Dirt
by Codemasters
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Video Game Reviews of Dirt
Customer Review: BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is the most amazing game I have ever owned or will own. I have a 8600 gforce and it runs like a champ on it. I LOVE this game. Best game ever.Customer Review: Better-than-Average PC Racing Game
Summary: 3 Stars
I play this on a Vista machine with a Radeon 4870 1GB card and an Intel dual core 3.0GHz processor and 4GB RAM. I can run it well at full HD with the highest graphics settings, and it looks great, particularly in the Australian and Italian environments. I am impressed with the staying power of this game, considering that is a couple of years old. It is fun and a good balance between simulation driving and arcade-style racing.
That being said, I am disappointed that the game won't run on my PC unless I let it through the firewall. When I allow DiRT through, it appears to continuously update the in-game advertising through a hidden file that constantly grows. Eventually this file becomes either too large or is corrupted, and the game won't load. I've found a third-party application that cleans out the file and need to run it every couple of weeks. This is quite annoying.
In addition, there are framerate issues. The framerate is generally very good and smooth, but inconsistent at strange times that don't seem to be related to the number of objects on the screen or detail levels.
Customer Review: Great game!
Summary: 5 Stars
Though I didn't buy it here, I found this gem in a local store for six bucks! New! Would highly recommend this for anyone that likes racing games, especially dirt (no pun intended!). This is my first rally racing game so my enthusiasm may be a bit high (others I've played were NASCAR and TDU), but the game is awesome for graphics, sound, and realism. It blew me away!Customer Review: Great game plagued by huge problems.
Summary: 1 Stars
I love dirt. I love dirt a lot, and I really love rally racing. Why did I give it a one star review? Because I can only play it about a fifth of the time without crashing. It is so plagued by crashing that I can't even get past the loading screen. I've done everything I can to prevent this, from installing a new patch to disabling my internet connection (apparently some installations get a glitch when contacting a specific server) and it crashes on load about four fifths of the time. To make things worse, before I installed the patch it corrupted my save file no less than three times. Yet, I managed to play through the whole game! How is this possible?
Well, I pirated the game originally. I downloaded it illegally, played through the entire game, and love it so much that I went out and bought it. When I pirated it, I had absolutely no problem whatsoever with crashing, it was perfect flawless gameplay and I enjoyed every second of it. But upon buying it and running it on the same computer with the same specs, it's just miserable. I tried to play through the game again, but every time it crashed it would delete my save file until finally I just downloaded a 100% complete savefile and kept a backup of it. I loved GRID too, I was so impressed with Codemasters. Not a single problem with GRID, but the problems with my copy of DiRT are just too absolutely wretched to be overcome.
I totally pre-ordered DiRT 2. Seems like they fixed these issues with GRID, hopefully DiRT 2 won't be as flawed, because it really is a great game...
Customer Review: Copyright keeps crashing machine. Be sure to reboot! I will NOT be getting DIRT 2.
Summary: 2 Stars
Sorry, but they did a crappy job on this one. They dumped the console game into this and did not even pretend to rework a single thing.
Forget using your mouse. The console is the only way to move. If you go in and change the settings, then REBOOT! If you try to launch the game again without rebooting your computer, the copyright kicks in and thinks you are trying to launch a second game. This is probably why so many people are complaining that it is crashing their computers.
The graphics are okay, but I would have been extremely ticked off if I had paid more for THIS. Thank heavens I have GRID to putz around with. I will not be getting DIRT 2. I have no idea how this got such good ratings.
All-in-all, this is still a console game. Forget it.
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.