Review for DiRT Rally 2.0. Game for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 26/02/2019
Something is wrong with this seemingly majestic DiRT RALLY 2.0. And no, we are not talking about the droppings released in correspondence with any demanding stretch of the proposed routes. We refer toessence of a game that, although technically sublime and realistically adhering to the known laws of physics, ultimately fails to open the heart of the racer in each of us.
Although far from wanting to raise a fuss as big as that released after the victory of the never too praised Mahmoud in Sanremo, this review celebrates the deeds of Codemasters production, without sparing him a few jabs.
Accompanied by a more than fair amount of playful variations, thanks also to the acquisition of the FIA license, DiRT Rally 2.0 could have represented the paradise of the Sunday rally driver, offering him the possibility of brushing, bend after bend, every proposed track, fixed left hand on the wheel, with the right hand busy holding the zebedees firmly, but no. It looks beautiful, sumptuous, rococo almost as much as one of the evening episodes of Men and Women but, may Maria De Filippi forgive us, on the track it often lacks personality.
The track design of the various tracks, even if it is anything but trivial, not thrilling, sublimating childhood memories related to the ancient Sega Rally 2006. We travel and go, carefree as usual, but at the end of the ride on this filthy muddy carousel, little or nothing remains. Very few memorable fragments, no rallies in the snow - for that, a future downloadable content will take care of it - all the proposed point to points slip away without too much effort, without leaving much inside the avid consumer of tires and gravel.
Too bad, because the possibilities of customization of the vehicle, both on a mechanical level and on a purely cosmetic level, are abundant within the binary code. A semi-cancellation also related to the fact that the behavior of the various racing cars present in the game is the most playful thing seen on our screens for many years now. The car responds in a significantly different way to each variation in conditions and asphalt material. It is therefore impossible to drive in the same way on dirt and asphalt, in a nutshell. And it is (also) for this reason that DiRT Rally 2.0 remains, after all, a precious creature, with some gray areas.
Initially it will be really complicated to keep the four wheels on the road, also considering the many narrow passages proposed by the available tracks, yet with the increase in the hours spent in the company of the game, your ability will also increase., coming to touch the Nirvana parallel to the achievement of that voluptuous pleasure related to the ability to tame even the most annoying of the four-wheel drive beasts present. Even the implemented rallycross, although it does not scream a miracle, is moderately fun, so it is a shame to find yourself in front of a title in some ways so refined, mortified by gameplay choices somewhat dissonant with the rest. As if that were not enough, in fact, another of the features so much heralded by the developers, namely i changes undergone by the terrain as the various cars pass, does not substantially change the ways of Codemasters production. So many good intentions, in short, but in some cases, the results achieved are not those hoped for and hoped for in productions of this caliber.
And yes, because DiRT Rally 2.0 is a graphically sumptuous title, graced by a Ego Engine in great shape, capable of moving a large number of polygons, textures and special effects without any uncertainty. In our review version, tested on PlayStation 4 Pro, everything is ground with great skill, a pity only for a certain "blur effect", particularly evident in the event that the game is viewed through a TV with a resolution higher than 1920 x 1080.
The online sector is good, which gives the gamer the possibility of compete against the world in a fully customizable championship in terms of gross length and skill required to be completed, providentially enriched by a series of weekly challenges within which the player's RaceNet profile will often be tossed up and down, corresponding to the time he recorded, related to that of the other Tommi Makinen emulators present on the globe.
DiRT Rally 2.0 must be tried before it can be fully understood. Audiovisual really noteworthy and playfully perfect in its austerity in faithfully reproducing the main physical laws, it lacks its own personality, penalized by a decidedly improvable track design. Beautiful, in short, but not memorable.
► DiRT Rally 2.0 is a racing-Simulation-Sport game developed and published by Codemasters for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 26/02/2019
