There are five types of challenges: Airtime (self-explanatory), Trailblazers (time trials), Gatecrasher (pass through gates at while traveling above a certain speed), Powerslide (spend as much time as possible sliding), and Last Man Standing (last place is disqualified after each lap, like in the Burnout series's Eliminator races). What little damage you do manage to incur disappears after each race.Īs for the aforementioned challenge mode, it's more of a gimmick than a reason to invest any significant amount of time. Cars are almost completely impervious to damage, meaning that (A) there are no cool crashes and (B) at least in the early tracks, you can use other cars to help you turn by running into them. This is a staple of the sim genre and probably couldn't have been avoided, but (as sim fans already know) it hurts the realism more than it helps it.
Also, while steering is a little tough in any racing sim, we found the off-road tracks in this game unusually unresponsive, especially with the "pro" assists and regardless of the controller setup.įor arcade fans hoping to cross over, the biggest bummer will be that this game uses licensed cars. It's quite difficult to keep the car on the track by tilting the Wii-mote (with or without the Wii Wheel), meaning you have to stick with the considerably less fun Wii-mote and Nunchuk or Classic Controller options (Gamecube controller support would have been nice for those who don't have Nunchuks or Classic Controllers, though we can't imagine too many people like that exist). In a way it's nice not to have to make so many decisions, but this concept is taken way too far here.Īnother problem is the controls. You can't customize the few rally cars and off-road trucks you have access to, either, so getting through this title is pretty much a matter of taking what the game gives you and doing the best you can with it. To make matters worse, you can choose from only a couple of vehicles on each track. There are lots of tracks, but they unlock so slowly that the game is almost linear.
You can play arcade races, challenges (more on those in a bit), and local multiplayer (up to four players), but the main focus here is the World Tour. Every racing-sim fan, and probably even some arcade-racing devotees, will find these early races boring.Īlso, the game lacks online support and in general doesn't have a whole lot of options.
DIRT 2 PC CONTROLS FULL
True, we used the medium setting for assists (amateur, between clubman and pro), but in some cases we even crashed, backed the car up to get it going in the right direction again, and accelerated to full speed, all without a single car passing us.
There are four sets of about ten races each (you unlock the higher ones by beating the low), and we breezed through the first two with all 20 gold medals almost effortlessly. However, for those content with the Burnout series, and for those already well-versed in the art of the racing sim, DiRT 2's overall questionable quality makes it a poor purchase and only a decent rental.įor one thing, we're not kidding when we talk about "comically low" difficulty. The difficulty starts off almost comically low and ramps up gradually, so DiRT 2 is just about the perfect gateway drug for arcade fans who want to give sims a try - most true sims are too difficult for a beginner to enjoy much at first. There's even a good deal of rubber-banding to keep the races tight and competitive. At the same time, however, it's not so demanding that you need to follow a racing line to learn the tracks, and you don't even do your own shifting.
DIRT 2 PC CONTROLS DRIVERS
As you'd expect, it eschews the gimmicks and exaggerated physics of arcade racers, and it forces drivers to slow down rather than simply sliding around all the curves. Perhaps the best way to describe the Wii version of DiRT 2 is that it's a racing sim for people who don't like racing sims.
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