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Since early December, Colin Mc Rae Dirt 2 is available on PC (as well as on other platforms XBox, PS3, ...), and this is the version proposed by the publisher Codemaster that we tested.

After a first episode of Dirt, released in 2007 which had not packed the crowds because, if the graphics were rather successful, the playability and feel of the road is not very good, as Codemasters puts it in a sequence that is much more impressive ...

Dirt 2 is not less than one hundred tests on five continents (Los Angeles, Utah, Japan, China, Malaysia, London, Morocco or Mexico) with tests RallyCross of Trailblazer, Raid, Rally, or even of Landrush.

One of the great innovations of the Dirt 2009 is the inclusion of any recent Microsoft DirectX 11 graphics that gives impressive as can be seen below:

In addition to graphics, music has also been treated with a playlist of 46 songs:

• Biffy Clyro - Mountains
• Black Stone Cherry - Blind Man
• Black Tide - Shout
• Blakfish - Jeremy Kyle Is A Marked Man
• Bloc Party - Helicopter
• Deichkind - Ich Mich Betaeube
• Die! Die! Die! - Sideways Here We Come
• Dinosaur Pileup - All Around The World
• Eagles Of Death Metal - Wannabe In LA
• Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
• Hollow Earth Theory - Transmission
• Iglu & Hartly - Viiolent & Young
• Kram - Good Love
• Ladyhawke - My Delerium
• Madina Lake - Never Take Us Alive
• MSTRKRFT - Work On You
• Proceed - Treading Water
• Prodigy - Warriors Dance
• Qemists - Lost Weekend
• Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister
• Rise Against - Injection
• Santogold - Say Aha
• Scars On Broadway - They Say
• Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year
• Bloc Party - Talons
• Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
• Friendly Fires - In The Hospital
• Friendly Fires - Lovesick
• Glamor Of The Kill - A Hope In Hell
• Steadlur - BumpN
• Templeton Pek - Red Lights Flash
• The Automatic - Steve McQueen
• The Cribs - Men's Needs
• The Futureheads - Radio Heart
• The Hot Melts - Edith
• The Rakes - 1989
• The Stone Roses - This Is The One
• The Subways - I Will not Let You Down
• The Temper Trap - Science of Fear
• The Walkmen - The Rat
• Tommy Sparks - I'm A Rope
• You Me At Six - Save It For The Bedroom
• Unkle ft. Josh Homme - Restless
• White Denim - Let's Talk About It
• White Lies - To Lose My Life
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control

The hardware configuration recommended by the editor as follows:

Operating system:
- Win XP, Win Vista and Win Seven

Processor:
- Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2

RAM:
- 1 GB (2 GB for Vista / 7)

Graphics:
- 256 MB, Compatible with DirectX 9 (SM 3.0)

Disk Space:
- 12.5 GB

Sound Card:
- Compatible with DirectX 9

DirectX Version:
- DirectX 9

Media:
- DVD

And here is the configuration used for this test video:

- CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q9550
- RAM: 8GB OCZ Reaper HPC DDR3
- Motherboard: Asus Rampage Extreme X48
- Graphics card: Vapor-X Sapphire HD 4890 2GB
- Power: Fortron Everest 1010

If like me you experience lags incomprehensible menus in the game (not during races) and you have an ATI graphics card, you must download and install the latest Ati drivers (a hotfix is dedicated to the game) that are designed specifically for avoid problems with Dirt 2. This worked very well for me and the game runs with "very substantive" at about 60 fps .

Here are our three videos that will help us gain insight into the driving experience and the beauty of the landscape:

The replay of a race-type "shooting star" (go from one point to another as quickly as possible without using the co-pilot and with just the information from GPS), in the American desert in Utah behind the wheel 'a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

Here is the replay of an event Rally driving a Subaru Impreza WRC in the Moroccan desert. Much of the video mode is "view from inside the car" to see the quality of detail and have an idea of the sensations provided by this mode of conduct:

And finally the video of a race RallyRaid with one of the many 4 × 4 proposed by the game Although much slower, the races are not without difficulties as it is difficult to drive in the mud bumps, any lapse in concentration will connect you directly with a tree and another railing ... This race is in the Malaysian jungle:

For all fans of rally, no doubt this game will become a reference but not everything is perfect in the kingdom of Dirt 2 because he is short of concrete road races (only) which would have made, I believe the Rally ultimate game. Some races offer in effect an alternating gravel / sand / asphalt, which increases the difficulty with alternating "grip and handling of the car but no test is not exclusively road (apparently).

For those who prefer circuits "in hard, you can still see the other reference publisher Codemasters, Race Driver GRID, released last year, which is exclusively dedicated to racing on circuits.

For more information on Dirt 2, you can visit the official game site.

Enjoy with Dirt 2 and ... vroom vroom

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