You guys asked for another drunk driving DiRT 3 video after I posted the first one so here it is! My friend Greg and I were already drunk before we started shooting so think of this as leaving off where the other video ended 🙂 I hope you guys enjoy the shinanigans and please be warned some offensive things are said during the videos so if you’re easily offended please go watch one of my other videos instead. I hope this video makes you laugh as much as I did making it and please be assured I do not condone drunk driving and never drive unless I’m blowing a 0! Only one human was harmed in the making of this video but I’m sure he’ll be fine after an ice pack or two 🙂
When Dirt 2 was released in 2009 it boasted a lengthy and varied career mode, numerous multiplayer options, and uniformly excellent presentation. Its sequel loses none of those things and also makes some great additions to the formula. Split-screen multiplayer is now an option, there are more vehicle classes to choose from, gymkhana events and snowy conditions pose fresh challenges, and new multiplayer modes put interesting automotive spins on some first-person shooter favorites. Dirt 3 brings a lot of superb content to the table, and because it offers a plethora of customizable difficulty settings and assists, newcomers and veterans alike can enjoy its excellent off-road action.
The Racing line assist is one of many that’s included for newcomers to off-road racing.
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Regardless of which difficulty level you play at and whether or not you take advantage of stability and braking assists, Dirt 3 handles like a dream. There are dozens of great-looking modern and vintage vehicles in the garage, and you race them on all manner of surfaces and in changing weather conditions, but getting behind the wheel of one that you haven’t driven before is never a problem. The controls are responsive, and while it’s certainly possible to mess up so spectacularly that your ride loses panels and becomes deformed to the point that it’s unrecognizable, there are gameplay mechanics in place that ensure you don’t feel the need to hold anything back. Even as you hurtle along narrow dirt trails and around icy hairpins, Dirt 3’s cars, trucks, and buggies encourage you to push them harder by using excellent audio and rumble feedback to let you know that you’re not quite on the edge yet.
Demanding new gymkhana events in which you’re challenged to perform tricks in specially designed arenas reinforce how excellent Dirt 3’s controls are. In these exciting sessions you score points for crashing through carefully positioned destructible blocks, and for performing donuts, spins, slides, and jumps. String different tricks together to get the crowd pumped, and you build up a score multiplier; display anything other than masterful control by colliding with something, and your multiplier goes down. It’s not entirely dissimilar to performing combos in a skateboarding game, except that the tricks are significantly less complex. Stringing successful tricks together against the clock is still plenty challenging, though, and as a result, gymkhanas are great practice for other events. Once you can make a car dance around a cone and slide at speed through a gate or underneath a truck, getting it around a corner in a race doesn’t seem like such a big deal.
Tutorials do a good job of teaching you the tricks you need for gymkhana events.
Every event in Dirt 3, whether it be a point-to-point rally through a Kenyan desert, a head-to-head race in the Aspen snow, or a circuit-based rallycross event that weaves in and out of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, demands precise driving. You can get away with a few collisions here and there, particularly if you take advantage of the five flashbacks at your disposal to correct your mistakes, and it’s entirely possible that you might find finishing in first place too easy if you’re an experienced player. Turn off some of the assists, crank up the difficulty, and switch from cosmetic damage to realistic damage, though, and you’ll find that Dirt 3 is exactly as challenging as you want it to be. At the other end of the scale, if you’re new to off-road racing and looking for a way into the genre, Dirt 3 has you covered. In addition to the aforementioned assists and other options, it’s the first game in the series to offer a dynamic racing line like those seen in both the Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo series.
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