Anything else?

Not really. The demo doesn’t show you anything of career mode and just gives you the 3 options listed earlier. One nice feature, and I hope it will be in the full game, is that you can instantly retry a race after it has finished and there is no loading. You are instantly back at the start and race in a few seconds from there. To be honest, this looked like a finished part of the game, so I’d expect it to be in the retail version. An excellent way to reduce the ‘frustration factor’.

Another nice touch is how they deal with track boundaries. You don’t just hit an invisible ‘wall’, you either hit a physical obstruction (ie, a real wall) or you carry on tumbling across the rest of the landscape. If you hit certain other boundaries, they can actually get damaged/moved in the process creating potential obstacles ahead.

I don’t like racing games, but I really liked this.

Colin McRae DiRT, released on June 15th, 2007

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