Colin McRae: DIRT (Xbox 360)

there are two kinds of people. One who pimp their rides with custom parts, no matter where they find them and change the whole look of their machines. Then, there are car fanatics who alter mechanical parts of a vehicle to smoothen its performance. They don`t give a fig about the technical aspects of racing or performance. Seemingly, they fancy their rides, adorned with different company names and vinyl of crazy shapes. For such types of car lovers, I must recommend games such as Need for Speed Underground Series, Carbon, Most wanted, Burn out and many more. On the other hand, some people are the true followers of motor sports like WRC (World Rally ...  Read the complete review

I am an avid gamer who has been playing games since the days of early Atari consoles and have always enjoyed the thrill of the racing game. Colin McRae rally games have been around for sometime and are often thought of as simulation games. Tricky to drive, lots of fiddling about with settings etc just to be able to reach the end of the course. One for the purist rally fanatic you might say but over the generations the realism has improved and the controls been ironed out to make the games more playable and now that Dirt has been offered as the first McRae game on the next gen consoles I thought it might be worth a play. The first thing that hit me about ...  Read the complete review

I personally think that this game has some of the best graphics I have ever seen on an Xbox 360 game. Therefore, its no wonder that it has become an Xbox Classic. Aside of the graphics is really realistic gameplay. When I say realistic, don't get me wrong, its not bad to play, its actually very good. Although the game does take a bit of getting used to (as I found out), once you've mastered it, its not as hard. The hardest part is trying not to crash, as if you want to go flat out you really need to pay attention and be pin point accurate with the turns. The career is the perfect length, not to long, but not to short either. It took me about 13 ...  Read the complete review

"If In Doubt, Flat Out", the late Colin McRae's most memorable quote of his career. The Colin Mcrae games have been around for years, I used to play them on the Playstation 1 and will never forget the abnormality of being off the track, going through gates and dirt tracks and racing in the snow, through fords, something no other rally game could compete with. Colin McRae DIRT really lived up to it's expectations and set yet another benchmark for any other rally game to compete with. The game is all about getting from A to B in the quickest time possible. Handbrake turns round hairpin bends, narrow bridges, being on two wheels, ...  Read the complete review

Colin McRae: DiRT is the latest in the long line of Colin McRae branded games (it's such a shame that he's no longer around to enjoy them with us) and this one is similar to the other ones in basic format: you race rally cars at impossibly high speeds around a low-friction track (such as a dirt one), trying to finish in the best time. DiRT has added a few other features, and you no longer have to race simple rally cars: trucks etc are now available to race. You can also race on tarmac, which makes for a nice change. Career mode consists of many different ralleys, such as the classic rally cross, but also hill climbs among other ...  Read the complete review