Had a go at both of them today at work(on the x360), and they both are really great games. But in saying that, there both good games in there own rites. I mean there not the same type of car game to start with, and made by different company's. You have EA on one hand and code masters on the the other. I also catched the steering wheel on both to.( Microsoft barnard).

NFS Shift:

The game is more based around the sim racing ****of things. It does have that GT feel about it, which did make me like that little bit more. But in saying that it hasn't tried to copy GT in anyway. And playing on your standard X-360 controller was fine. But when i put in the the wheel, well, that made it a hole lot of fun. I think its good, and problem better with the wheel souly because it has that ****c arcade feel to it.

Dirt 2:

This game like the past game in the series is more off road, drift sort of game play. Which is always fun to play, plus the damage on the cars is great. Which always adds to a car racing game, well i would think. Playing this on the standard controller was really fun, and you could get rite in to it. But the wheel...well lets just say didnt finish the races as fast as i would have liked. But that could be just me being not very good.

Look on a hole i think if you buy NFS or Dirt 2, you will be happy to play both.!!!