After filming Ken Block hooning around a real life version of the Battersea Power Station gymkhana stage from DiRT 3, I got to spend some time with the game. I’ve always been a big fan of rally games, particularly those sporting the name of the late, great Colin McRae. I played DiRT to death, clocking up thousands of kilometres around [...]
Codemasters very kindly invited The Average Gamer to the DiRT 3 – Gymkhana Uncovered press and community day at London’s Battersea Power Station. The event featured WRC rally driver and legendary gymkhana expert Ken Block showing off his amazing driving skills around a real-life recreation of DiRT 3′s Battersea gymkhana track: The event also starred another WRC driver – Kris [...]
Codemasters have released a trailer showing off the group B rally cars that will be making an appearance in their upcoming DiRT 3 game. Obviously the trailer features lots and lots of slow-mo so you can admire the rather lovely looking cars from the now legendary period (1982-86) in the history of rallying. The FIA ended Group B rallying in [...]
I almost need to review Sega Rally twice. Once with the standard 360 controller and once with the set-up that Sega provided us when we visited them in August.
Why? Well, playing Sega Rally whilst sitting in a Sparco racing seat, with force-feedback steering wheel (and pedals) I was in driving heaven. It's perfect. You can feel every bump as your car drives over all the track deformations and as it power slides around another lovely corner.
Age rating: 12+ (PEGI) What is it? It’s a rally game. Think Forza Motorsport or Gran Turismo but with lots of mud (and car damage). Is it fun? Yes. Is it worth the money? £39.99 from play.com Yep. Why? Car damage and speed, the 2 essential elements in any decent rally game. Fortunately Colin McRae’s DiRT has tons and tons [...]
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