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 :(
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 :(