DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road 360 info

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:39 pm

Zlax45 wrote:Forza or Dirt...I wonder which I will get.

I'm leaning towards Dirt. Here's why, Forza was never the great racing simulation as heralded. It was just like GT, a very good driving simulation but not racing. And it had it's online problems where it had super cars. I don't remember the class.

I still would love to see what a TOCA 3 on the 360 would look like.

Fshguy · Post by **Fshguy** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:59 pm

Zlax45 wrote:Forza or Dirt...I wonder which I will get.

I thought the obvious answer was both?!

Nozzleman_216 · Post by **Nozzleman_216** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:50 pm

Fshguy wrote:
Zlax45 wrote:Forza or Dirt...I wonder which I will get.
I thought the obvious answer was both?!

me too!! BOTH! I am pretty sure there will be a gap of AT LEAST a month and probably more like 2 between these games. I doubt DIRT is released in June. July maybe and might even see it pushed back to August. Hopefully a demo is out for both soon!!

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:19 am

SEMINOLE wrote:
Fshguy wrote:
Zlax45 wrote:Forza or Dirt...I wonder which I will get.
I thought the obvious answer was both?!
me too!! BOTH! I am pretty sure there will be a gap of AT LEAST a month and probably more like 2 between these games. I doubt DIRT is released in June. July maybe and might even see it pushed back to August. Hopefully a demo is out for both soon!!

EBGames has DIRT listed for release on 5/1

http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=t000424

Nozzleman_216 · Post by **Nozzleman_216** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:19 am

yea that won't happen. It will be released end of June earliest. Just go to Codies site. It shows summer 07. They are saying the end of June in the forums there. Also, on May 3rd, Codemasters is hosting a Dirt Forums day. This is basically a free invite to play the game at Codemasters. The invite even says, come play the game ages before it comes out. Again that date is May 3rd so I would take EB and Gamecrap dates with a grain of salt.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:39 am

I watched the last couple of Dirt videos at gametrailers, and I am a little worried now. First of all, it was very hard to watch the videos because whoever was playing the game simply cannot drive at all, so that certainly doesn't help the game look like a winner. But what really bugged me was that it looks like the changing iris effect in the lighting may be unforgivably distracting. It has that 'first try' 360 launch game look that all those early releases had, such as GRAW and PGR and others, where the lighting would adjust wildly from bright to dark as you changed your angle to the 'sun.' From some angles, the road surface was so dark it looked like night and was very hard to see; from others, everything was bright and clear. Of course, this iris shift seems to take forever, well over a second, which just makes it worse, and really sucks if you are changing directions rapidly back and forth. Now, I'm sure the actual game would look brighter than these videos (GT videos often seem to be too dark on my display when I stream them through the 360), but there's no doubt that there is a lot of this iris effect going on in a way that games from early in the 360's life did way too much, and more recent releases have calmed down quite a bit.

The other distressing thing is that Nicky Grist seems to be gone and replaced by a robot with an American accent. I mean, this guy is dry as they come and almost hard to understand because he is so boring sounding. Was it something about the Scottish brogue that has suddenly scared the codies away from Grist? Or at least someone who sounds real? I guess I can get used to it if the pace notes are functional, but a lot of the McRae character will be gone with no Grist. A real bummer.

I really hope this lighting BS doesn't kill the game for me. I'm not interested in having to crank my display settings all out of whack for one specific game, and unless they tone down this dynamic iris 'when you look in the direction of the sun, everything around you turns dark, and just look at now slow it happens' crap. That stuff was fine back when the 360 just came out, but games are now demonstrating a much better handle on those kinds of effects, and Dirt will look like it should have been a launch title if they don't reduce the extremity of it.

I'm getting a bit worried.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:06 am

Zeppo wrote:The other distressing thing is that Nicky Grist seems to be gone and replaced by a robot with an American accent. I mean, this guy is dry as they come and almost hard to understand because he is so boring sounding. Was it something about the Scottish brogue that has suddenly scared the codies away from Grist? Or at least someone who sounds real? I guess I can get used to it if the pace notes are functional, but a lot of the McRae character will be gone with no Grist. A real bummer.

Grist is Welsh, you DICK!

Just had to get in a good rip since we don't tease each other on XBL anymore.

Hugs and f*cks,
PK

Nozzleman_216 · Post by **Nozzleman_216** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:43 am

ahhhh.... CLASSIC!!!!

Miss you on live man!

Fshguy · Post by **Fshguy** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:03 pm

pk500 wrote:
Zeppo wrote:The other distressing thing is that Nicky Grist seems to be gone and replaced by a robot with an American accent. I mean, this guy is dry as they come and almost hard to understand because he is so boring sounding. Was it something about the Scottish brogue that has suddenly scared the codies away from Grist? Or at least someone who sounds real? I guess I can get used to it if the pace notes are functional, but a lot of the McRae character will be gone with no Grist. A real bummer.
Grist is Welsh, you DICK! Just had to get in a good rip since we don't tease each other on XBL anymore.

Hugs and f*cks,
PK

It's too bad you missed one of the best GRAW 2 moments with Zeppo. He was willing to uhm, take one for the team.

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:09 pm

EB Games has a game called CMR 07 slated to get released but another game called DIRT is scheduled for 6/19.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:13 pm

Fshguy wrote:It's too bad you missed one of the best GRAW 2 moments with Zeppo. He was willing to uhm, take one for the team.

A lead cornhole for the gay blade, huh?

Just kidding, Zep!

Take care,
PK

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:34 pm

These videos here are assuaging my worries quite nicely!

http://www.jeuxvideo.fr/article-colin-m ... 7-0-0.html

Now, this guy can at least drive OK, and I'm not seeing a lot of that iris effect that had me worried from the latest vids at gametrailers. These aren't hi-res, but there is a nice variety of stuff in the clips.

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:36 pm

Zlax45 wrote:Forza or Dirt...I wonder which I will get.

BOTH!

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:17 pm

Zeppo wrote:These videos here are assuaging my worries quite nicely!

http://www.jeuxvideo.fr/article-colin-m ... 7-0-0.html

Now, this guy can at least drive OK, and I'm not seeing a lot of that iris effect that had me worried from the latest vids at gametrailers. These aren't hi-res, but there is a nice variety of stuff in the clips.

The game has two cockpit views. Look at the end of the first video. Video 8 has a cool cockpit view too.

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:35 am

Zeppo wrote:These videos here are assuaging my worries quite nicely!

http://www.jeuxvideo.fr/article-colin-m ... 7-0-0.html

Now, this guy can at least drive OK, and I'm not seeing a lot of that iris effect that had me worried from the latest vids at gametrailers. These aren't hi-res, but there is a nice variety of stuff in the clips.

Looks awesome for me

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:19 am

Another preview of the game

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=162235

Nozzleman_216 · Post by **Nozzleman_216** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:20 am

I didn't want to start a new thread yet for it, but Codies is reporting that they are now working on a new TOCA......Aka.... Race DriverOne. Not too many details, but they officially announced it according to TeamXbox.com

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:09 am

Forza pushed back to May 29th...grrrr.

Fshguy · Post by **Fshguy** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:21 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Forza pushed back to May 29th...grrrr.

Hmmm, that gives me only two days before the birth of my child... At least I'll be well prepared for the trip to the hospital, my poor wife...

Nozzleman_216 · Post by **Nozzleman_216** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:14 pm

well, according to a preview of this from Gamespot ( http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/driving ... ks;title;3 )
There will be no actual multi-player. Sure there will be the possibility 100 player lobbies for time trial so it will be like a real rally event, but no MP for the buggys and trucks

Kind of disappointing to me really! I was expectingly it for the other non rally racing.

johnvon314 · Post by **johnvon314** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:59 pm

EB Games has finally taken Colin McRae off although they've had DiRT on the 360 and PC at June 19 for a little white. Just three weeks after Forza 2!

John

Wilk5280 · Post by **Wilk5280** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:19 pm

Here's a link to Dirt's achievements. Pretty good insight to what's available in the game. I'm really looking foward to this bad boy.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/achi ... gameID=247

mixdj1 · Post by **mixdj1** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:25 pm

Check out the new trailer ... the one titled "Crash" from May 17th.

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/826/ ... ids_1.html

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:20 pm

Did anyone check out the video "swank menus". Has to be the best looking GUI ever made. Now if it works like NBA 2k menus then it will be shiite.

It looks like Apple core animations are being used in full force (or whatever graphics program does that kind of stuff, I just saw it in Apple's Leopard preview).

Anyway, I think this game has moved from rental to buy after seeing the "Crash" movie.

vader29 · Post by **vader29** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:43 pm

mixdj1 wrote:Check out the new trailer ... the one titled "Crash" from May 17th.

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/826/ ... ids_1.html

Wow, I love the cockpit view in the dunebuggys. Now I absolutely have to pick up the steering wheel for that.