Colin McRae got more and more unrealistic and ultimately became DiRT. I enjoyed dirt for what it was, but it was unrealistic, and VERY floaty on the controls.

Gran Turismo doesn’t really have Rally anymore, Rallisport Challenge doesn’t get made anymore….and everyone else just wants to simulate F1, WTCC, STC, and GTR. If only simbin made a rally game.

But I look forward to DiRT 2 anyways. Hard to get a good racing game on the PC that isn’t a super simulator.

If you’ll buy the game without trying the demo you can only blame yourself.

True, but I still wanted my money back. To be fair, the Escudo/Tacoma on the full Pikes Peak track was quite fun.

I did like Grid better though (GrID?). It was reasonably fun for an arcade game, but it was so hard to play though without any sort of look ahead. That really killed it for me.

I played the dirt demo thought it was pretty but crap.

If you’ll buy the game without trying the demo you can only blame yourself.

I still can’t pin down why i loved grid so much. I think that it came with a nice multiplayer experience, bumping cars that block you and making them spin out is sweet when its another person. I still need a nice racing wheel. I’m too poor for my ideal wheel atm.

I’m with Schmung, the controls felt all wierd and the physics didn’t really make sense. It was also near impossible to play with a wheel because the controls would flip from “not turning at all” to “you just did an instant 180 (and backed into a tree)” with no warning. I finally finished it with a 360 controller, but I still wish I could have gotten my money back.

Any more fantastical and we’ll be getting something along the lines of a Sonic team racing game :/

@Hi.
The Colin McRae-game we really love is 2.0, so why can’t they use all this modern technowizardry to make something like that again?

You’re not joking! I thought i was the only one who loved the features and play style of CM2. Why did they drop hot seat play? Being able to locally switch between players on the PC and compete through the whole rally was a great feature and why did they feel the need to add in all the crappy other ’sports’ to Dirt?

Unfortunately i can’t really comment on the handling as the only time i got to play the game was on a demo PC in PC world when the staff weren’t watching – from that i thought that the co-driver wasn’t so bad…. though the presentation and amount of levels of menu you had to go through to get to something in the game even outdoes the NXE for 360. Flashy but little substance.
Oh and i did buy the game…. it just refused to run on my dad’s X2 3800+, gf7800 512MB with 2 GB RAM. I’d get through to the game and would try and start a race but the thing would just crash and hang every time and none of the patches or anything could fix this…. :(
I couldn’t get the game to run at a reasonable frame rate on my PC so it’s currently sitting on my shelf like the useless piece of junk that it is.

Colin McRae/ Nicky Grist Subaru 14:36 (Driven by Will Ferrell)

The “Tom Clancy Brand” deserves as much respect as any other heavily milked done-to-death franchise.

Anyway, OT.

TITS? Oh, wait that’s need for speed.