DiRT- Great Game, shame about the multiplayer. Read if you are looking to buy for these aspects.
But I won't go into that. You can read that in the main review.
This review is mainly aimed at the 360 version. But I think it applies to all of them.
What I will say is that I own the first 2 Colin McRae games on the original Playstation, and by god they were good.
My favourite bit was how you could easily jump into a multiplayer game ON THE SAME CONSOLE. You know, two people, racing each other, split screen. Before anyone had even thought of online play.
This is where DiRT doesn't deliver.
DiRT is, in essence, a game to play with other people. All racing games are. You get bored with racing AI cars.
Yet DiRT doesn't let you play against other people. Oh yes, it says you can play with system link. If you have two systems. Unlikely. Oh, and you can only play 2 disciplines like this.
Or you can play over Xbox live. But that doesn't mean you can play with friends. They might not even have the console, let alone the game or Xbox Live (or similar for other consoles).
So.. My biggest disappointment. One of the biggest let downs in racing game history, in my opinion.
WHERE IS THE SPLIT-SCREEN RACING!!!!?!?!?!!!?!?!!
Nope, it doesn't have any.
A quite honestly wasted game.
Which could have been so good. THIS is where the originals shined. How the series became the greatest rally series ever. But failed when it hit this point.
Thankyou, Codemasters. For giving us a game which fails to do what every other big racing game does to date. Let 2 mates race each other on one TV, on one console. I would accept graphical downgrading for this, anything.
But instead, we get nothing.