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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Codemasters
EAN: 0767649401550
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: Codemasters
Manufacturer: Codemasters
Model: 116713
Platform: Xbox 360
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Sales Rank: 1051
Studio: Codemasters

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Product Description:
Racing can be downright dirty! DiRT blends death-defying offroad action, precision control, and the tricked out intensity of street racing into one visually stunning motorsports masterpiece. Choose from a wealth of officially licensed cars and real-world locations, then go careening through gravel, dirt and mud, doing whatever it takes to bring the trophy home.



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Wonderfull scenarios, low driving realism
I bought this game because I loved Collin McRae Rally for PC. The scenarios are wonderfull, sometimes it seems like a movie, not CG. Unfortunatelly the driving miss realism. The car's damage simulation are fine but driving feels like the car is floating, it is very difficult to keep it on the road and light turns on the wheel makes the car slide like it was over ice. Compared to Forza Motorsport, Forza is much better in the driving simulation, even without a racing wheel controller you can feel more control over the car. I'd give it 10 for the graphics and car damage simulation but only 5 for the driving simulation.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Arcade upgraded
Very good Graphics and handling for an arcade game, fun for a pro gamer and racing fan. better played with racewheel. 10++ for my taste. Like the way the cars get dirt, landscapes are amazing and very detailed. The swtich camera types like no other games, inside the care seems very realistic when driving and makes you see games racing in other level...

Played, Tested, enjoyed...


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great racing game--accessible to a wide audience
Dirt is a great racing game that features enough customization to cater to a wide range of fans. There are 5 difficulty levels on Dirt, each with varying amounts of realism, damage, and AI skill. Arcade racing fans can set the level on Rookie or Clubman (I believe that's what the 2nd lowest difficulty level is called), while more serious racers can ratchet up the difficulty for a more realistic experience. Dirt features several types of racing in a few different modes and a total of 46 available vehicles you can collect (along with several paintjobs for each), and for the most part is a pretty good game, though it does have some shortcomings. The good and the bad:

THE GOOD:

- Career Mode is great. There are 11 tiers of competition which expose you to all the various racing types in the game, and you can earn money from career mode to buy more vehicles.
- The races are fun and the control is great. Difficulty can be adjusted to suit your needs and the car can be tweaked if you so desire (but doesn't have to be if you don't want to mess with it).
- Several tracks offer quite a bit of variety, and the ability to race different classes of vehicles on most of them provides replay value.
- Great graphics, great sound effects when you drive or crash
- Upon completing a race your time is uploaded and you're given a worldwide rank based on everyone who has ever run the race. Nice touch.

THE BAD:

- Championship Mode is, ultimately, pointless. Sure, it's a great idea to have Championships of 15 or 30 races (or more if you choose the long option), but when you win a Championship you get no money, no trophy--not even a cutscene of any kind. Couldn't there be SOME kind of award, even if it was a new skin for the vehicle you won the championship in?
- Multiplayer lacks, both on and offline. First, there's no split screen multiplayer, which is annoying. But even online play is limited to only 2 kinds of events where you don't actually see your opponents but are only aware of their time relative to yours. This would be okay (and doesn't bother me that much), but communication between opponents is limited as well.
- The frame rate can suffer sometimes, though this doesn't happen often.

Dirt is a great game overall, but a few shortcomings keep it from being a spectacular game. Why not offer money or some kind of prizes in Championship Mode? And why not allow the XBox mileage achievements to be earned in other modes of play (you can only get the mileage in career), which might encourage more people to play online rather than playing the career over and over again? Still, if you're a fan of racing at all I highly recommend Dirt since it's few flaws are not enough to keep this game from being a lot of fun.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Very fun and addictive. Good for racing beginners.
I've never been into racing games, but Dirt appealed to me. Tried it, loved it, bought it. Since I have no experience since "Rad Racer", I appreaciated the learning curve on "Rookie" setting. The diversity of the tracks and vehicles break up the monotony of "ovals 'round the world" that turned me off most racing games. The graphics are amazing, the sound excellent, and the menus are intuitive and stylish. I have a friend who is a racing game FREAK, and he loved it right away. He didn't have an XBOX, and he went right out and bought one so he could play it. So, if you're at all intrigued by this game, just buy it, and you won't be disappointed.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Dirt is ok
there's a good varity of vheicls but not many tracks for each disaplin. the phyisics are ok they tryed to take arcade stily and make it feel lik a sim game but it just didn't work very well. some of the rally cars almost force you to drift even on the slightest corners or you woulnd end up off the course. the online play is terable. you can't make you own rooms, and you can only do rally races. you can't do curcit races online so you never see who you playing you just try to beat there time to the finish. you can't even play split screen or system link it. over all i say this is an incomplete game. it was way too short i beat it in about three days maybe playing for about 2 to3 hours at a time.

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