![]() ![]() Having to gently feather the throttle back on as you leave the corner, as too much shifts all of that weight back over the rear tyres, causing a loss of grip and understeer, not to mention a lack of pulling power from your front-wheel drive car to get you going again. You can really feel the moment that it shifts, as you tap your brakes into a corner with the wheels turned, feeling them dig in momentarily and then the lateral shift as your car makes the turn. All this means that you’ll never have the same experience with the surface of the track twice in quite the same way.Įntering the career mode, I found myself learning the graces of the Lancia Fulvia, a car that’s relatively low on power, but really gives you a feel for how shifting the weight of the car around gives you additional control. Based on where you are in the list of competitors, the stage you’re racing on will be in varied levels of degradation, meaning you’re going to have to contend not only with the twists and turns of the track, but also the wear caused by previous drivers and the current weather conditions. One of the biggest new features is track degradation. The grip on tarmac feels a lot less “floaty” than it did in DiRT Rally, though can still feel a bit too slippy at times. On the whole, physics have been improved in this outing, with corners at low speed now feeling better planted than before. I mentioned back in my review of DiRT Rally that it was the best thing we’ve had since RBR and Rally 2.0 gets us even closer to that mantle. Affectionately known as RBR, the game released in 2004 and is still held in high regard as the most accurate rally simulation out there. The inevitable comparison that DiRT Rally 2.0 has to live up to is how it fares against Richard Burns Rally. Codemasters’ early rally games were known for their point-to-point stages, feverish difficulty and lack of X-Games related shenanigans. It’s a subtle nod to Colin McRae Rally 2.0, released nearly 20 years ago, back in the summer of 2000. ![]() You see, DiRT Rally 2.0 is more than just the next iteration of the game. ![]() So what’s new and improved for 2.0?įirst up though, is the name. With 2.0 we have a follow up to 2015’s DiRT Rally, a title that reinvigorated rally games, giving us a truly hardcore simulation that the genre had been crying out for. There’s a saying that rally “is the art of getting from A to B sideways”, and in DiRT Rally 2.0 this is a sentiment that holds weight, mostly down to the fact that being able to finish a stage in one piece is an art form in itself. Reviews // 18th Mar 2019 - 4 years ago // By Steven John Dawson Dirt Rally 2.0 Review ![]()
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