Dirt 3 is the experience I was hoping GT5 would be...
By Noct 20 Comments
I'm just floored by how good Dirt 3 is... I bought this yesterday in a game sale at Target for $35, and I am just blown away.
Not only is this easily the best looking racer I have ever seen (on console), the control is amazing, the level of detail is staggering, and the sheer amount of variety and options are just increadible.
I was a little turned off by how difficult it seemed for the first hour or so, but once I got my wheel tuned properly and ironed out what driving-assists I needed to be using, it went from being painful to completely exhilarating.
The car models themselves don't blow me out of the water, but the tracks are breathtaking, the particle effects are probably the best I've ever seen, and the weather.. MY GOD the weather... Driving in the snow feels completely different then driving in the dirt. It's not even just a loss of control or slidy pavement either, the physics of it all feel like they have totally changed during the snow courses. I feel like I'm strapped to a rocket, just trying to keep it moving forward until it inevitably explodes.
The sense of speed in this game is just amazing. Hands-down best speed of any racer I've played since Road Rash on 3DO, and possibly, ever. This truly feels like a "next gen" racing game, or at least, an evolution of the genre. Perfect control, tons of content, fantastic presentation. Hell, even the loads times aren't too bad.
This is what I should have walked away from GT5 feeling. Just glad I finally got that experience.
Thumbs WAY up, what a fantastic game.
