Finally Codemasters goes their separate ways

A year ago, Dirt 3 went on sale, I was really looking forward to the rally tracks, since Codemasters Rally fans has promised more than 60% rally us, but then came the disappointment: The routes were much too short and there was way too few, then you thought huh what lost this Gymkhana here.

Then Codemasters has announced Dirt Showdown and when I saw the first trailer I thought, Oh no what happened to the series, but Codemasters has said that this will be a spin-off series and Dirt 4 finally serious and realistic is and it is there almost only go in the rally, finally goes Codemasters separate ways.

So but now the game itself:

I've played it for some time and am now in the Champions stage in the Dirt Showdown Tour and what can I say? It really makes a lot of fun!

I lead times all in the pros and cons table together what I liked and did not like:

Pro:

-The Events in Dirt Showdown Tour are very varied and there are a lot of different disciplines (Race off, 8 Ball, Ram Page, Knock Out and many more Events How)
Class of super soundtrack fits the game (rock and House and a few hip hop songs, I stand more on the rock songs)
-A Splitscreen mode is (here you can just about all dirt against your friend on a split screen making disciplines, with or without AI and of course with difficulty, especially Ram Page is doing is real fun)
-The Online mode is the heart of this game in the previous parts you have gotten when a person is in a reingedonnert, in this game, that goes without saying, because it comes to crash, making already bock.
Vehicles can tune (speed, strength, and handling)
-Grafisch It is again better than Dirt 3 (you can tell it's a drilled Dirt 3 graphics engine)
-In The race there are many spectators, fireworks, neon lights and many more. have here, which fits very well.
-During The race you can adjust the difficulty level themselves and then the race immediately restarted with the new schwierigketisgrad, so no charging in menu
-Various weather conditions like snow or rain are back again
-There Is a leaderboard system so that you can compare the times or the dots with your friends, you really fun much to beat the best time, if many of your friends own the game
-If You have completed the Showdown Tour, you can you let off steam in Yokohama and Battersea and find all 100 hidden packages and handle more than 100 missions.

Neutral:

-The Difficulty to Pro's already a teaser (especially because I have often chosen the highest level of difficulty in the äteren parts as it went, it was fordernt, but to create yet, at showdown that's a tough nut, but if you rangeht hard work already, but not for one can, as already mentioned above, the set schwieriegkeitsgrad in the game itself, then it suits, only for people (like me) that it would like to have a bit heavier, should already make an effort to to get first place, as the saying goes, practice makes perfect :)

-The Splitscreen already makes mood, just might be a tick harder the difficulty, I have chosen the highest level of difficulty, and the AI ​​is much too easy, the opposite of the AI ​​on PRO in the Dirt Showdown Tour, you have the Race off Start at the back with his pals, so you do not go all the time by the opponents of which I think is a pity, but not tragic, because you can adjust the starting position to the rear and must fight forward.
-You Can in offline mode, only the Dirt Tour ride, here the single player mode is unfortunately deleted, so you can not go racing their own, if you want this, you have just one race in the Showdown Tour Select, I did with the predecessors also liked, simply select an event from the menu what you is most like and already can start it, here you have to stop in the Showdown Tour Select a race, because you have to give something in the menu rummage around until you have found the event that you wants to drive. is not tragic, but pity.
-The Season in the Dirt Showdown Tour is ok, but Codemasters Racing would calm can pack an more events, well is just so, but I know other games that have a much shorter season.

Cons:

-Some Routes have been copied from Dirt 3 and having added just few jumps and barrels and other small obstacles as well as the names of the routes changed (this has me as Dirt 3 owners a bit annoyed, but really it's clear after such a short development time, that you simply reinkopiert share routes from the previous one, here Codemasters would he prefers longer been tuned and have new content added)
-Gummiband KI spühren (especially the clear spührbar on the PRO level, hardly one is past the opponents you come to few seconds at enormous speed from nowhere on you to and if you have bad luck, it crashes into the back and you you can do it all over again, which is really very annoying, so it's just across the Dirt Showdown tour, really very frustrating)
-There Are in offline mode no more Level, which I find a pity that I have with the predecessors liked because you could indeed in career experience points or fans gather and always ascend one level, the issue here no longer in offline mode )
-Battersea Was unfortunately also 1: 1 copied from Dirt 3, only the dusk is new, the rest of them did not 1: 1 copied from Dirt 3, which is dirt 3 owners something irked at the beginning.
-In The moment there is a trophies bug namely trophies Pros and Cons hehe ne fun, PRO and legend not be unlocked, I do not know why that is, I Codemasters sent an email and it looks like work attached to a patch.

Note to the bugged Trophies: I got the trophies at last, as I have in PRO and legend in the finals each selected the first car, it has finally "BLING" :)

My conclusion:

Let's be honest: I was initially really skeptical about the new dirt part is concerned, I thought what Codemasters hired with the series? However, according to Codemasters This is a spin off of the series, which is the heart of FlatOut fans higher and we rally fans with dirt 4 hopefully finally a really good realistic rally game is made.
But this route recycling and rubber band AI does bring the game on a 4 star, but the fun factor I have online mode especially set for the 5 stars, if you have liked FlatOut and want to have a very fun online mode, then you will also like this game, it really makes a lot of fun. Finally Codemasters goes separate ways, and does not pack everything into the blender into it, so I find it best.

Let's hope the best for Dirt 4, I can not imagine that Codemasters again Gymkhana packed in there because they have an own goal shot, if that were really the case, because that was in Dirt 3 precisely the main problem in DiRT Showdown it does not matter, as it as already mentioned, a spin-off of the series, but what Codemasters has promised fans of Dirt 4 must be complied with.

Dirt Showdown is for me almost a Flatout 3, ie a refund, if you know the original 3rd part of Flatout series, then you know what I mean.