Speaking of the long term, the leaderboards in Dirt 4 are now multi-platform, allowing you to pit your racing mettle against folks from non-PlayStation lands for the foreseeable future. Sure, such an offering falls a little short of a true track editor in all fairness, but it offers enough creative latitude for most players that it will provide Dirt 4 with an extra set of legs in the long term. Serving as a procedural track generator, Your Track enables would-be racers to tailor a number of different parameters to create a unique track each and every time. In case it isn’t obvious already, you’re always learning in Dirt 4, and perhaps nowhere is that more keenly evident than in Land Rush.Ĭomplimenting all of these modes is the Your Track functionality. A fully off-road jaunt across wide, dusty, desert tracks and other such untamed surfaces, Land Rush forces the player to reevaluate their knowledge of rallying, as the sweeping wide corners and relentlessly undulating peaks and troughs do little to tap into any previous lessons that have been received behind the wheel. What is more than a little different and is a mode that returns from last year’s Dirt Rally however, is Land Rush. Rallycross on the other hand, combines track and country environments with much beefier cars to create a much swifter, and arguably more disciplined rallying experience.Īs expected, Historic Rally offers little in the way of surprises, as it allows players to relive classic rallying venues in a number of equally antique looking cars. Of the quartet, Rally follows the expected template of smashing times and positions across a variety of multi-stage rally tracks all over the world. At its core, there are four different racing disciplines in Dirt 4 - Rally, Rallycross, Land Rush and Historic Rally. In furthering the design narrative of what is essentially a bigger, better Dirt Rally, the sheer amount of stuff to do in Codemasters latest rallying effort is frankly dizzying. More than that however, the handling of any of Dirt 4’s vehicles whether they be old-school Mini Coopers or the power packed spectacle of the Ford Focus RS RX supercar, all feel incredibly responsive and fine tuned the developer allowing players a great deal of latitude to tweak the technical minutiae of each car to truly tailor car performance to exactly how they want.Whether you're grinding through gravel, or carving new paths through rain sodden mud, Dirt 4’s handling never feels anything less than sublime.Īn almost overwhelming offering of content A constant gamble where the best drivers have to push every turn and get that extra mile an hour or two out of every corner in order to shave precious hundredths of a second off their time, crushing failure is often just mere centimetres away in Dirt 4, and it’s in that miniscule gulf that exists between victory and defeat that the best drivers find themselves forged out of the asphalt. Ultimately, much like its immediate predecessor, Dirt 4 is a game of limits. Nonetheless, despite such spirited appeals to the less hardcore, the learning curve embraced by Dirt 4 remains nearly every bit as steep as its predecessor, and still demands that the player pile hours upon hours into its substantial offering before the first glimmers of a seasoned driver begin to reveal themselves. Indeed, in fashion not unlike the recent Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2, Dirt 4 really takes the time to explain the nuances and subtleties of its design in a way that we just haven’t seen before, and for that, I (and no doubt others) are endlessly thankful. All in all, it’s a welcome addition a knowing concession to an audience which Dirt Rally has traditionally struggled to resonate with.Įlsewhere, a comprehensive tutorial, coupled together with a set of well-explained and easily graspable lessons help to roll out the welcome mat yet further for series newcomers. Split between ‘Gamer' and ‘Simulation’ handling models that can be chosen at the beginning of the game, the former eases up on the unforgiving handling model of last year's game, instead augmenting it with a number of technical assists to take the stress out of Dirt 4’s otherwise terribly precise and demanding standard of driving. In particular, such improvements in this speak to those players who have typically found the Dirt Rally's dogged pursuit of simulation level realism to be a little too much to stomach at times. Arguably, one of its most significant avenues of progression comes in the form of how Codemasters have addressed the series trademark punishingly difficult car handling model. From top to bottom Dirt 4 improves, refines and polishes just about everything that its critically acclaimed predecessor, Dirt Rally, did when it released on PS4 in April last year.
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