Dirt 2 demo
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Saturday 22 August 2009 00:06

It looks good. And compared to FUEL it makes it
clear why it's better to just have a finely tuned
track than just miles of nothing. It might even be
a good rally game, but I don't like all the fluff
surrounding it. I don't need Ken Block or Travis
Pastrana getting paid to show up in a studio and
read some lines to try to make a game appear cool.
They are not good at that anyway, and they are not
famous for their voice-acting, so they could have
just picked any redneck. And it reduces the game to
a product for wannabe losers who think it has
anything to do with what happens outside. They
might as well read NASCAR romances.

And there is hardly any point of setting up a whole
trailer as a menu if it's whole look and feel is
generic. It only shows you've got a whole bunch of
corporate sponsors that take themselves to
seriously to make things fun and don't like
anything that might increase the age limit.
Motorstorm, FUEL, Dirt: if the world besides the
track is some dead festival, just drop it. Because
it's not possible to translate a real world 18+
event to a 18- game without killing it.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/play/2009/08/22/dirt-2-demo/