While I did crash a couple of times, it wasn't enough to completely damage my car beyond repair, and I made it to the end of the race in second place – which awarded me a hefty amount of credits in prize money.Īs you might expect, cash is used to buy new, higher-performance cars, which enable you to enter more advanced races. It was set in the snowy climes of Monte Carlo, and the four-stage road-based course was a lot easier to tackle than Greece. Choice made, I tackled my first race, which ended in the aforementioned slide into oblivion. I chose a Mini Cooper S over a Lancia Fulvia HF and a Renault Alpine A110, because I've always had a soft spot for the classic compact car. When you first start the game, you're given a budget of 50,000 credits, which is enough to buy one of three different 1960's rally cars. Most courses are a little more forgiving, although you still have to drive them carefully to ensure you don't slide off the road, crash into a tree or rock, or indeed roll your car. It just happens that the first race I entered was based in Greece, whose winding stages are particularly dangerous to a novice driver. Fortunately, not all of DiRT Rally's tracks are hazardous mountainous courses with no barriers to protect you from a precipitous, race-ending drop. If you don't, you'll end up like I did in my first race – at the bottom of a cliff. This is a game where you have to really concentrate while driving, listen intently to your co-driver's instructions, and drive within your limits. It sets out to be the most realistic rally racing game yet seen, and having put many hours into the game since that first race-ending crash, I believe that it delivers on that promise. DiRT Rally definitely doesn't suffer fools gladly. In my interview with DiRT Rally lead designer Paul Coleman last week, he said that the game is a hardcore rally simulation that doesn't pull its punches, and based on what I've just experienced, I have to agree. It's tough, but then again, I'm not exactly surprised. There's no rewind, the normally-helpful recovery button doesn't work in this particular situation because my car is too damaged to drive, and I don't get to automatically move on to the next leg of the four-stage race.
On the first stage of my first race, I overcook a particularly tight corner, and my 1960's rally Mini ends up tumbling down a cliff. It's not the most auspicious of starts to my DiRT Rally career.
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