DIRT 5

drives like poop

and have to restart the races all the time just to complete the stoopid sponsor tasks, which sometimes dont count some of the successful individual attempts.... waste of time :)

Get the achievements and then get away from this game.

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Dirt 5... sliding everywhere even on a straight asphalt section ffs
A waste of my time and money

I can tell they put the minimum amount of effort possible into making this game, which is a shame, because 4 had a lot of depth. This game is arcade but the driving doesn't feel that good to be honest. I don't expect a sim or an arcade game, but I get a terrible sim and an awful arcade game. At least the graphics look nice.

No wheel support on PC for my Fanatec DD+.
This game was awesome on my Xbox Series X.
Guess PC Master Race isn't so master anymore I am finding more and more especially when it comes to any 3rd party hardware support.
Refunding this and going back to Xbox...again!

Nice recing game

good

This game is awesome. It performs nearly perfect at native 4K, max settings with a 4060 ti (single player). It has split screen multiplayer, which seems to have become a rarity in racing games lately, and is the reason I bought this game, so I can play with friends and family. This is very well developed, the menus and controls are intuitive, with a bunch of graphic and control settings, and I have not experienced a single crash so far. You can retry tracks at the end without going through any loading screens too. Most importantly, it's a lot of fun. Graphics are good considering this was released in 2020 and it performs that good. I 100% recommend this game if you want to have fun with friends with split screen multiplayer.

It's not DiRT. It's MotorStorm 5.

Off-road arcade racing at its best!

This game offers plenty of track surfaces, not just dirt. Loads of fun! The graphics are impressive, particularly the lighting effects.

worst of both worlds. arcade racer but sim gameplay to win races. other racers are better then you. always. no matter what. horrible optimization, stuttering, and graphics. microtransactions that are worthless. just everything about this game sucks. I really like racing games, and the dirt series in particular, but this heap of crap just sucks the joy out of it. got this game at over 90% off and still feel that was too much. if you get this game for free, it might almost be worth it.

another low effort asset flip with awful physics

---{ Gameplay }---

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/10

Higher = Great gameplay aka quite lot of fun.


---{ Audio }---

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8/10

Higher = Great audio also to make it clear its just the sound design overall, from even any voice acting or just sound effects of stuff etc, but not including any music or atmospheric tracks bellow is the score for the music.


---{ Soundtrack }---

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 7/10

Higher = Great soundtrack this for all kinda of music within the game.


---{ Story }---

⭐ 1/10

Higher = Great story


---{ Difficulty }---


Medium
⭐⭐ 2/10

Easy
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/10

10 being very easy 5 being not too hard yet not too easy and 1 being very hard.


---{ Length of Content Inside this game }---

🔲 What that was tiny. (under 1 hour - 1 hour)
✅ Short. (2-5 hours)
🔲 Decent. (6-15 hours)
🔲 Long. (16-48 hours)
🔲 Super long. (49-280)
🔲 Here's my keys, Philosophy, A freak like me, Just needs infinity.


---{ Bugs and Problems }---

✅ Smooth just the way everyone likes it.
🔲 Minor bugs or problems but, nothing too bad that ruins the game as a whole, so overall still playable.
🔲 Ok now its getting to be quite problematic, find it hard to pretend its not happening, can get annoying.
🔲 Wow getting to the point of un playable with too much problems with it.
🔲 Such a broken mess, it's so un playable.


---{ Price list }---

£44.99

🔲 Worth the set price.
🔲 Small % off would do, aka around 5-35% range.
✅ Medium % off would do, aka around 40-65% range.
🔲 Large % off would do, aka 70% or higher off other wise if you don't you've just wasted your cash on this game.


---{ Detail Notes }---

The death of dirt IP is all i really need to say EA bought codemaster up and this was their first dirt game under EA control and it shows a lot, cause lot of it doesn't seem like a iconic dirt game let alone like past codemaster dirt games at at all. The handling is like a mix at times it can feel snappy but always switches back to sludgiest, so many times leading to me screaming TURN YOU F#$K%0 as most tracks have quite lot of sharp like turns as even 35 degree turns can be a issue. But as said at times it feels like the car is doing what you want but mid turn/slide it just refuses to do what you want to do. And if your someone who hates drifting being more of a requirement well yeah this is one of those games, in fact hardly ever used the brakes and just used the handbrake to get by still had issues turning tho but it was better then using my brakes.


What is even more annoying when the balance in this game is blatant unfair Ai. For real easy mode more feels like a medium difficulty then, well you know easy time playing. And that might be cause their have programmed the AI to speed up each lap but sure that can be mostly forgivable. But what is not is on the last lap or if not a lapping track they will suddenly really speed up and about 600m left of the track to the finish line. So they become even more roboticly scripted but suddenly having even more massive speed boast so you better hope you made a gap otherwise you'll catch the ai suddenly jump past you across the line.

I understand why they coded this, clearly they wanted that thrill sense when you're reaching the finish line for the ai to sneek up behide you to give tension. You know creating some artificially excitement that you earned that win, but as said they are over coded on this, to the point you will catch them having un nataul acceleration boast. This causes well say you're leading aka 1st the whole race around only to be cheated by the end by this scripted coded BS.

This is exactly why this is no easy game not only are you fighting the cars to make the turn but the AI cheats! Tho i always like medium point / hard game challage in games so i began playing on medium only to turn it down bit past the halfway point cause i wasn't gonna keep grinding the same races just cause of the ai cheating their way of a win lot of the times.


So the main content has quite a low enjoyment factor tho it can be fun sometimes, but hows the MP / online stuff for this game? Tell you the truth its filled with cheaters and oh to make your own tracks, wellp hope you have a controller cause they for some reason restricted that mode to having a controller is required. Like what other game does that lock a big selling factor of why you should buy this game behide a hardware requirement!!! Why can't we use mouse and keyboard? Lucky i have a controller and play lot of racing games with one but those who don't own one RIP.


last thing is spite me making the game look bad what it for sure deserves you can just see EA greed has rubbed all over this game, more so the DLC wow you can get good cars but at the cost of using those DLC cars you will have grind more if you want more in game rewards as paying more money = less rewards given. Guess that was their way of make sure people don't scream that the DLC cars are pay2win. But to give something very positive and thats the graphics and the sound design.

Like wow the game looks goood real good more so with the water have in mind yes using raytraceing but yeah it looks great in fact the Norway track was my fav to race on in the night and day, and the sound design for sure is one of the few games that takes advantage of my 7.1 surround sound headphones, but not only that it does it perfectly better then any game i've ever known that can do 7.1. So yeah if i get new 7.1 surround sound headsets dirt 5 is going to a great way to test it out.


---{ Verdict Rating ? / 10 }---

3/10

to many cheater
trainers are screwing thins up

Fisica ruim, Graficos medianos, jogabilidade estranha. 4/10

fiquei impressionado com os visuais deslumbrantes. Os gráficos são simplesmente de primeira linha. Os ambientes são incrivelmente detalhados, e o sistema de clima dinâmico adiciona uma camada de realismo. Correr por uma pista lamacenta na chuva, com a água espirrando na tela, é uma experiência emocionante.

Best rally games eva

Graphics are very good, soundtrack is OK. Some grinding is needed to make the credits roll but it is a fun game. It is probably the hardest arcade game I've played because the AI opponents don't make any mistakes so if you make one, there is high probability you will not get first spot or even top 3. At medium settings 4 GB VRAM (GTX 1650) occasionally becomes insufficient for this game but it ran well 99% of the time. It crashed only once during 14 hours of my gameplay.

good

bad ai, bad maps, bad physics, typical ea stuff

Good graphics, many beautiful tracks, good eneregetic music.
Unfortunately when weather changes you cant see walls very well and hitting wall slows your car significantly. Strange car driving mechanics, some races you will win by just holding full throttle and then next race you need to break properly and maintain good driving line and still you will struggle to maintain good position.
Some RWD cars will lose traction even on asphalt and even when they are positioned just 10 degerees to driving direction so with controller it is hard to apply enough throttle just to drive very fast and not drift.
Winning all the time and strange car mechanics make game somehow pointless.

This game's tough to place. There's the typical "it's nothing like previous DiRTs, so it's bad" angle; and the "if it wasn't called DiRT, it'd be a respectable arcade game" angle.

I guess both are true.

There's moments of fun in it, and it's fun driving a good line and avoiding hazards at high speeds in some of the thoughtfully-designed courses. There's also some mastery needed with Manual gearing, because you have to know when to prioritize high torque, or when you need to prioritize maximum speed. And sometimes it really does capture glints of what made DiRT great when you're fighting the AI trying to scrape past a tough and bumpy corner at high speed.

But after maybe an hour of play, you begin to notice that the physics feel REALLY vague and mushy, and that more often than not full-throttle is the only way to go. And it basically feels like you're just massaging a hunk of frozen meat to get it to turn, with unimpactful vehicle and wall collisions.

That feeling, combined with the soulless feeling while racing, in the menus, and the loading transitions just make the game feel bland, and make me wonder why I'm even playing it.

Then there's the uneven difficulty. I played it on Very Hard, and a number of events were too easy, but certain events sometimes took me a dozen tries before I could fluke-out a win. And some event types like the Ice Skating events just aren't much fun - and the Gymkhana events are downright terrible, where it feels like you're actively fighting your car in claustrophobic environments where you have no room to express yourself.

Overall, it is a decently fun arcade game if you don't attach the DiRT name to it. But the fun always feels short-lived, since I always want to put it down after about 30 minutes - a far cry from DiRT 2 & 3 each sucking up 45 hours of my life in the blink of an eye.

Go grab Gravel when it goes on sale for $2. It's the best analog I can find to DiRT, especially since every DiRT game but this one is currently deslisted.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/558260/Gravel/

Fun,easy,casual

best game ever

Sadly its not that good.
*Playing race event using handbrakes - crap. Spinning car all over.
*Playing race event using break - crap. Opponents catching up in a seconds.
*Drifting events - crap. Are horrible and stage feels too tiny for a car. Plus car handles are totally out of drift action league. Drifting cars are cows on ice - all over the place with they own mind.
*Offroad events - pretty much slide-all-over-corner. Crap.
*Buggy cars - this one accurate: super-suck at corners, typical every US muscle car ever made. aka Crap. :P
*Corners - wall-grind corners reducing speed 10 times. A unforgivable punishment for that move.
*Corners - slide hitting a walls stops you car at halt. Randomly. (looks like collusion bugs there)
*Cars - feels like rogdolls. 2 tons car loves to flip on its roof. lol
*Driving at night - pretty much "When I turn?". Tracks are super dark and on purpose at corners. Did creators seen a Le'Man's 24h races at all? That's how lighted night track should be, when you driving it at over 60 mph.

Career - way too boring and repetitive.. 300 events.. but its feels like a chore.. try-to-do a even.. lose it - skip.. try to-do second finish mid... getting money, points. next event... try-repeat. its not courage you finish first, just some times lock your progress. To force you earn extra badges by beating past evens in better positions. Like try bit better. .. and so on. that pretty much thats a career playthrough.

After Dirt 3... Dirt series just went to drain hole. becoming money milking franchise out of the fans. Buy ONLY at super discounts.

P.S. Limited to 60 fps. Playing stable BUT a random hiccup that drop fps 8. At High setting with DLLS on 4070 RTX. Info from a benchmark test-run withing a game settings. So yeah - game does have graphical unoptimizations too.

i want some arcade racing game with easy UI this is a steal

DIRT 5

Positives:
+ Colourful
+ Nice music
+ Good voiceacting
+ Cool locations to race
+ Quite a lot of varied cars to drive
+ Difficulty settings which you can change at any time
+ Driving aids which you can customize to your liking
+ Small and fast events
+ Pathfinder
+ Tracks in Norway with a norwegian speaker
+ At its best its fun and entertaining
+ Good length in total (about 15+ hours in the main campaign)
+ DLCs expands the total length to about 25+ hours

Negatives:
- Weird soundmixing, gets worse or better depending on your view mode (but often a very loud motor noise on top with low muffled music underneath, changing the settings dosent help much)
- It cant decide if its an arcade or simulation game, and sort of fails at both
- Difficulty is inconsistent from way too easy to quite challenging
- Below par graphics (looks dated by 2020 standards, and its quite blurry as well)
- A bit unstable and choppy framerate
- Its hard to get much higher than 75 fps regardless of graphics settings
- Framerate issues takes away some of the flow
- Controls have an identity crisis simcade feel to it (you'll need to tweak the settings)
- At its worst it can get quite frustrating to play because of the above
- DLCs mostly reuse the same tracks as before

I think this game would be better of if it wasnt called DIRT 5.
Because then you've got a lot of quality games you're going to be compared to.
And a fanbase thats used to getting things made in a certain way.
Because there is no doubt, this game is different.
Some for the better, some for the worse.
And I understand all the hate, and also those who like it as well.
If we are gonna compare it to the other DIRT games,
I would say its closer to DIRT: Showdown than any other titles of the series.
And I enjoyed Showdown, so for me DIRT 5 was a slightly worse version of it.
But its certainly not for everybody, and especially not for the simulation fans of the DIRT series.
But if you can cope with the problems its got, you can have a good time.

Total Score: 7/10


NB! If you cant decide if you want to buy the DLCs, here are some thoughts:
Dont buy the DLCs individually at a full price, thats not worth it.
Either buy the Year One Edition or the Year 1 Upgrade when its on sale.
I also reccommend to buy the Porsche Macan T1 DLC, because its the best car of its class.
Its ridiculous thats its not included in some of the other DLCs, and its a bit overpriced.
But I'll still say its worth it. I used it a lot, and its a real joy to drive.
And dont buy the Ford F-150 Raptor DLC, its just a poor performance car.
There are some new cars and tracks in the DLCs, but there arent many.
I enjoyed the new stuff, but most of it is just reuse of the main campaign tracks.
So if you think 15 hours is not enough gameplay, you should definitely consider to buy the Year One DLC bundle. I did, and I dont regret it.


PS! If you also struggle with microstutters/framerate drops, this is a possible fix:
(Mainly for those who have both e-cores and p-cores in their Intel i-processors of 12th, 13th and 14th generation. May also work on other processors, but its not guaranteed)
- Download and install ParkControl from this link:
https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/
- Set "Parking" to "Off"
- Select "Performant Processors" on both "Short Threads" and "Long Treads"
- Press "Apply" and start the game
Enjoy!

tons of fun, and loving physics

As a full price "AAA" racing game this is kinda meh. It can be fun at times if you get it in a deep sale, but at full price it's just not really worth it.

I'm fine with it not being really a rally game, and instead just being an offroad racing game, but many of the categories of cars outside of the rally cars aren't satisfying to drive.

The Trophy Trucks and the Formula Offroad feel incredibly sluggish, with the lack of torque converter simulation meaniung you're constantly off the power band due to the very small number of gears.

I also have issues with the RWD cars in general. I have experience driving RWD cars on dirt in sims and sim-ish games, but in this game I just feel constantly all over the place, like I don't really have control over what the car does.

Fun game, so much content

Me compré este juego porque crecí jugando al Dirt 2 y 3 cuando era chico y hace mucho que no escuchaba nada sobre la saga, así que me ganó la nostalgia. Este juego no es bueno. La sensación de velocidad es nula, pareciera que estás manejando a máximo 20km/h todo el tiempo y tampoco ayuda que las pistas tengan más curvas que una Kardashian y tengas que estar bajando la velocidad todo el tiempo. Supuestamente hay más de 70 pistas, pero igualmente el juego se siente muy repetitivo, especialmente el modo historia, donde corres en las mismas pistas una y otra vez. Ya que mencioné a la historia, esta es básicamente casi inexistente. Tenés a un mentor que es muy conocido y él tiene un enemigo que también es un conductor muy conocido. Toda la historia te la cuentan por un podcast donde dos hombres hablan sobre los eventos y la rivalidad de tu mentor y el otro conductor. No tenés idea de como se ven ninguno de los dos y todo lo que pasa entre ellos no te afecta de ninguna manera, es como si ni siquiera estuvieras involucrado en la historia. La sensación de progreso no existe. Al final de cada carrera te pagan una banda y si hay alguna carrera en la que no podes ganar, después de 3 carreras ya te alcanza para comprar uno de los mejores y más caros autos de la división que tengas que usar en esa carrera. No desbloqueas autos con el tiempo, ni se siente un progreso gradual de pasar a manejar autos mejores con el tiempo. Nunca me pasó que tuviera que ahorrar para comprar un auto bueno, siempre tengo plata de sobra, porque te pagan muchísimo en comparación a lo que valen los autos. El único sentimiento de progreso en el juego te lo dan los sponsors, que tienen 15 niveles cada uno y completando carreras y desafíos vas subiendo de nivel, pero lo único que desbloqueas son cosméticos.
Este juego me parece muy aburrido, nunca juego juegos de carreras en el modo de primera persona, pero en este sí, porque le da un poco más de emoción al juego que se te mueva la cámara, ya que el manejo se siente super lento y simplón.
No recomiendo que compren este juego, si quieren un juego de Rally arcade, mejor compren el Dirt 2 o el 3 y si quieren uno realista, entonces el Dirt Rally 2.0.

horrible play back could not connect but ate up my wifi.horrable xp!

I really wanted to like this game but the tracks, while being pretty, are quite boring.
The physics in some disciplines are extremely inconsistent, and even then i wanted to continue playing the game.
But then i found out there is no replay, and that really turned me off.
The game can be fun, but it's nowhere near the quality of previous installments.

Good game, recommended for everyone

if you're expecting of Dirt 2 Rallycross with a Dirt 3 point to point timed rally gameplay, you will heavily disappointed, nuff said

but if you're expecting Sega Rally Revo (yes Revo, not Sega Rally 1/2, Revo are total different compare to Sega Rally 1/2) you will have fun like i did

this is like Codemasters take on their own version of Sega Rally Revo, you could call them "Codemasters Rally Revo" instead of "Dirt 5", there is a lot of similarities between this game and SR:Revo, from open wide track designs with setpieces that focus on spectacle, floaty arcade car handling model, and various of offroad vehicle class, the resemblance is there

as long you pretend this is not part of the "Dirt" series, this game is fun

One of the main challenges in most racing games is selecting or tuning up a car to get you over the hurdle of a race you have trouble beating.

This isn't really possible in Dirt 5.

All of the cars are more or less the same and there are very few to choose from.

The game itself is gorgeous and the cars feel pretty good to drive but I only made it so far into the game before I realised that there were just 3 cars to choose from for many of the races unless you want to pay for some DLC to expand your selection to about six cars which is far fewer than most racing games offer right off the bat.

In general I love games from the codemasters studio and even in this one there's some fantastic graphics and gameplay. But it would have to be a near perfect game to justify the lack of selection.

Looks and feels okay, but it's a very boring game :(

fun if you get it on discount, very old school arcade-y feeling, great soundtrack too

cannot get mouse working in this game
Is it an x box only game?

best off road game in my opinion 10 for 10

ive played this game a total of like 50 hours combined form my PS4 and i really like this game, its fun and engaging unlike their other game (DIRT Rally 2.0)

I have been putting off my review on this game for far too long...I gotta do it.

I cannot recommend this game...it's not a DIRT game, not a Rally game either...so what is it? Some sort of blend of driving events that feel like bumper cars with no damage at all to anything, except the few Showdown cars & with awful physics and extremely boring handling models.

No podcast things can save this game...or its soundtrack or even car list, which is not amazing, but not terrible either.

It wants and tries so hard to be fun but it is epitome of what corporate suits think what fun is like...and it only is the exact opposite, as this game could maybe have a different review score if it weren't a DiRT game, just like Showdown as well! The game has amazing track designs & is all so colorful and stylish...but ultimately its gameplay lacks any DiRT or Rally game feeling...and yes, you don't have rally stages at all. You always race AIs...I can only hope this is not the last resort of this franchise as I want to see something as great or better than a DiRT 2. But this one is not even 20% as fun...and I am gonna say it: DiRT 4 is better.

Compared to Dirt 3 it kind of really sucks and moreso plays as a Dirt Showdown 2. Tacky music that I had to mute, the guys from Donut media endlessly talking your ear off, a lack of an actual rally mode, and subpar driving physics really makes this game unfun to play at times. However as a time trial game by turning the rubber-banding AI down to very easy and muting the music and dialogue it can actually be fun as every single level has a leaderboard attached to it so you can check your lap times against everyone else, and it is really gratifying to get a top 1000 or 500 time on a track. So looking at this game from this perspective, id give it a very tentative thumbs up, and only at a deep discount like 85% or more. But if you are looking to get the same feeling you got with Dirt 3, don't bother.

THIS GAME IS TRASH. DRIVING GAME WITH NO WHEEL/PEDAL SUPPORT FOR NAME BRAND SIM EQUIPMENT. GARBAGE CONSOLE GAME.

If you're looking for anything close to an authentic DiRT experience with friends I can't recommend this. Tacky aesthetic and bad music aside (Though I do appreciate the effort to make more music for a DiRT game.) it's really repetitive and there isn't much appeal that other more polished arcade type multiplayer racers don't offer.

This game disappointed me, Dirt 3, Dirt 4, Dirt Rally, are the games ive played, Dirt 4 had its flaws, but Dirt 5 made me question why it exists, there's no realism in the game nothing, and the controls are weird too.

DIRT 5 is an adrenaline-packed racing game with dynamic weather, diverse tracks, and exciting off-road action. Perfect for fans of fast-paced racing!" 🚗💨

more like gravel 2 than dirt 5 but thats no bad thing.
Runs good and looks good.

The graphics are really good and the difficulty is not too much.