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.
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.