![]() However, there’s one part that shines above all else. The soundtrack, the car audio – it’s all great. That all said – it’s sound design that puts this game so far above most of the other things I’ve played. You’ll understand why later.Ĭolors are bold, textures are relatively sharp – Dirt 5 is a fine-looking game. I’m glad more game devs are being less afraid of color these days.Īlso – this game has some of the best weather effects I’ve seen since DRIVECLUB. I especially appreciate the more Dirt 2-esque, vibrant and colorful aesthetic the game goes for. Other than those minor issues – the game looks fine. I spent most of my time in Fidelity mode on PS5 because of that. I can’t speak much on the 120FPS mode as I don’t have a monitor capable of displaying that framerate – but I did notice there seemed to be a lot more frame drops in that mode. It runs at a solid 60FPS pretty consistently (On PS5/Xbox Series X/S, at least) – PS4/Xbox One can also hit 60, but it’s a bit more inconsistent, and the fidelity mode there is 30FPS, which is disappointing for an arcade racer like this. It looks fine – about as good as Rally 2.0 – although I think I like Rally 2.0‘s overall UI a bit more. Visually, the game isn’t much to write home about. This is the primary reason the game is so high on my list, and why I’d honestly consider it my GOTY if I properly did that kind of thing. There are no cutscenes and you never actually see anyone.Īs I said before – the story that’s there works well enough to at least get you through the career. The primary bits of drama all play out over their podcast. Thankfully, you don’t have to deal with them that much – they introduce new events and essentially act as the framing device for the events of the plot. However – the Donut Media guys can wear a bit thin (It can feel like they’re trying a bit too hard to sell these personas. AJ’s just laid-back enough that you’re willing to hear him out and keep trying. Durand is just enough of a smug asshole that you feel compelled to put him in his place. On the opposite end of that spectrum is Bruno Durand (voiced by Nolan North) – a person that would rather win by any means necessary than try to make nice with anyone.Ī look at the career mode – broken up into 5 main events with dozens of events in each.Īll-in-all, the story’s extremely cliché but serves its purpose well enough. He’s not really a guy out to win – he just wants a good race. It follows you, a rookie driver in the long-running Dirt Championship Series (Though being called a rookie when you’ve been playing the Dirt series since it was still Colin McRae’s DiRT feels weird) – being guided and mentored by Alex ‘AJ’ Janicek (Voiced by one Troy Baker).ĪJ is a very nice, chilled-out kind of racer who just enjoys racing at its core. That said – Dirt 5 does have a plot, for the most part. It’s why R: Racing Evolution holds a special place in my heart, even with its flaws. Frankly, I don’t think anyone is ever going to give me what I really want again – which is a game like Gran Turismo, but a plot like Ace Combat. Even games like Need for Speed just barely eke out a cohesive plot to tie together their string of random races around the map.ĭirt 5 isn’t much different in that regard. It’s not too often that a racing game has a proper story of any kind. ![]() Even though the game came out at the tail end of 2020, Dirt 5 ended up being one of my favorite games this year. Instead, I’ve decided I’m going to talk about the game that I spent surprisingly the most amount of time playing and enjoying, other than the usual culprits. It would pretty much be the same list again this year – with one or 2 alternate titles. Much like last year’s, I didn’t get to play much from 2021 outside of 1 or 2 games, and the games I did play were a lot of the same ones on the 2020 list already. I want to first preface this by saying: I’m not doing a Top 5 this year.
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