Waste of time: go play DiRT 2.
DiRT series used to be my favourite racing games. I have all 3 of them now, and I can say for sure that the third is the worst.
There will be huge loading times, annoying very slow due to retarded animations menus, ****ed up sounds but that's nothing compared to what this game has done to people who love the series.
DiRT comes up in our minds like a very high quality accessible rally simulator. Well nothing from that remained in DiRT 3. I am sorry to tell you that:
-Physics is screwed up big time. Every move of the car, every turn, EVERYTHING is exaggerated. You pull your controller stick (don't even try to play it with a keyboard) 1 angle, the car immediately starts sliding. Touch a small stone on a road while driving at 30km/h and your car will fly into the sky.
-Accessibility disappeared with the realistic physics obviously. Playing this with a controller may help on the easy difficulty (though that just plain boring) but to get through the game on intermediate you need a racing wheel.
-The retarded competitors replicas have been cut out (thank god), but the graphics, however did not improve. As a point of fact DiRT 2 looked better to me. Cars in DiRT 3 look like they are from podium and they remain that way unless you drive through some scripted part of the track, where your card suddenly gets all DiRTy and ****
DiRT 3 switched sides and is trying to be a rally Gran Turismo now. The thing is: to be a rally Gran Turismo you need to have Japanese love for work and a patience of a tiger. Codemasters have neither. Some people may find the retarded physics "chellenging". Some may claim I am just trolling because the game is too hard. Think what you will. I have completed all DiRT games on highest difficulty. I have played Gran Turismo 5. And I warned you about this one.
I just realised that I must add this line:
I gave this game a low score as a fan of the series, in which DiRT 3 is a big step down. If you have not played DiRTy games yet, feel free to add 3-4 points. It's not a bad game. It's just way worse than DiRT 1 and worse than DiRT 2.