This is such a shitty, boring piece of crap. First race I was blown away by the effects, it felt like a scripted CoD mission but as a racing game. But that's the only thing the game has to offer. After a few races you realize that it's mostly a tech demo and the developers forgot to include an actual video game behind the amazing graphics and dynamic weather.

The game has absolutely NO sense of progress. All events feel pointless and after an hour or two of playing you seen it all. It's an endless checklist of races on the same tracks with the same 3-4 cars, because once you bought the best car you don't have to change to another one since all cars feel and drive the same.

Also all tracks are basically the same, no matter if snow, ice, mud or sand. The surfaces all drive the same, it's like you float above the track. All that changes is the background.

What doesn't make sense for me at all are the challenges, why in the hell do you expect me to crash into other drivers multiple times during the race? What's the point? When crashing into other drivers doesn't do ANYTHING. You crash into them full speed and they keep on driving in their lane like nothing happened. Other drivers feel like tanks, and on the topic of the AI drivers. The rubberbanding is borderline criminal. Getting to first place is no problem, but loosing the cars chasing you? Impossible, no matter what you do, driving the most perfect lines, the AI is always behind you only 1 second away waiting for you to make the smallest mistake to overtake. This is why the speed doesn't matter, all that matters that you drive defensive and block your opponents from overtaking. That makes the races feel boring af, because it really doesn't matter how you drive. It doesn't even matter if you win because there is no rewards. All the good stuff is hidden behind a paywall anyway.

Also 50% of the game is events with pickup trucks which are slow af. Why do you want me to drive these slow vehicles this makes the races even more boring. I would love to drive the trucks if the game had nice crashing mechanics, this is what makes trucks fun, crashing into others with full force, but without that it's just a boring experience.

It's like the devs made a challenge for themselves to strip away all game mechanics that make a racing game feel fun.

I miss DiRT 2 :(

Score: 86/100

Story: N/A
There is technically a story in the career mode but I feel like it is so insignificant it's barely worth mentioning and because I spent a good amount of time listening to music or talking to my friends I didn't pay attention anyway.

Gameplay: 10/10
Perfect. In Dirt 5 you basically only use the two triggers but it feels so good to control it doesn't matter. Dirt 5 also combines simulation rally racing with a bit of arcadey control, which I think makes this game a great competitive and casual game. It also offers various different types of races, so even if you don't like a couple of certain types there are still plenty to choose from and almost anyone should be able to beat the campaign.

Graphics: 10/10
Beautiful. Loved using photo mode

Art Direction: 10/10
The varied collection of locations and tracks really gave Codemasters a lot to work with. You have your normal-looking rally tracks in different locations to set them apart and then you have modes like ice breaker and gymkhana which are super colourful and look amazing.

Soundtrack: 5/10
Mostly just generic music you hear in a lot of racing games. Does the job though.

Sound Design: 10/10
This really isn't a surprise. Racing games are known for their great sound design and paired with the dualsense controller's speaker it makes for an immersive experience.

Extras: 7/10
Online is fine and the playground mode is neat but just not for me. Splitscreen multiplayer was fun though.

Overall Fun Factor: 8/10
Would've given this a 9 because this game is genuinely really good and a lot of fun, but promising crossplay and then not actually delivering it to us was really annoying when I tried to play with friends on a different platform.

Overall though I highly recommend Dirt 5 to anyone that likes racing games.

Played on PS5
Play Status: Abandoned

Here is another abandoned game. So, Dirt 5 is a racing game developed and published by Codemasters. Because I abandoned the game, I didn't gave any rating and this won't be a usual review. I will just talk about why I abandoned the game and if I recommend it to you or not.

Firstly, I don't believe that Dirt 5 is a bad game. I certainly didn't abandoned it because it was a bad game. I have been playing Dirt games since 2. I played Dirt 2, 3, Showdown and Rally. But then stopped playing.

I am not a racing game person and it's been a long while since I finished any racing game. But I wanted to try Dirt 5 because I wanted where the series was at right now, how a racing game feels while holding the Dualsense and because it was free with PS Plus.

And I think the first bad thing about the game came right there, Dualsense features. There is full Dualsense support in this game. But it is not good. Adaptive Triggers are fine but they don't feel special. You can guess that it was a last minute addition.

And the default settings for haptic feedback is very strong. I think you can turn it down from the options, not sure but I played Astro, Returnal and Spider Man games in the default haptic feedback vibration and they were fine. In Dirt 5, I really thought I was going to hurt my hands. The vibration is that strong.

Speaking of PS5, this game doesn't look like a next gen game and yes I know, it also came out for the current gen. But Forza Horizon 5 also came to the current gen and I think that game looks miles better than Dirt 5.

Just a reminder, I don't think Dirt 5 is a bad game. But as someone who doesn't like racing games too much, I thought Dirt 5 could impress me with being a launch title for PS5. It didn't unfortunately. It was Dirt 3 2020 Edition for me which is why I abandoned Dirt 5.

If you are looking for a game like this though, I definitely recommend Dirt 5. It still has different modes, maps and it was a fun experience.

It's... another racing game - end review. One which happens to have mostly airless track design, occasionally wonky physics, and an aggressive Mario Kart 64 level of A.I. rubber-banding. The colors and graphics are generally pretty nice but the soundtrack sounds like it's made up entirely of fake songs (a few of them are kind of fine). Also gets docked major points for its bullshit EA pay-to-win tactics where better cars are locked behind paywalls. Fun for a few spurts, forgettable and tedious afterwards - like most of these.

It's been a long time since I've actively regretted buying a game, but I feel this with DIRT 5.

Perhaps I've been spoiled by the Forza Horizon series. Or maybe the rose-tinted specs for DIRT 2 are glued to my face.

But this is an utterly soulless game lacking any sort of personality or defining feature. This is coupled with some of the worst handling of vehicles in a modern driving game, 3/4 of cars here all feel reminiscent of trying to drive on an icy downhill slope. It feels terrible. The less said about the buggies in this game, the better - that a full price AAA game was released with buggy levels in them playing like THAT is beyond me.

Oh, and the Dualsense implementation - the PS5's hidden gem in my opinion - is utterly awful here. It only takes a couple of races to give you pins and needles. Between the vibration and the buggy races I'm not sure this was even playtested.

This honestly tarnishes the 'Dirt' name. I long for another DIRT 2.

15

There's not much to say about this game; it's incredibly dull and empty to the point where if you're 15% through, you've played everything the game has to offer so you're just slogging through the rest of it; especially if you're trying to get some of the more grindy trophies.

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Fase no Brasil: favela e floresta

Saudades dos Dirts de antigamente onde existia variedade de gameplay, belas pistas e por aí vai, mas isso morreu lá no Dirt 3. Esse título é bem fraco, uma repetição de pistas e de modelos de corrida, um sistema de progresso medíocre na "história" que é mais uma linha do tempo.

Falando em pistas, o que dizer da pista do Brasil? Eu sempre vou achar uma gigantesca falta de respeito com o nosso pais quando a representação que fazem da gnt é favela e floresta. Porra, o nosso nordeste é riquíssimo de locais apropriados para rally, como as dunas no Alagoas por exemplo. Aí eles me resumem uma fase no Brasil que é em meio a favela, com floresta e o Cristo no fundo?? Eu sou carioca e essa representação é uma falta de respeito não só com o Rio, mas com todo o pais.

É um jogo fraco, sem conteúdo, sem alma e, principalmente, sem criatividade de inovar ou de trazer o saudosismo dos antigos Dirts de volta.