DiRT Showdown
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DiRT Showdown Reviews
DiRT Showdown review
To clarify right off the bat, DiRT Showdown is not your typical DiRT game. For years, Codemasters has been perfecting the art of the rally racing game, starting with the Colin McRae series and eventually moving onto the DiRT-y path. But with Showdown, it takes things a little more extreme, somewhere along the same lines as the original MotorStorm game. But where that game was all about racing, Showdown introduces a fun, new destructive factor that, when coupled with the already proven gameplay and online features, makes for a fun ride to take on warm summer evenings. As you race through Showdown's campaign, you'll discover multiple events that you can take part in. The stunt-filled Gymkhana returns, with Ken Block once again issuing challenges from behind the wheel. You'll also take part in Smash Block races (where you run over blocks in succession to keep a race going), 8-Ball events (with enclosed figure-8 style tracks) and Trick Rush (performing jumps and other feats to boost your score), along with not-so-traditional Hooligan events. Two stand-outs join the team this time around. The first is Joyride, consisting of a number of wide-open racing roads where you can stop and choose whatever challenges you're up to.
DiRT Showdown Review
UK REVIEW: There's a spectacle to Dirt Showdown that flies in the face of racing tradition: the jumps, the drifts, the squealing doughnuts, and the blinding flash of fireworks. With each crumpled bumper and shattered windscreen, a vast arena crowd roars, eager to be wowed not with the shaving of valuable seconds from a lap time, but with pyrotechnic-laden displays of driving that are as much about showmanship and destruction as they are about skilful precision. It's an intoxicating mix that forgoes the difficulty of simulation for a thrilling and beautifully presented arcade ride. The biggest difference between Showdown and its predecessors is that the handling is surprisingly forgiving. You can whip your car around the tightest of corners without ever easing off the accelerator, while even the most dramatic twirls of the steering wheel don't send you hurtling headfirst towards a barrier like they used to. But there's still a balance to be found. The skill lies in the timing of your turns and the judicious tapping of your hand brake and boost to perform impressive drifts and show-stopping doughnut rings. It's a dramatically different feel, but one that lends itself beautifully to the events at hand. Some, like the Hoonigan events, are all about precision and showmanship in licensed cars. The destructible blocks of Smash Hunter are intricately arranged to reward delicate turns and tight drifts, while a timer for high scores keeps the pressure on, and your speed up.
DiRT Showdown Review
DiRT Showdown is one answer to an important question: how do you make a multiplayer-focused racing game?We've all been there. Heck, I was there just the other day - take a racing game online and it's more daunting than trying to play Counter-Strike and StarCraft II simultaneously while somebody rubs jam into your eyes. The mathematical precision required to excel in a straight racer presents a steep barrier to entry, and the fact nobody who plays racing games is happy with anything other than a podium finish means that, by virtue of numbers alone, there are far more sore losers than happy winners. To succeed in multiplayer, it seems, a racing game needs far more than just racing.It could also be argued, though, that DiRT Showdown also answers the more pragmatic problem of how to wring extra value of a popular franchise and an expensive in-house engine. But by unceremoniously chopping out the sleek, nippy racing from the esteemed series, alongside the simply gorgeous cockpit views, and replacing them with bitesized events and team-based challenges, Codemasters is attempting to tap into our collective love of crinkled bonnets, battered doors and hyperbolic collisions.
Dirt Showdown Review
UK REVIEW: There's a spectacle to Dirt Showdown that flies in the face of racing tradition: the jumps, the drifts, the squealing doughnuts, and the blinding flash of fireworks. With each crumpled bumper and shattered windscreen, a vast arena crowd roars, eager to be wowed not with the shaving of valuable seconds from a lap time, but with pyrotechnic-laden displays of driving that are as much about showmanship and destruction as they are about skilful precision. It's an intoxicating mix that forgoes the difficulty of simulation for a thrilling and beautifully presented arcade ride. The biggest difference between Showdown and its predecessors is that the handling is surprisingly forgiving. You can whip your car around the tightest of corners without ever easing off the accelerator, while even the most dramatic twirls of the steering wheel don't send you hurtling headfirst towards a barrier like they used to. But there's still a balance to be found. The skill lies in the timing of your turns and the judicious tapping of your hand brake and boost to perform impressive drifts and show-stopping doughnut rings. It's a dramatically different feel, but one that lends itself beautifully to the events at hand. Some, like the Hoonigan events, are all about precision and showmanship in licensed cars.
Dirt Showdown Review
Dirt Showdown's intentions are clear from the moment you turn the key. This game wants you to be online, immediately. If you're not playing it online it wants you to be talking about it online. Lurking below the intro movie you'll spot a gentle prod to leap on Twitter and tell the world about the game you're about to play. It wants your YouTube account settings too and, after activating your online pass, it wants you to register for Racenet, Codies' new social stat tracking service that works a lot like EA's Autolog. If you don't want to do any of this it's going to keep asking you anyway. If you really aren't that interested in all this stuff, Dirt Showdown probably isn't for you. This game honestly doesn't want you to stay offline for long and will spam you with menu pop-ups until you yield. The game's frustrating assertiveness aside, things do start well. It's certainly impossible to confuse Dirt Showdown as anything BUT a Codemasters racing game; the presentation itself retains that familiar Codemasters aesthetic, complete with crashing option overlays and smooth transitions between menu levels. It's slicker than a buttered mongoose. In-game the news remains positive. The cars are nicely detailed and accumulate muck and dust as the races progress.
DiRT Showdown
Fans of the DiRT franchise may not feel comfortable at first approaching DiRT Showdown. Where DiRT 3 is a technical rally racer with arcade stylings, DiRT Showdown is more of an arcade rally racer that highlights collisions, nitro boost, pyrotechnic effects, and wanton destruction. Paying attention to turns and drifts still matters if you want to earn first place finishes, but all of the technical jargon is meant to step aside lest it be crushed by the wheels of a monster truck. That's just how DiRT Showdown wants to be perceived: rowdy, irreverent, and deliberately graceless. Tracks tend to be comprised of wide dirt roads littered with the occasional pile of tires and barrels for your vehicle to smash, as well as plenty of jump opportunities to catch some altitude. Meanwhile, AI opponents attempt to ram you off the road, spin you out, wreck your car into pieces, and do whatever it takes to bully you out of the competition. The commentator goes into a frenzy for every collision out on the racetrack, all while pyrotechnics and laser effects go off generously, making it seem as if the entire event takes place in a destruction derby carnival.
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Dirt Showdown (Xbox 360) | $19.99 | See it |
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DiRT Showdown | $41.89 | See it |
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DiRT Showdown [Japan Import] | $42 | See it |
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DiRT Showdown : (7.5/10)
6 expert reviews
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