- DIRT RALLY RALLYCROSS DRIVERS
- DIRT RALLY RALLYCROSS DRIVER
- DIRT RALLY RALLYCROSS LICENSE
- DIRT RALLY RALLYCROSS PLUS
In the free play modes you don’t have to worry about repair bills (a real trial for rookie drivers as upgrades and better cars must often wait because all your credits go into repairing your current car) as hammering the car back to shape is free. The tuning of the cars must also be unlocked with research points and credits. Each career event earns not only credits to buy new cars and train the racing crew with but also research points that will make cars perform better in the long run with different upgrades. Rallycross really teaches throttle control and corrective steering on a micro level, so it’s substantive to participate in it to perform better in the timed stage races, too.
It’s perhaps more thankful to a random video game player as you’ll be driving around tracks so many times that you’re bound to learn their every twist and bend, and there are also other cars to race against. Rallycross is a form of sprint style on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production cars like in the world class rally. If there also happens to be a night and rain, then it’s good luck, rookie! There’s no soft landing as the championship starts from serpentine roads across rocky terrain in Argentina. Each consists of timed stage events on tarmac and off-road terrain.
DIRT RALLY RALLYCROSS LICENSE
Italian developer Milestone has the official World Championship Rally license so the one in DiRT Rally is adapted and summarized version with six venues to race through Argentina, Spain, USA, New Zealand, Poland and Australia. The career mode, under My Team menu, features rally and rallycross championships to compete in as well as daily and weekly community and AI challenges. It’s great to spread across different events and get the feel for the game before heading to the career mode that’s the core experience of DiRT Rally 2.0. Flexible save system allows storing multiple races in progress, so you’re not locked out of anything either but rather can drive different disciplines as you want. Laid out in clear and explanatory menus, you won’t get lost as to what to do. There’s no further narration and none is needed.Įven though the game throws players straight to the deep end with its challenge and demands a lot right from the start, it's not at all intimidating to get into it.
DIRT RALLY RALLYCROSS DRIVER
Seeing the driver duo in action adds immensely to the immersion. All the while your co-driver reads notes by the side, eyes both on the notebook and on the road. He or she pumps fists in outros as you’re performing well and as seen through a replay camera inside the car, squints eyes in concentration, rigorously steers and shifts gears, and jolts up and down on the driver’s seat. For me it’s important that there’s not just a nameless, helmeted dummy inside the car (like in Gran Turismo series) but rather the driver of your choice. You start the game by choosing your driver’s appearance from a few male and female options, represented country, name and race number.
DIRT RALLY RALLYCROSS PLUS
If you’re not familiar with rally notes, tough luck as there’s no tutorial or driving school, but on the plus side, they are pretty self-explanatory. Of course, you’re not driving blindly on the tracks as the co-driver (there are several language options for them) churns out notes as you drive. Some like behind-the-car-view as they can see how the car is thrown into the corners but I played mostly from the cabin view, as from there I found it easier to manage the throttle control and constant corrective steering. It’s a matter of taste which view you play from. You can feel how the tires bite onto the gravel and tarmac and gnaw them away at each roll of the wheels, with a heavy force feedback emitting a terrible tremble onto your palms. The new option in DiRT Rally 2.0 is degrading roads. Several driving assists are turned off by default and should be left so because only then you learn to drive better. Of course, it all would amount to naught if it weren’t for the game’s impressive driving physics that border on simulation. It really testes the mettle when you drive at breakneck speeds on some of the most dangerous tracks in the world - with a deadly drop in one side and a sharp cliffside on the other. It takes an immense concentration and proactiveness, applying brakes when needed, sliding into the corner and throttling the engine to pull away from it – until the next corner. No other frills and thrills, such as story or gaining followers, are needed because rally driving itself is such an adrenaline rush.
The game does its own thing and that is driving a rally car. When so many games, triple-A and indie titles alike, have a tendency to break out into every direction, I have come to appreciate discipline, and there’s bucketloads of that here. DirT Rally 2.0 isn’t your first driving game nor is it everyone’s driving game.