DiRT: Showdown

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DiRT Showdown is not a broken game; it's just very slap-dash, seemingly thrown together from pieces of ideas but never made fully whole. Courses repeat over and over and the difficulty never gets too high where events become a challenge, thus leaving the player almost bored with the task of completing each event. It looks nice, but it's clearly a shell of its former self, with no real connections to the series that everyone knows past the name itself.
-- As reviewed by Destructoid DiRT: Showdown
66

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70

With the price of showdown falling, I would recommend this game to any burnout fan that sees this at a low price. Remember though, as with almost all games nowadays, an online pass is required which will make buying a used game not really an option.

By SenioGamers on
67

Ordinary game modes, unchallenging Gymkhana and broken collisions. It's an average racing game that's thin on unique content. Showdown is a forgettable blunder for a great...

By New Game Network on
70

DiRT Showdown is not a broken game; it's just very slap-dash, seemingly thrown together from pieces of ideas but never made fully whole. Courses repeat over and over and the difficulty never gets too high where events become a challenge, thus leaving the player almost bored with the task of completing each event. It looks nice, but it's clearly a shell of its former self, with no real connections to the series that everyone knows past the name itself.

By Destructoid on
70

A fter spending a few hours playing Dirt Showdown, it's hard to believe that this is what the Colin McRae franchise has evolved (or mutated, depending on your affinity towards rally games) into. Yes, this is just a crashes-and-donuts, summer...

By FirstPost on
50

Codies said openly not too long ago that being a racing game developer was the new priority. With a respectable stable that includes the (relatively) high end in F1, the rally scene in Dirt 3, the time comes to fill the less sophisticated end of the...

By PC Authority on
76

DiRT Showdown is a dramatic departure from what fans have come to expect from the series. It's turned away from a focus on racing other cars in a frantic dash for the finish line to instead focus on destruction, and lots of it. It's a change that...

By Cheat Code Central on
40

Fans of Codemasters' DiRT series (nee Colin McRae Rally) have come to expect a high standard of off-road racing goodness. Sumptuous visuals and grin-inducing driving physics have powered previous chapters to the front of the pack, but that ride comes...

By GameSpy on
70

If you are looking for classic DiRT racing you best look the other way. If you are looking for a visually pleasing, over-the-top, arcade style racer jump right in.DiRT Showdown is a new twist to the series from Codemasters and while the gameplay is...

By g3ar.co.za on
80

It's a spin-off weaned on destruction derbies and deep-fried snacks. A game where the road to victory is littered with the dented and busted wrecks you've rammed off the track.Showdown's driving challenges veer from speeding around tracks designed for...

By Stuff on
80

If you're looking for the next great rally simulator, you won't find it here. But to ignore Dirt Showdown because of its arcade styling would be to deny yourself one of the most satisfying of pleasures: that of mindless, over-the-top, and--above all--deliciously addictive destruction.

By GameSpot on