Product Description

• Huge Variety of Race Styles & Format
• Features intense solo races and frantic multi-car events with up to 12 individually styled cars in each race
• 100+ off-road racing events including rally, rallycross, raid and trailblazer
• Players are no longer constrained to traditional rally racing as the game boasts a roster of contemporary off-road events
• Intense Real-World Environments
• Colin McRae: DiRT 2 boasts 9 varied real-world locations throughout the game to create a virtual DiRT World Tour with cultural styling and brands to make each location unique
• Players will travel the globe in an RV that will aesthetically improve as players progress in the World Tour
• Up to 120,000 spectators per track to bring the locations to life
• Award-Winning Technology
• DiRT2 is powered by the third generation of the EGO Engine racing technology
• Updated car-handling physics system and damage engine effects
• Unprecedented visual fidelity with cars and tracks twice as detailed as seen in GRID
• Full Online Functionality
• Supports full online multiplayer across all racing genres
• Features head-to-head competitive online play and new social features to further engage the racing community
• Online tournaments and downloadable content keep the player engaged in the DiRT experience

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters Limited
• Released on: 2009-09-11
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Number of discs: 1
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Dimensions: .55" h x 5.32" w x 7.48" l, .24 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Colin McRae: DiRT 2 will take players on a World Tour of adrenaline-fuelled extreme off-road events in stunning real-world locations. Events include exhilarating rally cross in the massive Los Angeles sports stadium’s “Stadium King Shootout”, edge-of-control canyon racing of Utah’s “Creek Trailblazer” event, the “Rawang Rally Run” along treacherous Malaysian rainforest tracks and the “Battersea Battle”, where night races are staged at the iconic London power station. Building on the technical and gameplay benchmark of Colin McRae: DiRT and borrowing from snowboarding and skateboarding lifestyle and culture, Colin McRae: DiRT 2 will also add full online multiplayer functions to extend the gaming experience and build a thriving community.

• Huge Variety of Race Styles and Formats
– Features intense solo races and frantic multi-car events with up to 12 individually style cars in each race.
– 100+ off-road racing events including rally, rallycross, raid and trailblazer
– Players are no longer constrained to traditional rally racing as the game boasts a roster of contemporary off-road events

• Intense Real-World Environments
– DiRT 2 boasts 9 varied real-world locations throughout the game to create a virtual DiRT World Tour with cultural styling and brands to make each location unique
– Players will travel the globe in an RV that will aesthetically improve as players progress in the world tour
– Up to 120,000 spectators per track to bring the locations to life

• Award-Winning Technology
– DiRT2 is powered by the third generation of the EGO Engine racing technology
– Updated car-handling physics system and damage engine effects
– Unprecedented visual fidelity with cars and tracks twice as detailed as seen in GRID

• Full Online Functionality
– Supports full online multiplayer across all racing genres
– Features head-to-head competitive online play and new social     features to further engage the racing community
– Online tournaments and downloadable content keep the player engaged in the DiRT experience

Customer Reviews

Dirt 2, the most fun driving game ever?
This is the first time I've submitted a review about a game, I felt the need to after reading some of the other negative and misinformed comments on here.

I have never bought rally driving games before as tended to go for the driving sim style like Forza and Grand Turismo.

The best way to sum the game up is FUN FUN FUN, there are loads of varied beautiful looking tracks and cars, plenty of game options and excellent online multiplayer options

You can mess about with the car settings if you want but TBH get a life and just play the damn thing, the cars barrel along the tracks a break neck speed and when you inevitably bin it in to the crowd/rock face/barrier, just rewind the time and try again.

The cars handling are somewhere between arcade and simulation style, once you get used to hand breaking round hairpins you'll soon be picking up those first places.

When rally driving the co driver is clear and concise and I found that it really helped me get round the track faster.

You cannot apply the same logic you use to play sim racing games to this game, It's different, looks fantastic with no frame rate issues, plays beautifully and is just so much fun to pick up, jump in and tear up some dirt..... Yee haaaa!

If you want a sim go buy Forza 3, If you want laugh out loud driving fun? BUY THIS GAME NOW!!!

DiRt 2
I have been playing around on this game none stop since its imminent arrival through the post very early yesterday morning, and I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised with the overall quality. I am one of the people that has been following the Colin McRae games since the original on the PlayStation, and so have grown familiar to the European style of rallying down dirt tracks with a co-driver reading out the instructions. Since the original Dirt game of this generation, however, Codemasters have decided to push away from this to a more Americanised X-games style of off road racing. This isn't really a bad thing as previous McRae games have felt a little disjointed from the action - especially in the more recent years. This time, you are well and truly in the thick of the action, and the game really makes you feel it.

First of all the menu's this time take place around the crowds where you will move the camera around your trailer, where you select your tracks, to your garage where you keep all of your cars, and also select your courses from the map that is laid out on the table in your trailer. This sounds like a very simple addition, but you will be surprised by how much more involved you will feel, and it really keeps you going. You get phone calls to your mobile from other drivers who will fill you in on all the latest on racing, cars and countries, and you will also be able to modify your cars with everything the outer pain job to dashboard items and even furry dice that hang from your mirror.

The gameplay has been improved a great deal this time around. Codemasters have clearly listened to fans thoughts and complaints from the original game, and I think the Grid outing has also helped in the further development of how the cars control. They feel much more real this time, with just the slightest bit of movement needed to make your way through corners. It takes a great deal of concentration, particularly on the rally raid tracks, but although at first feeling a little difficult you will quickly get to grips with it, and it is definitely a less arcade feel with the controls.

On the other hand, the way the game is laid out, IS more arcaded. You will follow all of the different types of events, through the world tour - going from country to country in all sorts of different vehicles and climates. You can go to China, Croatia, Japan, Morocco, California, London, and many more, and in this sense there is a very wide variety. There are buggies, vans, cars, and all of the customization for each of them, so there is a lot to get to grips with. However, you do jump from one style to the next very easily, and I have not yet found a Championship mode like there was in the original Dirt, so there isn't really an option where you can choose one racing style and go through a championship series. The career mode is what you get - and it is done very well, but it would have been nice to have been able to follow each mode separately a little bit more.

The graphics are excellent - and I really mean excellent. Each blade of grass is visible and they blow in the wind (not that you can tell when you're driving along at 70mph, but they move), and the level of detail in the terrain, weather, lighting and track design is phenomenal. It really is something special to look at. It runs smoothly, with no slow down whatsoever.

Overall, this is a great game. A little too Americanised for my liking, but it doesn't "ruin" the game as some people have said online. Some of the music is a little questionable at times, they have clearly gone all out to make this game "extreme", but the variety involved in the gameplay is incredible, and really makes up for the minus points. There is an online mode where you can race against your friends, which I can't comment on as I have yet to try it out, but I have heard good things from friends. All in all, I recommend this game very highly. There is plenty to do, and it is genuinely good fun to play. Rest assured, you will get hours of pleasure from this game.

Codies Best Yet...
I've had this game for a couple of days now, after downloading the demo, and I have to say I'm finding it difficult to find fault with it. It's as close to being perfect as a racing game based entirely on off road events can be. Superb.

As for the reviewers that have said that it isn't "simmy" enough, that's their preference. For the vast majority of people like myself, it's been pitched in exactly the right area, and it's simply a lot of fun with a capital F.

You will not be disappointed if you buy this. I promise!

RIP Colin...