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Time will tell to see how much will be produced in playgrounds and how varied it will be, but outside of that there’s little this game does better than its predecessors.

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It’s a mode which epitomises the new direction the DiRT series is going in with the new game, favouring action and accessibility over a remotely accurate portrayal of real-world rallying. The big new feature for DiRT 5 is the playgrounds mode which allows players to create their own stages or gymkhana arenas.Īlready the creativity in what’s been created by the community is impressive, with everything from simple slalom courses to new rallycross stages to nine-minute long sprawling courses with jumps through rings of fire.

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You can drive on all of the tracks in time trial mode which is closer to a traditional rally experience. The pathfinder stages all feature steep hill climbs, narrow paths, and terrain that can easily roll your buggy over if you’re not careful.Īfter doing endless races, the gymkhana and pathfinder events offer some much-needed variety.Įven the rally raid events, which are the closest to traditional rally stages as they’re point-to-point tracks without any massive hills or big jumps, are still 12 car races.Īnyone who’s ever played a rally game has likely driven too fast, gone off-road and head-on into a tree – that isn’t possible in rally raid events since they’re still set up like purpose-built stages with barriers stopping you from going off track and hitting something or driving off the edge of a cliff. Pathfinder is the only event in the game’s career mode that has you drive on your own and try to get the finish in the quickest time possible. Gymkhana plays the same way it did in DiRT 3 as you have to score points in a time limit by doing donuts, 360 degree spins, drifts, jumps and smashing blocks. The only two events that aren’t races are gymkhana and the all-new pathfinder. That being said the sprint car is definitely a unique challenge as it needs to be driven in a totally different way to the other cars and you can get it to wheelie. The sprint car can only race around sprint oval circuits and the rallycross cars are quite restricted in the events they can do, but it still represents the most diverse car roster in a DiRT game.īut the more simplistic handling model, which is most comparable to DiRT 3 over any DiRT game that’s come since, means that the differences between how all the cars feel isn’t as profound as it is in the DiRT Rally games or even DiRT 4.

While most of the events are races and it really won’t take long before you drive on the same tracks multiple times, you’re often changing between the car classes. Speaking of which, the vehicle variety is one of DiRT 5’s strongest aspects as there are some iconic rally cars from the 1980s and 1990s along with buggies, a Formula Off-Road and sprint car.

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There are eight different event categories although six of them follow the same premise, that you start at the back of the grid and have to work your way to the front by overtaking as many other drivers as possible.Įach event category is really just a circuit type – for example, ice breaker events are all standard races on a frozen lake and stampede tracks usually have a gap you have to jump over and can only be raced on with the bigger vehicles. They all have that common theme but the DiRT games have gone through an identity crisis with DiRT 3 being a thrills-over-realism rally game and it had a heavy focus on gymkhana.Īfter that came DiRT Showdown which was more of a destruction derby and banger racing game and then there was DiRT 4 which was a more accessible version of the DiRT Rally games.įor the fourth game in a row, there’s been a shift in direction as DiRT 5 is distinctly different from its predecessors.įor starters rallying is almost entirely removed as almost every event in the career mode is a lights to flag race against other cars, the only difference being some are circuit races and some are point-to-point. In recent years the DiRT series has split into two halves, with the DiRT Rally (DiRT Rally and DiRT Rally 2.0) spin-off games being focused on realistically depicting rally and rallycross while the main DiRT series (DiRT 4 and now DiRT 5) has been a more casual experience. DiRT 5 is the latest in a long line of Codemasters’ produced rally games that can trace its lineage back to the Colin McRae Rally series.ĭespite that, DiRT 5 has very little in common with those games and isn’t even a rally game, it would be more accurate to describe it as an off-road racing game as conventional rallying isn’t really represented.

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