Codemaster’s new racer is due out pretty soon now – it’s penned in for a 25 May release date. A good time to get hands-on with the larger-than-life racer and sample the simple and addictive pleasure of ‘carnage mode’…
Apparently hooning is slang term for behaving badly, mainly in cars so this Dirt Showdown video is all about tricks and stunts.
This week on Access there’s an high level of PS Vita coverage. Anyone would think it launched this week or something. FIFA Football is the game of the week (unsurprising really as we gave it 8/10 in our FIFA Football review). There’s also a look at the top Vita games, Dirt Showdown on PS3 and sneak peak behind the scenes at game T-shirt manufacturer Insert Coin.
Inside Dirt 3, there were two games. One pitted you against the savage Finnish countryside in fully-licensed rally cars and demanded pinpoint powersliding; the other plonked you in Battersea powerstation, and just wanted you to make a mess. To move the franchise forward, Codemasters are basically splitting the atom – Dirt Showdown isn’t Dirt 4, instead it takes Dirt 3′s light-hearted, tyre-smoking muckaround moments, and turns it all up to…
Want to see Dirt Showdown gameplay in action? Of course you do. Here’s me and OPM’s Phil Iwaniuk discussing the finer points of Codies’ new racer: why Dirt Showdown isn’t Dirt 4, what’s new in terms of events and action, and, most importantly, does it look like it’s any good.
You might think you’ve got this game’s number – after all, there are three previous titles in the Dirt series to draw assumptions from, the last as recently as May. If you’re expecting more of the same, though, Showdown is set to give you a few surprises. This isn’t Dirt 4 – Dirt Showdown is an entirely different beast. (We’ve more new Dirt Showdown info in this interview.)
Associate producer Iain Smith and senior director Mike Chapman talk about Dirt Showdown on PS3. The new rally racer that “does the Spinal Tap thing”. (Find out more with this new Dirt Showdown hands on preview as well).
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