You can be sitting at the top of the leaderboard after the first couple of stages of an event only to lose your headlights five minutes into the next race, forcing you to limp home while you’re straining to see the solid grey of the track in front of you. It doesn’t take much for it to all go wrong.
#Dirt rally shakedown series#
It all adds to the series already impressive level of realism though, which will please the hardcore, while more casual players can probably get away without giving it too much thought. In what was already an exceedingly tough sim racer, Codemasters have really just doubled down on the difficulty for those further down the running order. It’s much more nuanced than the arcade stylings of last generation’s Sega Rally, but there’s still a clear difference between an early run and a later one. The headline feature this racing sequel brings to the track is surface degradation, with the track becoming more uneven, with deeper ruts and troughs the further down the running order you are. If you want a rally game that captures that feeling of a few inches being the difference between success and wrapping yourself around a tree, then Dirt Rally 2.0 has you ably covered, especially if you fancy taking a spin in one of the viciously difficult RWD racers.ĭirt Rally 2.0 goes to great lengths to really put you in the role of a rally driver, and even the loading screens flick away with information about the track you’re about to tackle, from its elevation above sea level to the time of day that your slot is at. You’ll need to be ultra-sharp just to stay on the course, with the previous game’s precise handling model returning as you attempt to negotiate the often exceedingly narrow routes. This is a game where it’s you versus the track everything else is an afterthought. Once you’re happy with your set-up – you can take part in a good few shakedown’s before the next stage of any event to check – then it’s time to race, and while there’s a bevy of other racers out there trying to outdo you as you hurtle around, the only thing you actually see while rallying is the time. It’s all given a decent enough explanation that even someone with only a passing interest in cars will be able to tailor their vehicle to their liking. You can tune pretty much every aspect of your cars, from the ratio of each of your gears to your tyre compound (a new feature for Rally 2.0), and even how many spares you’re going to bring. Fortunately those good looks are backed up with some gaming nous, and there’s all of the expected settings for armchair racers to delve into to tweak a car’s underpinnings before you take it out onto the course.
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