from the beauty of the game the audio is a joke in my opinion. The engines may all sound different but they all sound incredibly anemic and they don't add to the realism for me. When I choose an outside racing view I don't want to hear the engine blasting me in the face, I only want that if I'm in cockpit view. Another qualm with the audio is the idiotic voice of Pastrana or whatever his name is. He is a terrible rally driver in real life (go look at his last wreck) and he is an even worse narrator. If this was a rally sim it would've been more realistic instead of having such a tight highly unrealistic feel to it.

The games not hard to pick up but it may get more challenging in the long run, I'll never find out because I won't be playing this for very long.

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