Best Funracer. Mp again a joke

As already written in the title showdown in my opinion
the best arcade racers I have ever played. What has pleased me personally is the fact that the team behind the Dirt series
since the third part of the series really varied with a
Multiplayer has employed. There are total of 4 race categories in Showdown:

1. Racing
- Race-Off: normal race with up to 8 players on the track
- Domination: race in which the best lap times of individual sections are evaluated and at the end make up the score.
- Elimination: race in which is gradually expelled by the driver in last place.

2. Demolition
- Rampage: in an arena to the opponents will be driven and pushed to get points.
- Knock Out: almost identical to "Demolition". The only difference is that you can be pushed out of the arena. Say, the arena is a small platform in the case.
- Hard-Target: a player tried so long to "survive" until the others have destroyed him. Say, one against all.
- 8-Ball: on courses similar to the race of 8 and obviously designed to be that it crashes so correctly between the rivals.

3. Hoonigan
- Trick Rush: similar to the Gymkhana game mode of Dirt3 the player has on a ground land as many tricks as possible.
- Head-2-Head: on a one-way course work through gradually and tricks in this case be of course as soon as possible.
- Smash-Hunter: the player must destroy erected cardboard walls in a certain order as soon as possible.

4. Party (only playable online multiplayer!)
- Smash - & - grave: 2 teams have a "flag" for as long as possible. If the player hit by an opponent's car, it has lost the flag.
- Transportation: the player must collect a flag and bring it to a certain point. The player with the most points wins.
- Speed ​​Skirmish: a checkpoint race in which the player various checkpoints must run over. The fastest driver wins.

Review:

Gameplay - is in Dirt: Showdown is a pure Funracer. The controls are pretty simple (the proof is that I've also won races in multiplayer;)). In many game modes, the player has a boost of recovered through normal driving again. Say, you can not consistently go with Boost. The vehicles have no strong differences in terms of control. The differences are at the level of Dirt2. So it GBT no strong differences. Fast cars are offset by weak Krosserie (the fastest car can also be the fastest destroyed). This is also true the other way around.

Unlike Dirt3 missing at Showdown Unfortunately, the cockpit camera. Apparently the developers were too lazy to create creative cockpits for unlicensed cars. These dominate the number of vehicles. Only the Hoonigan vehicles are licensed as visible. Too bad because modes like Knockout and Demolition would cockpit determines an enrichment.

There are also plenty of choice of routes. However, these are similar to very. Thus, it may be a player no matter what relative distance you drive. Also, all routes are adapted to the arcade Feelin. This means hardly out forderne curves and many jumps.

Graphic - Unlike Dirt3 has done in my opinion little to nothing. In my opinion, not a problem because Dirt3 still looks great. In my opinion, even better than Gran Turismo 5. While the cars are in GT5 shown in greater detail (at least the premium vehicles), but everything else looks really sterile and dead. In Showdown you again many confetti cannons is in the rest of this also in Dirt2 were often used. In Dirt3 had it almost completely dispensed with.

Sound - the sound listened very well to a 5.1 system. Heavy bass, reasonable heights and a really good soundtrack leave nothing to be desired. If you like Dubstep, Drum & Bass or rock comes here fully at its expense. Since Dirt2 really able to convince each soundtrack.

Negative aspects:

- As already mentioned above, the cockpit lacks perspective - unfortunately. But you can certainly live with. Especially in Funracern this perspective does not have the status as at a race simulation (which manages nowadays no longer without cockpit).

- The multiplayer menu is like Dirt3 just complete crap. I can not imagine that just 20-30 people playing in Europe the game online me. Furthermore, you do not have the opportunity to see at "Pro Tour" which races with how much people just running are. You will simply threw somewhere. And there is obviously a lack of players often been with me so that I had to automatically open a new game. Furthermore, there are in the lobbies no chat feature. I think it can be really helpful a function in racing games, and all games. Especially if there is a jam session - here the player who opened the game all freedoms bezgl of game modes etc. With a chat function could work better together.. Of course you can also be a microphone / headset use, but only 20% use / have a.

- Trophies: for those who remember the platinum trophy to earn: hurry up! You have to reach the online Level 30 for example. And that lasts really long. I have many a time my PS3 running to host overnight so can the level boost at all makes sense. Here's a tip for boosting:

Select the online mode "Party" from. Fixed a rubber on the left analog stick, and another to the R2 button. Thus you ride ever not be kicked in the county and will because you are AFK (away from keyboard). Zudemist here important that nobody does any points. Thus, each player will be first and get the maximum number of Experience Points.

Otherwise, the trophies are really easy to earn. It can happen that a trophy is not enabled (buy all cars). When this bug occurs you have to virtually start all over again. I would advise everyone to only the multiplayer trophies to work. Because if you have to create a new profile, then is also the online Level go

Conclusion:

Showdown is a super Funracer. What the selection of modes concerns perhaps the best Funracer in video game history. And for 'nen scarce "Zwanni" really can not complain.