Dirt: Showdown

[Snakey]

Billed as a "new experience" for the series, it will see the realistic rally franchise add competitive racing elements, as well as an emphasis on boosts, tricks and crashes.

'Racing' events offer nitrous boosts over ramps and through obstacles, 'Demolition Derby' has players smash and grind their way through the opposition, and 'Hoonigan' offers the opportunity to demonstrate freestyle tricks and stunts.

As well as 50 different events across four championships in a variety of weather conditions, multiplayer options include local split-screen play, eight-player online and YouTube integration.

"DiRT Showdown is not the sequel to the authentic rally-centric DiRT 3, but a brand new experience from the DiRT team," said vice president of development Julian Widdows.

"We're building on Codemasters Racing Studio's world-class strengths in track design, graphics, AI, damage and online to create a new theatre of racing with the emphasis on accessibility and fun from race one."

Looks different, liking the Destruction Derby type gameplay. Hopefully with this out they will concentrate on a stronger rally based game rather than the Americanization the series has fallen to when they do Dirt 4

 

[sbridgey]

Wy do people love crashing and games with NOS so much?

 

[Gareth]

Looks sh*te tbh, I'll wait for Dirt 4.

 

[Eddie.]

Looks like a bag of balls being honest.

Do not want.

 

[16v_er]

dirt is sh*te now the yanks have had their say. Crap gymkana mode tbh. dirt 2 was better than 3.

 

[Addicted]

If it ends up being liek FlatOut 2 then I'm all for it, but i imagine they'll fail hard with it!

 

[glenn_adam_doble]

sh!te, need a proper Colin McRae rally style game to come out, none have come close to how good they used to be

 

[Cookie]

We need a proper follow up to the Destruction Derby games of the PS1 era

 

[Eddie.]

We need a proper follow up to the Destruction Derby games of the PS1 era

s**t me they were awesome! God I loved that game!

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Looks s**t! They should do 2 games. One with the drift/gymkanah stuff and another that concentrates on rally (ala Colin McRae on the PS2). I bet the latter would out sell 2:1 minimum.

 

[Addicted]

Looks s**t! They should do 2 games. One with the drift/gymkanah stuff and another that concentrates on rally (ala Colin McRae on the PS2). I bet the latter would out sell 2:1 minimum.

That's what they are doing, this is the drift/gymkhana, the Rally is out later on!

Says in the video

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Lol. I fail Not watching the the full video FTL

 

[JoeyD]

I've just bought DiRT 3 and it's actually pretty good - better than I expected... I don't think I'll be getting this though, looks kinda lame TBH.

 

[Snakey]

I preferred dirt 3 to the second one and enjoyed the gymkhana stages.

Hopefully this edition will man that the next will concentrate on rallying, but then the dirt games have been rebooted to appeal to the mass market so I can't see it happening tbh

 

[Jamie16v]

Demo is out for this and I actually quite like it. Reminds me of the Demolition Derby days and online is pretty fun. Anyone else tried it out?

 

[Rhino172]

Yeah I like the demo. Reminds me a lot of the derby races in GRiD, which is most certainly a good thing. Spent ages on those!

 

[Gareth]

Not convinced myself tbh, its better than I thought it would be but still not sure.

 

[Darren S]

Demo seemed quite good I thought. I don't think I'd pay full whack for the game though - I might pick it up in a sale.

D.

 

[Jamie16v]

Decent pre-order deal here

http://www.simplygames.com/info/19373/Dirt-Showdown-PS3

£29.99

 

[nebraska182]

Demo was disappointing - seems like a watered down version of destruction derby,you dont even get points for spinning other cars 180/360 degrees...there needs to be a lot more debris flying about,if they are going to base the game mainly on this mode i want to be more in-depth...always loved the idea of having 'rivals' in the original DD games - they need to develop the other drivers and their behaviours so you have enemies etc.

I'll probably give this a miss atm as i really cant be bothered with the gymkhana stuff again in the career mode - graphics are great and if they develop the DD mode more i might look for it when its cheaper. Online mode is the main appeal for me on this one.

 

[BIFCAIDS]

Utter toss

 

[The Fatty]

I might just have to dig out my DD2 disk iirc the music was pretty awsome on that game as well!

 

[Reev]

Looks like a sack of s**t. I'll wait until the next one.