DiRT Comes To PC
If you are into the racing games than you’ll love to know about the new PC game called DiRT. For those of you who like the Colin McRae’s racing games than you will like this one. It may be a bit more modern than McRae’s but it still on the same track. It’s a great game to play(especially with friends)and even better to look at.
There have been plenty of driving games of late that have been visually impressive, but very few live up to the visual fidelity displayed by DiRT. This game is a technical achievement in car design, track design, and damage modeling. To begin with, the cars are beautifully rendered, highly detailed models that are as fantastic to look at as they are to destroy. Damage modeling is one of the most impressive aspects of the game; you can lose bumpers or doors, break glass, tear up the paintjob, and roll your ride into a crushed, deformed mess. Tracks are equally beautiful and destructible. From the rain-slick tarmac tracks of Japan and the dusty backroads of Italy to the muddy, gravelly countryside of the UK, DiRT nails every environment wonderfully.
The game includes six different racing disciplines, which consist of rally, rallycross, hillclimb, CORR, crossover, and rally raid varieties. If you don’t know what half of those are, don’t fret. The game does a good job of easing you into the game’s style of racing, with both some rather simple early races, as well as an explanatory narration by extreme sports maven and current Rally America champion Travis Pastrana.
As realistic as the damage incurrence can be, the rest of the game definitely maintains an arcade mentality. Nearly all the vehicles have a decidedly floaty feel to them, one that seems to overcompensate for nearly every minute turn of the analog stick. It’s not unmanageable or anything, but it’s far from realistic. By the same token, the game’s physics are often a bit silly, especially in wrecks. That’s not an insult by any means because the exaggerated physics lead to some absolutely spectacular wrecks in many cases. But there are some eye-roll-worthy moments where you’ll see a car tilt from lying on its side all the way back upright for no good reason or drive sideways up a cliff to land back on four wheels.
The great thing about this game is that it offers more than just great graphics, but a fun time kicking people off the road and beating them to the finish line. This is definitely one of the better games and we just can’t seem to find anything bad about it.
