DiRT

Inconsistent level designs spoil the fun.

User Rating: 6 | DiRT PC

By Flippr_NF | Review Date: October 13, 2008

I've played lots of racing games, and Dirt is the first one to give me so much pleasure and frustration from track to track. After a rough start, I decided to take the easy way out and play Rookie level for most of the tracks. On some tracks I win by a mile, but on others I cannot do better than 15th place. What's up with that? Some tracks are amazingly easy, but others are so frustrating as to completely ruin the game experience. Games should be fun, not frustrating.

After almost 8 hours of driving time, I've been forced to look up a cheat code just to access the last few tracks. I'll finish the game by playing all the events, but then it's off to be traded in for something else. There's absolutely no replay value in it for me.

Conclusion: Could've been awesome if it was more consistent, but fails because of the wild range of difficulty from track to track within the same difficulty setting.

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