![]() ![]() Codemasters however didn’t miss out on the chance to tip their hat to the game’s inspiration, Colin McRae, and after players have won all the X-Games events, they can take part in the Colin McRae Memorial Challenge which is a really nice touch, especially as you get to race against personalities that were close to him Valentino Rossi, David Coulthard, his father Jimmy, brother Alister, and others. A definite missed opportunity to make them more loud and lairey. There are 100 career events in all with 3 X-Games events to tackle – they're called X-Games events, but in truth, they are just a series of events tacked together with a small celebration scene if you win. Head outside the trailer and you can check your rides and what tournaments are going on online. Players can then choose their events via a huge map in their trailer, check out their stats, access the multiplayer and then be on their merry way. From there players can soak in the the festival, X-Games party atmosphere of whatever country they’re currently in. The delivery of the career mode's interface is leap years ahead of any other innovative menu systems on the market as it throws players into their own trailer in a first person perspective. The latter four were obviously introduced to fit in with the new X-Games vibe. The game modes are your standard fare brought over from the original, with Codemasters deciding to axe the crossovers, hill climbs and painful desert bus rides (yay!), and introduces trailblazers (essentially hill climbs but without the hills), gatecrasher challenges, last man standing races, domination events and throwdowns (essentially one on ones against the game’s many pros). This means you’ll be jetting all around the world to 10 different countries and getting involved in 8 different game modes. That is until you’re offered an olive branch in the form of Colin McRae’s Subaru Impreza STi by Travis Pastrana, and told to make a name for yourself. Players will start off as a rookie in the career mode, a lonely morsel with no companions to talk to. Gone is the elegant, but simplistic pyramid structure and in comes the “tour” aspect of the title. ![]() The main changes come in Dirt 2’s structured career mode. The engine is very much the same otherwise with a few barely noticeable tweaks, but if it’s not broke, don’t fix it, right? You can expect to see water on the tracks this time around which can affect handling and slow you down a little. It’s nothing major, and after a few races it’ll become second nature, but the cars definitely felt a little stiffer to handle, which essentially brings the handbrake in to play more often than not. Those familiar with the original will notice that the cars, trucks and buggies handle a little bit differently this time around. ![]()
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