I'll give gas, I have fun

The career mode of "Dirt 2", the Dirt Tour is, visually and content appealing: the paddock is the own little caravan, which acts as a nerve center between the race and makes it available are distributed all over the globe Events per prettier map. The can be enabled only through experience points, which in turn are earned in the race. If the number of events initially limited to very few routes, popping up with any medal gained more, so that you will soon have the freedom of choice and constantly gets offered new.

The amount of various events ensures that the racing fun is never boring and you look at the can pick out, on the one feels like:

Classically: Rally and Trailblazer events; The former is one (except for the front passenger) alone on the track on the road, in the latter one starts with MATCHING distance to the front and rear man, where falling back or catching up is possible. The passenger in the rally event can constantly announced route descriptions, which are especially useful if you do not know the route. In rally-cross, however it occurs on round courses to high-powered opponents to eventually possible first to the finish line überqueren.Bild

In "Last man standing" start all cars at the same time, and shall be the last in the race drops out after a short countdown from - this can be very exciting when the time is ticking down relentlessly, while you are fighting with the front man for survival. Otherwise to make a little Domination Race: Here all cars are on the course, but the driving skills performance is partially measured and evaluated. Who drove the best at the end of the race of most sections of time, wins.

In the Events Raid and Landrush you also occurs round courses against other on, only the mode gate Crusher still is fundamentally different from the other races: The course is only denied and is fitted over the entire length with small gates which to run over it applies. Each gate is a time bonus of two seconds; who end up driving the shortest time here wins.

In addition, you must be in single-challenges-known extreme athlete (Dave Mirra, Ken Block and others) prove. In addition, the X-Games waiting in Europe, Asia and the United States in a three-stage race on New Champions, and who would like to connect more events together, can compete with the best of the best at various world tours.

The fleet - thirty-five visually appealing cars - consists of seven vehicle classes, with such jokes as trucks or motorbikes are not included. But there's rally cars, Trophy Trucks, Buggies and Land Rover tired. While it is not possible, every event to go with each vehicle class, but many vehicles can be in the shop for the relevant other class retrofit. The cars themselves make an extremely good figure, whether the paint still shines nicely when starting or the body just completely battered and muddy hurls the finish. The damage model, which already comes to best advantage even in small collisions, does the rest to make the vehicles look authentic beautiful and really dirty.

From the feeling like an arcade game play "Dirt 2" rather than a simulation: On frills was indeed omitted, because there is only gas and brake, but the action-packed and turbulent gameplay appeals to players who want the fun and fast control loops instead of dignified behavior simulation. In relation to multi outweigh greatly to the individual events, where it is still possible to unlock anything if you simply neglected and unloved events never plays.

Because Erfahrungspunkte- and money growth are dependent on the selected difficulty, which can adjust in front of each event and both beginners and professionals brought quick success can refer in their place. The enemy AI is really challenging at times, and also to remember the counterparty, whether towards them behaves like a Rennsau or rather mannered.

Depending on the difficulty level too, is sometimes best as frustration avoided, feature of the game: The replay function. Does this sound familiar: You drive minutes flawlessly, hurtling like a madman on the route, but clean and perfect, is in good spirits, to lay down a best lap ... and jolts shortly before the finish line over a bump, must watch how the uncontrolled vehicle lurches from left to right - and eventually crashing head-on into a rock wall or shoots down a slope while biting into the controller in frustration. But those days are gone, because the replay mode can be the last few seconds of the race at your fingertips Just press rewind, right to the point of driving error. Then you climb back actively to racing a, makes the mistake again and manages to perfectly finish. Depending on how hard you like it, everything is from zero to five Replay uses it.

The soundtrack of the game is at least as well off as the race car itself, it's a shame that the music just sounds between the events and only the roar of the engine and the gravel can be heard under the tire while driving.

Graphically power "Dirt 2" a great figure. Fantastic foresight, beautiful textures, shadows, massive and opulent details routes galore: In thirty-one courses is something for everyone, because of the indoor arena to insanely turbulent rally through desert canyons and everything is represented. In nine countries, there are about a hundred events, including in California, Morocco, Croatia, in China and even in the jungles of Malaysia.

Only two little "quirks" jump in this racing game ever face it: There is no splitscreen mode, which is why you only can gamble against friends or unknown online - here, however, with up to eight players simultaneously. In addition, it is not possible to tune the car. More than new paint and a few gimmicks that you can hang in the cockpit, unfortunately are not in it. Too bad, because this feature would have been the sixth out of five stars. But even so, you do as a racing fan absolutely nothing wrong when they acquire this game.