[Official] DiRT 2

[solardog]

Yeah there is no doubt the gfx have been improved by quite a large amount, there is no fault with them as far as I could see in the demo.

The handling sucks though. Definitely made it worse than Dirt 1's.

Damnit! Dirt 1 was among the worst of the worst in terms of handling. One of main gripes people have with Codemasters rally games is mostly handling, its that empty tin can on a nail center pivot thing. I cant believe they are doing it again. Why are they still going with that?

[san.W10]

Damnit! Dirt 1 was among the worst of the worst in terms of handling. One of main gripes people have with Codemasters rally games is mostly handling, its that empty tin can on a nail center pivot thing. I cant believe they are doing it again. Why are they still going with that?

codeM has been usin 4-point physics or something for car handling since Dirt1.

imo, they dont need to put that much effort into physics, coz they made dirt1 over the top arcade game. will wait & see what dirt2 does with 4-point crap.

CMR05 was the last game which had that pivot thingy, but cmr05's car were better than dirt1 :p

anyone here have cmr05 now?

[san.W10]

ATI show off their latest DirectX 11 Graphics Cards using DiRT 2

Chief Technical Officer talks about using DirectX 11 to make DiRT 2 look as stunning as possible.

:D

[solardog]

codeM has been usin 4-point physics or something for car handling since Dirt1.

imo, they dont need to put that much effort into physics, coz they made dirt1 over the top arcade game. will wait & see what dirt2 does with 4-point crap.

CMR05 was the last game which had that pivot thingy, but cmr05's car were better than dirt1 :p

anyone here have cmr05 now?

Huh, you know what? I agree with that. Codies just sucks at the physics thing in general I guess. Well if they are going arcade then give us some fun arcade physics and give the cars some weight.

[solardog]

codeM has been usin 4-point physics or something for car handling since Dirt1.

imo, they dont need to put that much effort into physics, coz they made dirt1 over the top arcade game. will wait & see what dirt2 does with 4-point crap.

CMR05 was the last game which had that pivot thingy, but cmr05's car were better than dirt1 :p

anyone here have cmr05 now?

Huh, you know what? I agree with that. Codies just sucks at the physics thing in general I guess. Well if they are going arcade then give us some fun arcade physics and give the cars some weight.

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Sorry, double post. No way to delete? Board seems laggy

Edited August 25, 2009 by solardog

[san.W10]

DiRT 2 HD Gameplay Montage by BenBuja (machinima)

from the guys who made some really cool GTA4 stunt, funny, montage videos

:rofl: @ 1.39

codeM said a lot about 'jumps' in dirt2, well these guys show us what codeM meant :rofl:

[ViperAFK]

This game looks really fun, and incredibly sexy.

Screw realistic handling, those crazy jumps and crap look really awesome, and so do the crashes :p

[MR_Candyman]

Honestly, this made me a bit disappointed. It seems TOO easy to jump, and they stay in the air too long.

[solardog]

Ok, so this aint no sim, but it looks fun...kind of Dirt meets Burnout. Im also bummed as it looks like Codemasters are completely heading in a direction miles away from the CMR games.

[carmatic]

well in that interview video they had before the game was released, they showed footage of rally cars driving alongside snowboarders and dirt bikes, and they even said that modern offroad racing is a form of extreme sport or something to that effect...

so im not really surprised, really....

[solardog]

well in that interview video they had before the game was released, they showed footage of rally cars driving alongside snowboarders and dirt bikes, and they even said that modern offroad racing is a form of extreme sport or something to that effect...

so im not really surprised, really....

Now that I think about it crossover rally is an event at the X-Games.

[+Mystic MVC]

One more week everybody!!! The demo has definitely got worn out on my console, my friends and I have to have the full game. Any word on local co-op/multiplayer?

[san.W10]

^doesnt the demo have local mp?

anyways, codeM has mp forum-

DiRT 2 - Racing Teams & Multiplayer

[rajputwarrior]

codeM has been usin 4-point physics or something for car handling since Dirt1.

imo, they dont need to put that much effort into physics, coz they made dirt1 over the top arcade game. will wait & see what dirt2 does with 4-point crap.

CMR05 was the last game which had that pivot thingy, but cmr05's car were better than dirt1 :p

anyone here have cmr05 now?

i play it on my psp all the time

[san.W10]

oh, psp. :D

i have it on PC.

used to play Lan MP with other forum guys, was fun :D

[Si_]

I played this and to be honest i'm quite disappointed. I was hoping for a realistic rally sim and whats here is some overblown cartoony POS. Granted, it can be fun when you get the big jumps or whatever, but it's in no way realistic and the handling is just shocking. Why they've tagged Colin Mcraes name to it again is beyond me.

[san.W10]

dirt2 is the off road version of grid + some tweaks :p

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

^ We didn't want that though, we wanted a WRC game.

[san.W10]

we cant keep blaming codeM, its not like they said they'll give us Rally game.

blame Sony for locking the official WRC game for their console.

they kept the F1 license too, buggers paid the price :rofl:

no one bothered about the F1 games i guess. :rofl:

dunno why they still have WRC license, if F1 doesn't sell, forget about WRC. lol

[.KICK]

I played the demo and it made me annoyed, how did they go from DiRT to this! They changed too much and the handling is still off! Unless this demo is an early build and the final is totally different.

Hope they don't mess up the F1 game either.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

@San, Sony have always had the WRC license for as long as I can remember, but CMR has always been the better game regardless.

The direction of Dirt 2 was the wishes of CM himself, but I really hope they go back to their roots and create a proper CMR6. Otherwise it's going to be another case where their hardcore fans leave them because they aren't listening to them, in favour of the "casual racer", this time it's the american audience.

[Si_]

we cant keep blaming codeM, its not like they said they'll give us Rally game.

What? Do you even know who Colin Mcrae is? Tagging his name to a game means it is going to be a Rally game, anything else is ridiculous.

[.KICK]

@San, Sony have always had the WRC license for as long as I can remember, but CMR has always been the better game regardless.

The direction of Dirt 2 was the wishes of CM himself, but I really hope they go back to their roots and create a proper CMR6. Otherwise it's going to be another case where their hardcore fans leave them because they aren't listening to them, in favour of the "casual racer", this time it's the american audience.

Screw WRC, I want Dice to bring out another Rallisport Challenge :wub:

[san.W10]

What? Do you even know who Colin Mcrae is? Tagging his name to a game means it is going to be a Rally game, anything else is ridiculous.

lol

have you been to the codeM forum?

you can see the biggest rally + cmr fans there asking questions to codeM, codeM dont even bother to reply, some 13yr old retard will come & say "stop whining, dirt rocxxxxxxx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!! "

i believe thats been the case since CMR02.

my first CMR was CMR04 , so i dont know the old cmr's well, i really loved it, it was slightly realistic & it was FANTASTIC as a rally game. & then came CMR04 v2 - cmr05 :D , i loved it, tho it was a bit easy compared to cmr04.

& everybody knows that the sole reason codeM has put Colin McRae's name on their title is to sell the game in Europe. (does USA version carry his name?)

Tagging his name to a game means it is going to be a Rally game, anything else is ridiculous.

i think you're gonna be more ****ed off than rest of us :p

codeM has been telling that theres' a 'Colin McRae Memorial' race in dirt2.

it seems more of an 'last minute' thought than a proper respect for the 'mad max'.

a real tribute to Colin McRae would be remake of his Championship winning year into a game.

all the countries, stages, in full + weather effects.

or just remake of cmr02 in dirt2 engine.

dirt2 is not for rally fans. its for XGames fans.

see at the end people like you & me - rally fans - are left whining :(

@San, Sony have always had the WRC license for as long as I can remember, but CMR has always been the better game regardless.

The direction of Dirt 2 was the wishes of CM himself, but I really hope they go back to their roots and create a proper CMR6. Otherwise it's going to be another case where their hardcore fans leave them because they aren't listening to them, in favour of the "casual racer", this time it's the american audience.

atleast dirt had 'some' rally in it.

xgames is popular in USA, codeM wanted to make money, CM starred in xgames=rest=history :D

Edited September 3, 2009 by san.W10

[+Mystic MVC]

^doesnt the demo have local mp?

anyways, codeM has mp forum-

DiRT 2 - Racing Teams & Multiplayer

A friend and myself looked last night and the demo appears to have XBL multiplayer but no local. I asked because on that same screen they have "System Link" which is grayed out but I never saw a local MP where you could both race on the same screen.