It seems this summer is really about car racing games and Codemasters has decided to join the party by releasing two new images of Colin McRae: Dirt 2. The game is planned for release on September 8 in North America and September 10 in Europe on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
Update: 12 images added.
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I said this before but forget all these racing games that could be mistaken for one another flooding the market. Give us a destruction derby game. When ever destruction derby is tacked on to a racing game its always without fail the most popular part of that game online (grid, flatout, as examples). You would of thought that somebody would invest in a pure derby game by now.
I said this before but forget all these racing games that could be mistaken for one another flooding the market. Give us a destruction derby game. When ever destruction derby is tacked on to a racing game its always without fail the most popular part of that game online (grid, flatout, as examples). You would of thought that somebody would invest in a pure derby game by now.
i agree tho, it's weird that no-one has really taken the damage model and made a game almost based completely around it. but then at the same time i'm not sure it would work, at least not if they simply took DiRT's damage model and threw it in a derby game, one major crash and you'd be dead. what made the DD series so good was the fact it WAS'NT realistic, you could take 10,000 head on collissions and still fight on.
as i said, we really havnt seen enough of GT5 to completely rule it out, sure it may not have the content of a pure rally game (well, at least the old rally games) but in terms of DiRT i think it could be reletively good competition, if you take both games pure rally components and compare them, they really problably wont be all that different, GT5 may even have more rally tracks/ cars. which isnt hard seeing as DiRT only has a handfull. we'll see i guess. we need to see more of GT5 before we can say for sure.
i think GT5's rally component WILL be more substantial then any of the past games, otherwise they wouldnt have bothered aquiring the WRC licence....same goes for the infinately less enjoyable nascar, if there wasnt much of it i cant imagine they'd bother with the license.
I guess Richard Burns Rally will rule supreme for a few additional years/decades.
Its very strange nobody has produced a true derby game this gen.. or last gen as far as i can recall? especially like i said the proofs there that people dig it.. atleast online anyway.
Theres so many gameplay possibilitys with one too.. you could have the usual everyman for himself, team games -red v's blue, a "wingman" style game where the each pair of cars are chained together, defend/destroy the caravan, competing tricks... and then theres the races to survive on top. Combine all that with nice graphics, and this gen's physics... surely it would be a winner online?
To pull you up on the GT5 thing.. well i've not heard too much about it, but i would assume it would be akin to calling Grid good competition for the next F1 game. I cant imagine the rallying being all that much more substantial than that.
Besides which for "competition" it has to speak to that set of fans.. odds are that rally sports fans would always pick a game known to be dedicated to the sport over one that has a section on it as a passing fancy
I guess Richard Burns Rally will rule supreme for a few additional years/decades.
Its very strange nobody has produced a true derby game this gen.. or last gen as far as i can recall? especially like i said the proofs there that people dig it.. atleast online anyway.
Theres so many gameplay possibilitys with one too.. you could have the usual everyman for himself, team games -red v's blue, a "wingman" style game where the each pair of cars are chained together, defend/destroy the caravan, competing tricks... and then theres the races to survive on top. Combine all that with nice graphics, and this gen's physics... surely it would be a winner online?
To pull you up on the GT5 thing.. well i've not heard too much about it, but i would assume it would be akin to calling Grid good competition for the next F1 game. I cant imagine the rallying being all that much more substantial than that.
Besides which for "competition" it has to speak to that set of fans.. odds are that rally sports fans would always pick a game known to be dedicated to the sport over one that has a section on it as a passing fancy
and DiRT isnt exactly a pure rally game either. where GT5 has track based races and nascar, DiRT has all those random race types that no rally fan is going to care about. but since there isnt a pure rally title out there this gen, i think they both will offer good competition for each other.
Anyway, I've had enough with Codemaster's shit. Dirt was pretty bad, but still had some dignity. This on the other hand, yuck. Should be interesting to see what GT5 does with the WRC license, but stick with Richard Burns for a proper rally fix.
the only hint of a neon light is on the last picture.. which i'm pretty sure is from the selection menu