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Written by Mike Channell
In history there are many moments where soft, squishy humanity has triumphed over cold, unfeeling maths. Like when NASA worked out they could slingshot Apollo 13 around the moon, when Bletchley Park finally cracked the Enigma code or when Russell Crowe scribbled all over that blackboard in A Beautiful Mind. That last one is maybe marginally less significant. We reckon there was probably a similar moment of air-punching, calculator-tossing euphoria somewhere in the Midlands when the final pieces of Dirt Rally 2.0"s physics model fell into place. There has never been a more convincing representation of four tyres slithering around on gravel than in this game and it makes every second you spend sawing away at the virtual wheel a joy. By gaming standards at least, this delivers more fizz than a Sodastream. You might recall the first Dirt Rally game took great strides towards a proper off-road simulation. It was brilliant, but there were tiny, almost imperceptible quirks to the handling model that at best felt a bit odd and at worst would see you nosing embarrassingly into a Welsh bog with no idea what you did wrong. Dirt Rally 2.0, for Xbox One, PS4 and PC, has comprehensively fixed them and now when you end up tumbling down a mountainside you can be consoled by the fact that it was entirely your own fault. Too much of the loud pedal, we"d venture.
Date written: 22 Feb 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14929
In history there are many moments where soft, squishy humanity has triumphed over cold, unfeeling maths. Like when NASA worked out they could slingshot Apollo 13 around the moon, when Bletchley Park finally cracked the Enigma code or when Russell Crowe scribbled all over that blackboard in A Beautiful Mind. That last one is maybe marginally less significant. We reckon there was probably a similar moment of air-punching, calculator-tossing euphoria somewhere in the Midlands when the final pieces of Dirt Rally 2.0"s physics model fell into place. There has never been a more convincing representation of four tyres slithering around on gravel than in this game and it makes every second you spend sawing away at the virtual wheel a joy. By gaming standards at least, this delivers more fizz than a Sodastream. You might recall the first Dirt Rally game took great strides towards a proper off-road simulation. It was brilliant, but there were tiny, almost imperceptible quirks to the handling model that at best felt a bit odd and at worst would see you nosing embarrassingly into a Welsh bog with no idea what you did wrong. Dirt Rally 2.0, for Xbox One, PS4 and PC, has comprehensively fixed them and now when you end up tumbling down a mountainside you can be consoled by the fact that it was entirely your own fault. Too much of the loud pedal, we"d venture.
Date written: 22 Feb 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14929
