



This is exactly what it is likely in DIRT 3, except with a souped up motor vehicle. The horse and its rider are tasked with performing a number of tricks and equestrian sequences to gain points. If the name sounds familiar, that is because gymkhana originally comes from equestrian events. Gymkhana is one of the more unique racing elements of the game and you will either learn to love or loathe it. Trail Blazer is rallying without a co-driver and in a superfast car, Land Rush is truck or buggy racing and the other two disciplines gymkhana and Rally Cross, focus on the extreme side of the sport. It is of no surprise that this was our most enjoyable section of the game, as it is Codemasters doing what Codemasters does best, rally games.Īside from rally driving, there are a number of other disciplines to partake in. It is here where you will find the closest thing to the World Rally Championship in the game on the rally side of things. Mixing this up, some time during the game you will unlock world tours of events to partake in. In each season you must gain points from events to unlock the final event before progressing. The crux of the game is found in the DIRT World Tour where over four seasons you must prove to the world that you are the ultimate champion in a number of disciplines. It is instead replaced by him urging you to upload videos to Youtube, one of the main new features of the product. Ken Block once again returns, however, thankfully his annoying 'you did great back there dude' soundbytes are toned down significantly. Yet again, DIRT 3 proves that Codemasters are the masters of the rally genre and it is unlikely that mantle will be taken off them anytime soon.įor those who have played DIRT 2, the game will seem quite familiar, but there is enough here to warrant a third purchase. Released to little fanfare, it not only made Colin McRae a household name to gamers, it had incredibly good graphics and the gameplay proved that a sport once seen to be very mundane outside of Europe could actually be fun to play.įast forward a few generations of hardware and we have the DIRT series, a mix up of Rallying plus many other extreme off road racing sports from around the world. One of the best racing games on the original PlayStation console was Colin McRae Rally.
