DIRT 5‘s local multiplayer options are brilliant, allowing up to four players to take part in the game’s career. While jostling for leaderboard positions is entertaining enough, some will want more direct competition. It’s just a shame that, taking part in enclosed arenas, they don’t offer the best scenery. Already there are many hugely impressive events to get stuck into, with a rating system allowing players to bring the best to the forefront for others. Players from around the world can upload their creations for others to enjoy, with online leaderboards providing the impetus to compete for the best times or scores. You don’t need to be creative to enjoy Playgrounds Mode though. Though there is enough depth to reward those that really want to be inventive and create innovative challenges. It may seem daunting at first, but throwing together your own courses is actually pretty simple. You can create your own events within three arenas, choosing from three event types – Gate Crasher, Gymkhana, and Smash Attack. Once you’re done with or want a break from DIRT 5‘s Career, Playgrounds Mode seems set to provide some serious long-term entertainment. Will you listen to what they have to say? I wasn’t inclined to I was usually too keen to get back into the action, weighing up my next event options or checking out my available sponsors to see if any of them were more lucrative than my current one. Much has been made of Troy Baker’s and Nolan North’s involvement, but DIRT 5‘s story boils down to little more than them barking at you between events. The only real disappointment you’re likely to experience with the game’s career is if you were hoping for an engaging story. Then, moving into the third lap, the floor could be covered in snow, and darkness means visibility is even further reduced. You can start a race in broad daylight, with the skies looking clear. It helps greatly that the game has both dynamic time and weather systems. You can sit playing it solidly for multiple hours, competing one event after another, without the feeling of repetition ever creeping in. It’s rare that you feel like you’re treading old ground in DIRT 5. You’ll go from racing rally classics to muscle cars to buggies, and even something that looks like it has torture devices for wheels. The icing on the cake is the huge number of cars in which to compete spread across ten classes. Then you have a multitude of event types to add into the mix traditional circuit and point-to-point races are broken up by less conventional events such as Ice Breaker where you’re racing on, er, ice, and Stampede, where the terrain is terribly unforgiving. Events take part across ten locations, including the likes of Brazil, China, Norway, and South Africa. It all comes down to the sheer variety of what’s on offer. Chances are though, that you’ll go back to complete the others if you haven’t already been doing so, because each event in DIRT 5 is a pleasure to compete in. There are over 120 events in total, but to see the credits roll you need to beat just less than a third of them. You’ll make your way through five chapters of races, charting your own path from beginning to end.
With the main feature of DIRT 5 being its Career, you get the feeling that it’s a game aimed primarily at the single-player racer. And to conquer the competition, especially if you turn the difficulty up, you need to learn them like the back of your hand. There’s a huge number of tracks here, but they’re more memorable than they are in, let’s say, DiRT Rally 2.0 thanks to how alive they are because of their trackside detail. It’s challenging but not overly demanding, and with most of its events being circuit races, it presents the challenge of off-road racing but with traditional racing sensibilities. But the gist of it is that DIRT 5 is a jolly good time. Well, let me tell you: it’s not the latest entry in DiRT Rally, Codemasters’ hardcore rally series, and while its name might suggest it’s a follow up to 2017’s DiRT 4, it’s perhaps got more in common with 2012’s DiRT Showdown.
With so many DIRT games available, unless you’ve been closely following the development of DIRT 5 you might not be sure exactly what it is. I’ve never had as much fun with a rally game as I have had with DIRT 5.
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