Ramping up for its first appearance on next-generation consoles, Codemasters has cracked the hood a bit on its next installment of the highly successful and critically acclaimed Colin McRae series. Dubbed DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road in the US and Colin McRae: DIRT in PAL territories (due to name recognition), the game will hit the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC simultaneously in 2007.
Note that screens below are concept images as it's a little too early to show any in-game content yet, but IGN were told that these were created using the reference 3D models that will be featured in the game.
Steam has slashed 75% off of several Codemasters' racing titles including GRID, FUEL, DiRT, DiRT 2 and ToCA Race Driver 3 along with a bundle containing all five titles as part of its weekend deal promotion.
The first DiRT title was released just before McRae's horribly premature passing, and saw Codemasters essentially rip everything up and start again, giving the franchise a face-lift fit for the next-generation. It highlighted the tone of a series moving increasingly further from the realistic, 'pure' brand of rallying in the earlier games to a more arcade-orientated, thrill-seeking approach. Whether seduced by the bright-lights of, for example, Project Gotham Racing, or whether Codemasters were just seeking change for the sake of change lest creative stagnation take hold, DiRT 2 (yes the strange lower case 'I' is intentional) represents the consolidation of this new approach.
Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (Dirt 2 outside of Europe) is a racing game scheduled to be released in September 2009, and is the sequel to Colin McRae: Dirt. This is the first game in the McRae series after Colin's death. It was announced on 19 November 2008 and will feature the late Colin McRae as well as Ken Block and Travis Pastrana.
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nice 3d engine!
Nice looking screenshots. The fact that they are widescreen would suggest these are taken from the 360 or PS3 as well :)
I wonder if could be as good as motorstorm though. I like the fact in motorstorm, you can get all differnt kinds of vehicles. Thats pretty sweet, but this game should be good.
Who cares?? This game is coming out when? Xmas 2007???
Who cares?? This game is coming out when? Xmas 2007???