While I thought this deliberate omission would lead to frustration, in truth I rarely felt the need for it and instead made more of an effort to learn where best to take risks on courses.Ĭareer mode presents you with five event groups, each comprised of numerous races. There's also no rewind feature, a series mainstay for years. While Dirt 5 has some traditional rally stages, they are not the focus and are not multi-stage affairs - plus you have the entire pack of opponents jostling with you, which isn't very pure rally.Īlso missing is a co-driver, so you don't get useful info on upcoming corners. If you want the point-to-point stage events, Dirt Rally is there for you. Importantly, Dirt 5 is a very different experience to the Dirt Rally series. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. This is a longwinded way to say that Dirt 5 is a top-notch arcade racer, and one that fills a gap that very much needed filling.

Dirt 5 is such a game, letting me feel like I'm in The Matrix and have taken that special pill from Limitless. I get enough of being okay in everyday life, so when a racing game makes me feel like I am one with the car I think a special part of my brain unlocks. I enjoy feeling great at video games even if I'm bang-average. I missed it then and may just have to download it on my Xbox One now that it's free.Ĭheck out what's about to leave the free Games with Gold in December here.Codemasters moves Dirt firmly into arcade racer territory, with great success. Army of Two is a co-op third-person shooter that earned some praise and plenty of hate back when it came out. Tomb Raider: Underworld was the last game in the series before the big overhaul/reboot that gave the series new depth, better graphics and a brand new Lara Croft. This appears to be the same.but for free maybe mediocrity doesn't really matter. I've played earlier entries in the top-down hack-and-slash Adventures of Van Helsing series and they seemed perfectly fine but nothing particularly special. Apparently it didn't translate as well to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. I liked it fine, and it made great use of the system's second screen. Of these, I've only played Zombi, and I've only played that game on Wii U where it was originally called ZombiU and released as a Wii U launch title and exclusive.

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