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| From: Codemasters
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $27.99
You Save: $2.00 (7%)
New (9) Used (10) from $20.90
Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1111
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Car and Truck Racing and Flying Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 11671433
Model: 116713
UPC: 767649401550
EAN: 0767649401550
ASIN: B000OPPR7W
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Real racing with real consequences. Stay in control or watch as your car dramatically crashes into a barrier and barrel-rolls, crushing every panel and spewing debris across the track. | | • | A wide variety of off-road and rally disciplines to experience: Rally, Hill Climb, Rally RAID, Rally Cross, the CORR desert series, and more. | | • | Photorealistic tracks painstakingly recreated from real-world location photography and satellite data. | | • | Incredibly detailed models of 46 licensed vehicles bring the action to life. | | • | Online play for intense multiplayer competition. |
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Product Description
Racing can be downright dirty! DiRT blends death-defying offroad action, precision control, and the tricked out intensity of street racing into one visually stunning motorsports masterpiece. Choose from a wealth of officially licensed cars and real-world locations, then go careening through gravel, dirt and mud, doing whatever it takes to bring the trophy home.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
I'm sooooo dirty November 16, 2008
Other than Colin Mcrae's irritating "great job, good going, you will get them next time, I think your ready for Pro AM, etc" comments every time you are going into or coming out of a race - this game is a sweet, fun-filled ride.
The graphics are awesome, the game play is realistic and fun, and lastly the vehicles are a quality variety.
Why give you all the details of the game - it is totally worth the money.
Racing MUST OWN November 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great damage details
Great Gameplay
Great Variety of Racing Classes
Great explanation by pastrana (the master)
Needs More vehicles (but it does have all the best ones)
Mini-Games?
 Wonderfull scenarios, low driving realism May 18, 2008
I bought this game because I loved Collin McRae Rally for PC. The scenarios are wonderfull, sometimes it seems like a movie, not CG. Unfortunatelly the driving miss realism. The car's damage simulation are fine but driving feels like the car is floating, it is very difficult to keep it on the road and light turns on the wheel makes the car slide like it was over ice. Compared to Forza Motorsport, Forza is much better in the driving simulation, even without a racing wheel controller you can feel more control over the car. I'd give it 10 for the graphics and car damage simulation but only 5 for the driving simulation.
 Arcade upgraded May 12, 2008
Very good Graphics and handling for an arcade game, fun for a pro gamer and racing fan. better played with racewheel. 10++ for my taste. Like the way the cars get dirt, landscapes are amazing and very detailed. The swtich camera types like no other games, inside the care seems very realistic when driving and makes you see games racing in other level...
Played, Tested, enjoyed...
Great racing game--accessible to a wide audience September 24, 2007
Dirt is a great racing game that features enough customization to cater to a wide range of fans. There are 5 difficulty levels on Dirt, each with varying amounts of realism, damage, and AI skill. Arcade racing fans can set the level on Rookie or Clubman (I believe that's what the 2nd lowest difficulty level is called), while more serious racers can ratchet up the difficulty for a more realistic experience. Dirt features several types of racing in a few different modes and a total of 46 available vehicles you can collect (along with several paintjobs for each), and for the most part is a pretty good game, though it does have some shortcomings. The good and the bad:
THE GOOD:
- Career Mode is great. There are 11 tiers of competition which expose you to all the various racing types in the game, and you can earn money from career mode to buy more vehicles.
- The races are fun and the control is great. Difficulty can be adjusted to suit your needs and the car can be tweaked if you so desire (but doesn't have to be if you don't want to mess with it).
- Several tracks offer quite a bit of variety, and the ability to race different classes of vehicles on most of them provides replay value.
- Great graphics, great sound effects when you drive or crash
- Upon completing a race your time is uploaded and you're given a worldwide rank based on everyone who has ever run the race. Nice touch.
THE BAD:
- Championship Mode is, ultimately, pointless. Sure, it's a great idea to have Championships of 15 or 30 races (or more if you choose the long option), but when you win a Championship you get no money, no trophy--not even a cutscene of any kind. Couldn't there be SOME kind of award, even if it was a new skin for the vehicle you won the championship in?
- Multiplayer lacks, both on and offline. First, there's no split screen multiplayer, which is annoying. But even online play is limited to only 2 kinds of events where you don't actually see your opponents but are only aware of their time relative to yours. This would be okay (and doesn't bother me that much), but communication between opponents is limited as well.
- The frame rate can suffer sometimes, though this doesn't happen often.
Dirt is a great game overall, but a few shortcomings keep it from being a spectacular game. Why not offer money or some kind of prizes in Championship Mode? And why not allow the XBox mileage achievements to be earned in other modes of play (you can only get the mileage in career), which might encourage more people to play online rather than playing the career over and over again? Still, if you're a fan of racing at all I highly recommend Dirt since it's few flaws are not enough to keep this game from being a lot of fun.
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