Reviewed on Sept. 22, 2009
Improvements on the original in every area make Dirt 2 the one to beat when it comes to off-road racing.
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DIRT 2 is the Latest Game in the Long-Running Rally-Racing-Series from Codemasters.
Overview
The Upgraded Graphics Engine Allows For Impressive Lighting and Particle Effects
The game is built on the third-generation EGO engine, which improves on the impressive lighting, damage-modeling, and textures found in GRiD. The game also features an improved system to handle environmental hazards such as dust kicked up by other drivers, pools of water, and more. The game also improves on the already impressive driver's-seat view, and incorporates the rewind feature found in GRiD, which allows people a limited amount of attempts to re-do missed turns, spin outs, et cetera. Also improved is the online-multiplayer experience, which includes both tour and quick races, leaderboards, frequent tournaments (which also allow players to win prizes), and an improved matchmaking system, by which players gain "fame" (the game's version of experience) as they drive in online-races.
DiRT 2 features a large selection of licensed vehicles, from rally cars to buggies, and sees the return of the trucks from the original DiRT, albeit downsized to a large degree; there are a total of seven separate classes of vehicles that the player gets to drive on the game's large variety of tracks, which take place all over the world, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States.
DiRT 2 was released on September 8th in North America, and September 11th in the United Kingdom.
Career Mode
As players gain more fame and level up, they can compete in more events, in more locations. As players move up the tree, from Rookie to All-Star, they take on harder opponents, in faster cars; however, more fame and money can be earned on higher career-skill-levels, as well as when the player ratchets up the difficulty.
Car List
- West Coast Choppers Stuka TT
- Mitsubishi Racing Lancer
- Toyota FJ Cruiser
- Subaru Impreza WRX STI
- Subaru Impreza STI Group N
- PRC-1 Buggy
- Pontiac Solice GXP
- Nissan 350z
- VW Race Touareg 2
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
- Mitsubishi Eclipse GT
- Kincaid Ford F-150 Trophy Truck
- Hummer HX
- Hummer H3
- Honda Ridgeline
- Herbst Smithbuilt Buggy
- Dodge Ram Trophy Truck
- DeJong MXR
- Colin McRae R4
- Chevrolet Silverado CK-1500
- Brian Ickler Buggy
- Bowler Nemesis
- BMW Z4 Coupe Motorsport
Soundtrack
- Biffy Clyro - Mountains
- Black Stone Cherry - Blind Man
- Black Tide - Shout
- Blakfish - Jeremy Kyle Is A Marked Man
- Bloc Party - Helicopter
- Bloc Party - Talons
- Deichkind - Ich Betaeube Mich
- Die! Die! Die! - Sideways Here We Come
- Dinosaur Pileup - All Around The World
- Eagles Of Death Metal - Wannabe In LA
- Elbow - Ground For Divorce
- Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
- Friendly Fires - In The Hospital
- Friendly Fires - Lovesick
- Glamour Of The Kill - A Hope In Hell
- Hollow Earth Theory - Transmission
- Iglue & Hartly - Violent & Young
- Kram - Good Love
- Ladyhawke - My Delirium
- Madine Lake - Never Take Us Alive
- MSTRKRFT - Work On You
- Proceed - Treading Water
- Prodigy - Warriors Dance
- Qemists - Lost Weekend
- Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister
- Rise Against - Injection
- Santogold - Say Aha
- Scars On Broadway - They Say
- Silversun Pickups - There'e No Secrets This Year
- Steadlur - Bumpin'
- Templeton Pek - Red Lights Flash
- The Automatic - Steve McQueen
- The Cribs - Men's Needs
- The Futureheads - Radio Heart
- The Hot Melts - Edith
- The Rakes - 1989
- The Stone Roses - This Is The One
- The Subways - I Won't Let You Down
- The Temper Trap - Science Of Fear
- The Walkmen - The Rat
- Tommy Sparks - I'm A Rope
- Unkle ft Josh Homme - Restless
- White Denim - Let's Talk About it
- White Lies - To Lose My Life
- You Me At Six - Save It For The Bedroom
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
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| Aliases | Colin McRae: DiRT 2 |
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