#Dirt 5 s rating series

Not a big deal, but also not always a noticeable improvement. But I will admit I found myself in pretty standard load times booting up the actual game, as well as initially loading into races.

#Dirt 5 s rating series

But it’s not all about the visuals, on Series X it’s a faster experience - gone is that chunky load screen when you need to restart a race, now you’ll just zip back onto the start line with a quick press of a button. Reflections bounce of your car and the soaked mud - whilst realistic lighting pierces through the environment. Plugging the Series X into a 4k telly, it’s startling just how much more detail there is. I had the chance to review this on the Xbox Series X, my first game on a next gen console! Although, by the time you watch this it’s already a now-gen console. You can even give your rides their very own livery, I went in with a snazzy GGSP splash of flavour… not that really mattered once you get on the track. Thank you Dirt 5 for not locking away any progress I’m lookin’ at you Project Cars 3. Though if you want to, there’s also a decent cash flow. Thankfully Dirt 5 actually gives you a car upfront for each class - so you won’t need to grind through races to earn cash to buy new cars. And whilst there’s only one real activity, being racing - there is some variation with each event featuring its own class of cars to pick from.įrom a humble off roader, to this tractor monster truck thing. But I was having so much fun, I did everything. With one big end of tour race in sight - you can actually pick and choose which races you want to do to get there. I can not understate how hard it was to put this game down, one more race! Plus, to keep things interesting, there’s a little bit of player choice here. Throw in a dynamic weather and time of day system, and your races can turn from a bright dry simple stroll, to a dark rainy slip and slide. Like a frozen lake beneath The Roosevelt Bridge - or the bamboo forests of China. And there’s never a dull moment or track in this tour across the globe, as you’ll be taken to some seriously awesome locations. There’s some variation between events, but it generally boils to a messy and fast race against your opponents.

From the off, career mode throws you into a ‘festival’ like tour with grids of events to burn through. Dirt 5 is here and making a bit of a change to the often grounded rally franchise, by diving head first into a more arcade focused campaign.