Product Description

Colin McRae, the series that has already sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, is now available on new generation supports! The traditional rally from the previous Colin McRae games remains, but spectacular, new off-road disciplines are now available too. Thanks to the next-gen Neon engine, the models of the cars and their driving have become even more realistic, with every bump and scratch from your course visible on the body of the car.  You'll be able to practice mastering handbrake turns and braking on gravel and mud in this all-terrain rally game. Colin McRae: DiRT takes the technical aspects of rally games further with this pedal-to-the-metal racing game on PS3! Over 40 cars, including 20 rally racecars: -4 wheel drives including Subaru Impreza, Citroën C4 and Peugeot 307 -2 wheel drives including Citroën C2 and Renault Clio -Classics including Toyota Celica and Peugeot 205 -Propulsions including Lancia Stratos and Renault 5 Maxi Turbo Rally championships: Six different rallies composed of 6 specials (race against the clock from point A to point B) and a Super Special where two cars race against each other on a two-lane track. A career mode made up of 66 challenges that alternate with the rally races with never-before-seen disciplines: uphill/downhill races, buggies, raid rallies... More than 60 tracks around the world: UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, USA and Australia. New off-road events where up to ten cars race against each other on the same track: 4x4, buggies, vans and even lorries! Includes the Pikes Peak racetrack, where you'll be at the wheel of 800-horsepower racecars trying to negotiate perilous turns at altitudes of 13,000 feet, without a co-pilot to give you precious help. Revolutionary technology, thanks to a new physical and graphic Neon motor: environments and vehicles are recreated down to the smallest possible detail

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #388 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters Limited
• Released on: 2007-09-14
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Original language: English, German
• Subtitled in: English, German

Features

• Colin McRae, the series that has already sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, is now available on new generation supports! The traditional rally from the previous Colin McRae games remains, but spectacular, new off-road disciplines are now available too
• Thanks to the next-gen Neon engine, the models of the cars and their driving have become even more realistic, with every bump and scratch from your course visible on the body of the car
•  You'll be able to practice mastering handbrake turns and braking on gravel and mud in this all-terrain rally game
• Colin McRae: DiRT takes the technical aspects of rally games further with this pedal-to-the-metal racing game on PS3! Over 40 cars, including 20 rally racecars: -4 wheel drives including Subaru Impreza, Citroën C4 and Peugeot 307 -2 wheel drives including Citroën C2 and Renault Clio -Classics including Toyota Celica and Peugeot 205 -Propulsions including Lancia Stratos and Renault 5 Maxi Turbo Rally championships: Six different rallies composed of 6 specials (race against the
• A career mode made up of 66 challenges that alternate with the rally races with never-before-seen disciplines: uphill/downhill races, buggies, raid rallies

Amazon.co.uk Review

It may be tempting to think of this simply as Colin McRae Rally 6.0, but for once a game has been rebranded not to divert attention from an aging and discredited formula, but because it really is a whole evolutionary step forward for the series. There’s now a far greater range of cars and race types than just point-to-point rallying, with everything from hill climbing to rally cross events included. The game’s also far less parochial than before, with plenty of officially licensed international rally tracks and competitions.

As exciting as all this may be though the game’s trump card is clearly its graphics. After what seems to have been an endless series of next gen disappointments this is one game that clearly could never have been done on the older consoles. The level of detail is incredible, both on the cars and the environment, but what really impresses is how interactive everything is. Pranging your car not only damages it realistically, but whatever you’ve hit as well, from roadside barriers to other racers.

The game’s other great triumph is ironically also it’s only serious flaw. The car handling is superbly realistic, but so much so that it actually makes getting anywhere in the game extremely difficult without an awful lot of practise (and ideally a good steering wheel controller). At least you can go online for a match against others at the same skill level as you though, which does help to avoid too much frustration and helps you appreciate what is probably the best next gen racer so far.
Harrison Dent

Manufacturer's Description
Colin McRae: DIRT is the most diverse and exhilarating off-road racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world over. Events include the series' intense point-to-point races and takes players further off-road than ever before.

Race in challenging heavyweight 850bhp cars, drifting on the loose gravel and high-speed blind corners of Hill Climb events along perilous cliff edges. All 12.4 miles of the world famous Pikes Peak International is included, with over 150 precarious turns to negotiate through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

How about engaging in multiple car races with Dakar-style trucks and super-powered 4x4s on the toughest desert terrain in Rally Raid competitions? Then there are Rally Cross events, switching between dirt and road racing, where the competition is always tight, fast and collisions with your opponents are inevitable. Colin McRae: DIRT also offers a dedicated mode for European, International and Global rally championships featuring official 2WD, 4WD, Classic and RWD rally cars.

Colin McRae: DIRT delivers the wheel-screaming exhilaration of off-road racing with the next generation of the series' sublime car handling and physics system and a devastating new damage engine that ensures players experience every bump in the track, every loose rock, every inch of shifting dirt through the reactive environments.

With an incredible range of off-road vehicles, thrill-packed tracks, modes that make the most of online multiplayer, and more varied events than any other single-championship rally game, Colin McRae is a bigger, faster, wilder racing experience.

Customer Reviews

pros and cons
Wonderfully detailed graphics ......but I still prefer the Colin Mcrae Rally Mac version.
I am not tied to one and the same level of difficulty. Meaning I can always put the game aside, and take it up again later, at a more manageable level. Once I have calmed down.
The controller is hopeless. Far too small, and after only a few tracks my hands and fingers cramp all over. I have to change grip every few minutes, usually resulting in a crash. I can only put in two hours or so a day of rallying, because of sheer physical exhaustion.
Manual gear shift? hah, no time for that.
And my hands are hurting.
There's no level below Rookie.
Voices are too American. On TV they usually are Finns, or Swedes, or whatnot. But never American.
A successful slide through a hair pin is such a joy. That combined with firming the front suspension and softening the rear suspension helped me enormously.

An absolute disgrace
This game could have been very good. It has a not bad career mode, six rallys each with seven stages and a host of other events. The controls are fully customisable, a must in any modern driving game, and you set the difficulty level before each event so if something is a bit too difficult for you or you just want to get through it easily you can choose an easier level.

But the graphics are an absolute disgrace. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't look too bad, it is the framerate that is the problem. I have a PS3, a modern state of the art games machine, so why are Codemasters releasing something so slow and jerky that it wouldn't even be acceptable on an old Atari ST? In the rally stages it is okayish but once other cars are on the track as well it is terrible.

This game slows down when you try to look behind you, almost locking up on occasions, it slows down if cars crash in front of you, which wouldn't be so bad if it was fast in the first place but it's not! At it's best I would guess it may get to 30fps but at it's worse I would bet it's not more than 10fps.

This of course affects the handling which becomes just as twitchy and jerky as the graphics are. And I'm sorry but in this day and age with the hardware I am using that is just not acceptable.

It seems to me that all Codemasters have done is port this over from other platforms purely to cash in on sales while they "develop" the next title in the series. All I can say is that if you buy this game get it second hand and don't pay more than £10.

Best rally game yet for the PS3
Well, I'm not all that far from completing this game in career mode and i must say that I've really enjoyed it. However, I wish they hadn't have used Colin McRae's name to sell it. Speaking as a fan of his previous games on the ps2 I had hoped that the WRC would feature in the career mode, hope the game wood feature his old imprezas or his WRC Focus but all you see is his name up on leaderboards throughout the game.

Also, I wish the developers could've changed the voice over for the uk game from the cheesy yank tones and phrases of travis pastrana as they grate more than a grinding disc on the face.

It would've been nice as another reviewer said to see stages in the country which has produced more rally heros than anywhere else, being Finland feature. Also, a snow stage or 2 in Sweden wouldn't have gone amiss.

On the flipside though there are some epic cars in it including three of the group B monsters of the 80's including the epic Audi Quattro S1 with its distinctive 5-cylinder engine note & busy turbo whistle.

Next time codemasters, let us see McRae & some of his old cars and lets hear Nicky Grist co-driving instead of some american cheeser that doesn't know that motorsport freatures corners in both directions!!

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