Dirt 2.0

After playing Dirt 5, I Was Curious About Other Dirt Games.

The Change Was Nice

I’m not going to lie; Dirt 5 is a beautiful game. a lot of cars, tracks, career mode is fun until you end up online and that when it ends for me. After spending time in multiplayer with overly aggressive NPC, I was curious about other Dirt games. There was a Steam sell and I picked up Dirt 2.0. Man is it different. Even though Dirt 2.0 is an older title, I wanted to know if it was as annoying as Dirt 5’s online. So, I bought it. After the game downloaded, I jumped on and it felt different. It’s like care was involved when this game was created.

Free Roam: Testing Out Your Ride

I noticed Free Play, noticed Free Roam and jump on. The map looks like an industrial site, with a garage, dirt and asphalt tracks, a small jump section and a very small strip filled with water to drive over. In this area, before heading out, you’ve chosen the type of car from a wide variety. Once you’re in the dirt fish map, you can spend time fine tuning your ride and tested through on the tracks provided too you. You can push the car as hard as you want, mod up gears, ride height, types of tires, don’t misunderstand me, the tuning is not intense like, say, Project Cars 2. Anyone can sit there and learn through trial and error. Nevertheless, just the sheer freedom to fine tun my rides, test and push was a good thing for me. You can even save your tunes.

Rally Cross

Dirt 2.0 is split in half; half is Rally and the other half is Rally Cross. The rally cross are just circuit type races with a mix of asphalt and dirt, some have small jumps. You also need to take a joker lap once before the race ends. NPC, unlike Dirt 5’s multiplayer race, NPCs were program with logic and sense. Depending on the difficulty, you felt as it was a challenge. It’s shame that this style of racing wasn’t implemented in Dirt 5. However, the only frustrating part of racing the rally circuits was when I would get flat. There is was no way to fix your flat, no pit stop either. At that point you just have to leave the race and start over. If I overlooked something, then my bad, but as it stands, there should have been and option to repair your tire and keep racing. Aside from that hitch, it’s really fun.

Rally

The other have is composed of point-to-point rally. Between the rally and rally cross, you have twenty-six courses in total. What I love about the rally is the number of stages you can add. In between the stages, you can add a pit with a timer, to fix your ride, change tires and if you have enough time, you can go grab a smoke, a snack, a drink, get back and go on to the next races. The races are straight forward, and tack is narrow. You can easily total your ride. If you do, you can re-spawn. If you are carrying a spare tire of tow, you can change the tire with a push of the button. The courses are not only beautiful to look at, but with enough practice, the right tunes, you’ll be flying through every rally stage. Providing you don’t cheat. And I know you don’t, right?

Dirt 2.0 is a fantastic sim off-road racing game. Dirt. Asphalt. Snow, Day and Nighttime cycles, Rain, is just a joy to race and spend time in until the next Dirt arrives.