Codemasters is adding another title to their Colin McRae Rally franchise as DIRT 2 will be making its way to the PC and consoles in late 2009.
Ever since the release of Colin McRae Rally 2, the company has somewhat lost its simulation ways, putting more emphasis on eye candy and action instead of driving physics. This seems to persist as the first DIRT 2 previews surely look stunning, it’s unlikely that the cars will get proper physics to go with the graphical glory though.
Fresh blood in terms of rally simulations would be pretty much needed though as Richard Burns Rally remains the only available title to choose from since its release in late 2004. The most positive aspect about those CMR titles is that they keep remembering people of Colin McRae, the legendary Scottish World Rally Champion who was involved in a fatal helicopter crash in 2007.
LensFlare
February 20th, 2009 at 02:03
It looks stunning. Fact.
I guess proper physics would be too much to ask for our even most recents CPU’s in addition to the looks that already use quite a lot of processing time…
pinje
February 20th, 2009 at 03:02
Colin McRae DIRT 2 does look very nice. The first one was good, ok the physics are nothing compared to RBR but it was fun, especially the CORR buggies and trucks.
It would be nice to one day have a new rally sim that is basically a new Richard Burns Rally, but with the current mods keeping the sim up to date with new cars and now stages… do we need one?
RKipker
February 20th, 2009 at 05:40
Awesome, this is stadium racing.. like the X-Games, great as I agree the trophy trucks were the best section of Dirt
ScHiRoCk
February 20th, 2009 at 09:49
Can not wait
6e66o
February 20th, 2009 at 11:02
Can hardly believe this is ingame grafic.
I wont get the game anyway…cmr physics are really weak.
RBR ftw!
navalhawkeye
February 20th, 2009 at 13:41
I thought DIRT was a great game. It may have been ‘arcadey’ but it was fun to play.
stabiz
February 20th, 2009 at 16:41
Agreed 6e66o. I got DIRT with a graphics card once, and I gave it to a friend, the physics are horrible.
RBR looking like this would be classified as filthy, filthy porn.
Paul Kelly
February 20th, 2009 at 17:32
Sad that a developer that made a console/PC series as great as Colin McRae Rally now is making this arcadish crap.
Oh, well: Long live Richard Burns Rally!
GeraArg
February 20th, 2009 at 17:40
All show, no go.
FabianBonora
February 22nd, 2009 at 22:18
No, these shots are not ingame! I read an article in the german gamestar magazine 2-3 months ago (or so) with the same screenies and they said they were edited.
In fact both games ftw because think back to CMR 1 or 2.0 or maybe the 3 these were great games, but thats the difference!
CMR is the game
RBR (or should i say RSRBR) is the simulation!