Dirt 3 - PC Game Review

Dirt 3 is a well know race game, focusing more on rally style race.

Personally, I had never played it before. But there was a sale on Steam yesterday, and since it has such a nice rating on Metacritic, I decided to jump in.

First of all, it is a somewhat big download - 11GB. But Steam was doing well yesterday so it was pretty quick.

One unpleasant surprise is that use's Microsoft Live. This time it just added some annoying delays, but no real problems.

The game has a lot of talk and screens before you race. Graphics are just beautiful, particularly the cut scenes and cars.

One other thing I noticed is the use of controller vibration (I'm using a MS XBox controller), which is very nice on the race start, but not so fun after.

There are plenty of offers of car packs and more on live, which are only mildly annoying.

I started out on casual, so there are a lot of assists enabled. The most obvious assist effect is a line in the middle of the track, displaying the optimum path, and color coded to display if you are going too fast to make the curve.

There is a nice feel on the difference between types of surfaces, such as gravel, asphalt and dirt, too.

Overall, however, I didn't really enjoy the racing, which makes the whole highly competent thing moot.