Colin mcrae Dirt - The best game I have ever owned (Colin McRae: DIRT (Xbox 360))

Member Name: gavallan2020

Product:	Colin McRae: DIRT (Xbox 360)
Date:	15/05/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: gameplay online play career good length car choice !GRAPHICS!

Disadvantages: none

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 hours to complete 100 %. The way the career works is that there is 11 levels in the pyramid. Each level of the pyramid has an event in it, the higher up you get, the more races are involved in one event. The same goes for the way the cars are unlocked, the higher you get, the better the cars. If you are working through the career, I recommend that you try and complete the events in order. Because once you reach the top of the pyramid, its annoying seeing the 80% career completion.

Online play is quite good, there can be up to 8 racers in the one match, the way that it works is dependent on times. Everyone starts off at the same time, once the first person is finished a 30 second counter starts, if you are outside that you're time will be a DNF (did not finish). Another nice touch to the Xbox Live side of the game is the world times, which gather the best times in the world and put them into a leaderboard. However, as I got higher up on them, I noticed that several people had hacked the game. For example: on one of the tracks I am 23rd in the world. However, 1st place is still 18 seconds ahead of me, I mean I couldn't have got a second quicker if I had spent the whole night on it.

Anyway, overall I strongly recommend this game especially because of the graphics but also because of other factors such as good length, real life race tracks, awesome gameplay and not to mention that the car choice is very good (it ranges from dirt buggies to rallycross cars to massive trucks). Just to finally emphasaise once more, if you do get this game, watch the intro all the way through, the graphics are truly unbelievable.

Summary: An exceptional game, well worth getting, a brilliant tribute to colin mcrae