Initially, it pays to mess around with the driving assists. Put in an impressive performance, and you can upload it as a video straight to YouTube.Ī marvellous dance-music soundtrack impresses, as does the fact that it is simply one of the best-looking driving games ever.
It's all presented in a brash manner featuring vast amounts of branding, reminiscent of an X-Games event – which may offend beard-stroking rally-nuts, but makes great sense in the context of a video game.
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It has a beautifully structured single-player mode which encompasses proper rallying – in some of the finest machinery ever created, such as the Ford RS200, Metro 6R4 and the cut-and-shut Audi Quattro, as well as countless Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi Evos, plus the latest S2000 cars – rallycross, buggy-races (in imaginative surroundings such as the snow of Aspen) and head-to-head, Super Special Stage-style show-downs. The cars you're given for the Gymkhana levels are considerably easier to drift than they would be in real life, which means that getting your tyres to lose adhesion becomes fun once more, rather than a chore.ĭirt 3 isn't just about the Gymkhanas (although you can head to the Gymkhana courses whenever you fancy, once you unlock them).
Mainly because the game's underlying engine (which also powers the Formula One franchise) is so good. Dirt 3's poster-boy is Ken Block, a charismatic American who, though sufficiently accomplished a rally-driver to appear in the WRC, has earned YouTube super-stardom through being the world's finest proponent of "honing" – essentially, driving like a maniac in order to entertain.īlock invented a fantasy motor-sport he calls Gymkhana, which involves showing off around obstacle-encrusted courses by jumping, drifting, pulling doughnuts and smashing blocks designed to disintegrate, and Dirt 3 gives you the first chance to test your Gymkhana mettle – around a number of courses, including one set in the grounds of Battersea Power Station in London (which Codemasters set up in real life to publicise the game).Īnyone who played Shift 2: Unleashed will feel their spirits sinking at the mention of drifting, but Dirt 3, thankfully, should restore their faith.
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