Dirt 3??

[BubbleBelly542]

I have questions:

1) Is the damage better than the 2nd DiRT?
2) Music? Custom soundtracks?
3) Travis Pastrana?
4) Is it fun?
5) Do people wreck online?
6)Is it worth buying?
7)Is it more realistic? Better physics?
8)More info

 

[prisonermonkeys]

1) Is the damage better than the 2nd DiRT?

It's difficult to compare. What, exactly, are you looking for? Something more realistic? Something more forgiving?

2) Music? Custom soundtracks?

The soundtrack itself is fantastic. Custom soundtracks, however, are not possible.

3) Travis Pastrana?

His car - the #199 Subaru Impreza - is in it. He, however, is not.

4) Is it fun?

Yes.

5) Do people wreck online?

They do in Landrush and Rallycross, but if you drive smartly, you can avoid the carnage. But that's part of the challenge. And if you've been playing for a while and know the stages, you can catch up very quickly (ie there's a watersplash on Portage Canal/County Loop which can seriously slow you down, but if you go to one side, you can go around the watersplash whilst still remainign in the bounds of the track). All other modes use ghosts, so wrecking is impossible. If you host a Landrush or Rallycross event, you can change the settings so that it uses ghosts, too.

As for some of the other game modes - particularly Transporter, Outbreak and Cat 'n' Mouse - crashing into other people is the entire point of the game.

6)Is it worth buying?

How do you judge what makes a game "worth buying"? I, for one, love it and think it's a great game. That doesn't guarantee you'll feel the same way.

7)Is it more realistic? Better physics?

Is it realistic? No. It's not a hardcore simulator. It's more of an arcadde game with simulator physics.

8)More info

On what?

 

[BubbleBelly542]

It's difficult to compare. What, exactly, are you looking for? Something more realistic? Something more forgiving?

The soundtrack itself is fantastic. Custom soundtracks, however, are not possible.

I want realistic LOOKING damage I don't care so much about the mechanical aspect and don't care if it's realistic or not.

Can you give some specifics of the soundtrack?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Well, panels can bend and bits fall off. In gymkhana mode in particular, you can compromise the entire shape of the chassis if you try hard enough because it's impossible to destroy your car in the DC Battersea Compound. However, you will retire from races if your car gets to the point where your chassis is deformed.

As for the soundtrack, don't go expecting well-known artists. As much as I'd love to hear the Foo Fighters of Them Crooked Vultures, most of them are from indie acts. If you want some particular songs to listen to, try Chase & Status' Blind Faith, We Are Scientists' Rules Don't Stop, Manchester Orchestra's I've Got Friends and Chromeo's Don't Turn On The Lights. These are problably some of the better songs in the game. They don't actually play during the races; just during menus and replays.

 

[AOS-]

I think I bent one of the Control arms on the back wheel one time giving it a extreme camber lol

How do you judge what makes a game "worth buying"? I, for one, love it and think it's a great game. That doesn't guarantee you'll feel the same way.

This This This. I really dislike it when people ask that question.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Yeah, you can deform parts of the car a little bit - I shredded both my front tyres ona stadium buggy, once - but once you compromise the chassis, you'll retire from the race. I actually had my first wipeout online the other day. I joined late and was doing pretty well, but then in the final race of the series, it felt like someone had turned my ABS off. I know the game automatically does it to latecomers (so they can't simply show up and dominate someone else's game), but this was different. I'd joined from the second round and limped through without ABS, but at the fifth round, I just went straight off under braking and into a tree.

 

[AOS-]

I always thought your ABS would be turned off only if the host disabled it... not for the reason stated above. But because some people go without ABS.. I've been playing more without it so I don't get that uncalled-for change.