A demo for the new Colin McRae rally racing game DIRT has been released, which you can nab right here from AusGamers.

If you're an Xbox 360 owner you can also cheggitout on Live.

cool, i loved the previous colin mcrae rally. dl now.

downloading!

holy f*** the gfx are awesome!
the car and track damage is excellent too.
lovin it so far

rocking;
cmr has probably been my favourite driving game franchise over the years

cant wait to check this out

Can anybody verify whether this one has proper force feedback support?

It's also on Live for anyone that has an xbox 360

demo rawks, can't wait for retail

Downloading now at 1.2meg a sec. Hugs optus cable and Ausgamers.

Haven't played a good racing game for a while. Last one I tried was Test Drive Unlimited and that was complete ass.

if you have a 360, try the demo on that instead, beats the s*** out of the pc version. but it has no replay mode =(

Really? What things make the 360 version better?

It's on 360 (sn*****)

Really? What things make the 360 version better?

it doesn't run like ass on the 360 compared to pc

Does anyone else have a wheel for the 360? Man I suck with it but I don't have a table to fasten it to.

Anyone else tried it on their lap and then whacked it on a table and found it s***loads easier? Because I really want to use the wheel but I suck with it so so much :(

I got a wheel. It's 100% easier when it's on a table =P Also you just suck

Cool but I might be able to suck less if I attach it to a table.

TO THE SECOND HAND FURNITURE STORE!

edit: trog also DiRT

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Steering wheel on your lap? damn that'd suck

the 360 wheel kinda has a molded base so it can sit in your lap, or an attachment so it can be put on the edge of a table. I guess with the ff disabled it'd be fine in your lap.

make sure you install Funsta!

http://iigh.iinet.net.au/demo/dirtdemo.zip

iinet mirror ^

edit: trog also DiRT

mixed caps titles should diaf

*delete*

oh dear. s*** game alert

f***off gay menus. oh great no clutch control.

yea it looks pretty, but runs like s*** on minumum on my slightly aging PC.

strange that the harder difficulties were not available..
but the physics on medium only compare to mario kart. have fun console noobs.

richard burns rally is still the undisputed king.




last edited by scooby at 18:25:59 25/May/07

Richard who?

Dick Burns Rally Dick Burns Rally Dick Burns Rally Dick Burns Rally Dick Burns Rally...

PCs can't handle it.

I'm loving this on the 360. Way impressed, will def buy.

Do the physics tend towards realism like the GT games or bend the rules a little in the name of fun like PGR or Need for Speed? Cos I'm not really a fan of super realistic racing sims, but I dig the ones that ease off on the realism just a bit and throw in a smattering of arcade style fun.

Physics are very arcade like, to the point where the car doesn't actually feel connected to the road.

^^^ Really? It seems to have every bump accounted for.

hey installed the game and set it up fine and everything but when i went to start a race it loaded need for speed instead

did i do something wrong

gfx are amazing :) wish i could drive the car tho :( complete noob at "real life" racing games

Looks crazy nice on my 8800GTS on mostly high settings. Chugged like a biatch on the buggy race when there was multiple buggies on screen though.

Cars smash up nice, so much detail even inside the car from 3rd person view. Driver reaches down to change and head moves and everything.


However I also sux very much at the racing with a keyboard. I might get my wheel out later if I could be bothered.

Any1 else bitterly disappointed with the handling? im playing with a driving force pro and it feel like absolute crap. the brakes are also far to good. why cant we have cmr2 physics again :(

at least it looks good.

Handling is absolute crap

This is a game for consoles

consoles win again!

to me the buggy type thing seems to hold onto the dirt a bit too well... like a little bit of braking is enough to turn it around the hairpin without any slide.. And on the uphill thing it felt like i had to work a bit hard to unweight the thing at the back and turn it round.. i've got no idea what a rally car should feel like in that sort of thing but it seemed that mashing the handbrake didn't let the rear swing enough asif the cars were plagued by that horrible 'pivot off a central point' some early rally games experienced..

console wins if you are fagget.

Sounds like someone wishes they had an xbox 360.

I'll definatelky be buying this for my PS3.

heh you bought a ps3.

heh you replaced a 360 with a ps3.

Sure did; it replaced my HDTV set-top box, media centre, and my previous games console (360).

Can you play xvids off your PC? Do you need to unrar tv shows before playing them? Can it play DVDs in ISOs over the network? Does it support x264/h264 format? What about wmvhd?

great graphics, tragically bad car handling. console sim games fail yet again.

Racing games and beat em ups are all consoles are good for

Sure did; it replaced my HDTV set-top box, media centre, and my previous games console (360).

The money I made selling those 3 units covered the cost of my PS3, and then some.

haha you'd f***ing hope it would!

I might be wrong, but don't you need an HDTV set-top box to watch HD free-to-air? I assume the PS3 doesn't have something like that in it, does it?

thanks for the info rec, I think i'll wait to xbmc is ported, which u wouldn't think would take long as the impression I get is it's basically a gui on top of mplayer , then i'll look at getting a ps3 to replace my xbox and upgrade to a hd tv.

I don't think the 360 will ever do it right as microsoft is too focused on leveraging and product cripling cross promotion to release a good product in this fields.

huh?