Dirt 4

Game SkinnyPierre Fouquet

9/10

DiRT 4 is a game of two halves, literally. Each half is excellent, but I still feel something is missing.

GamingBoltShubhankar Parijat

9/10

Thanks to great, authentic, and accessible mechanics and plenty of content to offer, Dirt 4 is one of the best rallying games we’ve played in the last few years.

Impulse GamerTony Smith

When it comes to definitive rally driving, the DiRT series by Codemasters is the King of the Hill and has been around since 2007 (Colin McRae: Dirt). Sure the

GameSpaceChristopher Coke

8.5/10

Dirt 4 is a great rally game. The accessibility it presents to newcomers, quickly transcending into more advanced driving techniques is one of its strongest features, but the thrill of the race on these unpredictable, minimap-less tracks never failed to get my heart pumping. There are some odd quirks with physics – cars have a tendency to pirouette like a ballerina from hitting a ridge the wrong way – and a too limited track creator, but these are nitpicks before all that Dirt 4 does so r...

COGConnectedKenneth A. Barnes

84/100

Back in the days of Sony’s first PlayStation, rally games were ten-a-penny. Everybody and their dog thought that they could just sign up some big-name driver and emulate the success of Codemasters’ genre-defining Colin McRae series. Those days thankfully came and went and now just a handful of contenders are left standing. Nobody has come close to rivaling Codies’ best though and with last year’s outstanding DiRT Rally, they proved that they were still masters of the sport.

DiRT 4 does a remarkable job of creating a sense of speed, however, which is more than can be said for the last rally game I played, and I had such a great time handbreaking around tight corners when they came up. I had even more fun when I learned how to “work” with my navigator and then was able to hit those same sharp corners at complete speed with foggy or dark conditions where I couldn’t rely on my eyesight seeing things in time at all. DiRT 4 might not be my kind of racing game normally, and nothing will ever compare with the thrill of weaving in and out of a clustered mass in an F…

Gamers HeroesCasey Scheld

80/100

DiRT 4 will appeal to almost any type of racer. The sheer amount of options guarantees long term play, and though more locales will be nice, the variety of vehicles, modes, and conditions more than makes up for it.

KeenGamerMatthew Smail

8/10

DiRT 4 is Codemasters latest and greatest rally and off-road racing simulator, bringing together the content from 2015's superlative DiRT Rally spinoff with this years more mainstream DiRT entry. The question is, will the more serious presentation and gameplay style that made Rally so popular translate into the flashier world of DiRT? Let's find out.

WCCFtechChris Wray

8/10

In December 2015, Codemasters released DIRT Rally. There's little argument against saying it's the best rally game ever released. It had a laser focus and knew exactly what it wanted to be. Moving away from the DIRT franchise's more accessible nature, DIRT Rally had a steep learning curve, it was terribly difficult and uncompromising to anybody and everybody alike. DIRT 4 has both eased this off slightly and also gone too far, gutting the game of any challenge.

DestructoidPeter Glagowski

7.5/10

With better care given to the other modes and maybe some concrete rally tracks, this could have been the definitive rally racing game. As it stands, though, DiRT 4 is a hardcore simulation with limited appeal beyond a specific audience. Those fans will absolutely love this game, but any newcomers should try to cut their teeth somewhere else.

PC GamerAndy Kelly

70/100

A mud-caked thrill when you’re behind the wheel, but disappointing elsewhere.

Checkpoint GamingLuke Mitchell

Unscored

DiRT has always been a more serious racer than most, focusing on rally driving, particularly prominent in 2015’s DiRT Rally. It was incredibly difficult almost to a fault, with precision driving required and relatively unforgiving with its strict time trials. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but it alienated an audience that is much used to a more arcade style that’s been presented in other franchises. DiRT 4 bridges the gap between simulation and arcade in a far more s...