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Dirt (Series) Review
Posted: 2 years ago, last updated 11 weeks ago.
Author: @GeekDadGamer, Jo Robertson, Rich Adams and Ben Kendall.
Overview
Dirt 5 is the latest game in a series of the extreme sports racing game. Like Forza Horizon or the older MotorStorm games, the series focuses on exuberance and party atmosphere rather than just realism. It's from the team behind the more simulation focused Dirt Rally but with more fantastic fun and extreme scenarios rather than super-realism of that series.
Dirt 5 offers rally-cross, ice racing, stadium super trucks and off-road buggies. Players can compete in events in a wide range of locations including Arizona, Brazil, China, Italy, New York City and Norway. There is changing weather and seasons that affected the performance of vehicles. This is accompanied with a narrative-career mode.
- Colin McRae: Dirt (2007) on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC
- Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (2009) on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, Mac and PC
- Dirt 3 (2011) on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac
- Dirt: Showdown (2012) on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac
- Dirt 4 (2017) on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac
- Dirt 5 (2020) on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC
Dirt 5 offers rally-cross, ice racing, stadium super trucks and off-road buggies. Players can compete in events in a wide range of locations including Arizona, Brazil, China, Italy, New York City and Norway. There is changing weather and seasons that affected the performance of vehicles. This is accompanied with a narrative-career mode.
Game Details
Release Date: 01/01/2007, updated in 2020
Price: 70% off
Platforms: DS, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Content Rating: PEGI 3
Players: 1-4 (8 online)
Genres: Action, Adventure and Race
Accessibility: 28 features
Developer: Codemasters (@Codemasters)
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Duration
Play Style
You can play with 1 to 4 players in the same room or as a 8-player online game. Dirt 3 and Dirt 5 offer split-screen racing for up to four players in career mode. You can race up to 8 players in online modes.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Age Ratings
Content Rating
Users Interact: The game enables players to interact and communicate with each other, so may expose players to language usually associated with older rated games.
Account Rating
You need PlayStation Plus to play online with PlayStation 3.You need be 18-years-old to to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold for online play, but can then configure family accounts for younger players to play online with Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S.
You need be 18-years-old to subscribe to PlayStation Plus for online play, but can create sub-accounts for younger players of 7-years or older to play online with PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5.
Costs
Dirt usually costs £5.79 to £74.99.
You need Xbox Live Gold to play online with Xbox 360.
You need to purchase a PlayStation Plus subscription to play online with PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5.
You need to purchase a Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online with Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S.
You can purchase additional cars and team boosters that give you a unique team offer, a unique engineer and two unique facilities.
The following in-game purchases are available:
Dirt 3
Dirt 4
Dirt 5
 | Xbox One | £54.99 | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
 | PS5 | £54.99 | – | – |
| PS4 | £54.99 | – | – |
 | PC | – | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
Dirt 5 Year One Edition
Dirty Education
Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
You need Xbox Live Gold to play online with Xbox 360.
You need to purchase a PlayStation Plus subscription to play online with PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5.
You need to purchase a Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online with Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S.
You can purchase additional cars and team boosters that give you a unique team offer, a unique engineer and two unique facilities.
The following in-game purchases are available:
Dirt 5: Year One Upgrade
Accessibility
Our Dirt Accessibility Report documents 28 accessibility features:
For the accessibility features, we have used the latest game, Dirt 5.
There are 5 difficulty settings, with the easiest called Very Easy and the hardest Very Hard. In addition to these settings there are also different presets for driver aids (which can also be adjusted individually) including auto-brake and traction control. With the highest level of assistance you can race simply by continually holding down the accelerator and steering.
You can remap all controls for gameplay, including changing button controls to joystick controls and vice versa, but there isn't an option to remap menu controls, you need access to at least one stick and several buttons.
All of the text in the game is high contrast, but is sometimes quite small.
For the accessibility features, we have used the latest game, Dirt 5.
There are 5 difficulty settings, with the easiest called Very Easy and the hardest Very Hard. In addition to these settings there are also different presets for driver aids (which can also be adjusted individually) including auto-brake and traction control. With the highest level of assistance you can race simply by continually holding down the accelerator and steering.
You can remap all controls for gameplay, including changing button controls to joystick controls and vice versa, but there isn't an option to remap menu controls, you need access to at least one stick and several buttons.
All of the text in the game is high contrast, but is sometimes quite small.
Diversity and Inclusion
We haven't documented diversity and inclusion information for this game yet.
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