Colin McRae: Dirt 2 2009

Is it still worth playing?

Known outside Europe as Dirt 2, this 2009 racing game came out first for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 and then for Windows. It features five racing disciplines, all playable offline and online, plus three special modes. It runs on an updated version of the EGO engine, whose physics model weight transfer during turns and allow advanced techniques such as the Scandinavian flick. Rally racing takes place on closed public routes with staggered starts, each driver against the clock. A co-driver constantly reads pacenotes to guide the driver along narrow and winding tracks of up to six kilometers. Ken Block, Travis Pastrana and Tanner Foust are among the drivers featured. Racing against a pacenote voice is still a good way to learn the road.