DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road Announced and Screens

[bapenguin]

Codemasters has announced their latest Colin McRae Rally title, this time for the next generation consoles and PC. Colin McRae: DIRT™ (DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road) is set to be the most diverse and exhilarating off-road racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world over. Events will include the series’ intense point-to-point races and then take players further off-road than ever before.

Full press release Inside. (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=348836#post348836)
3 sew screenshots Here (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15279).

http://www.evilavatar.com/images/previews/cmr/thumb.CMRDirt_evo_02_comp_004.jpg (http://www.evilavatar.com/images/previews/image.php?image=www.evilavatar.com/images/previews/cmr/CMRDirt_evo_02_comp_004.jpg)

[bapenguin]

Colin McRae kicks up DIRT as genre-leading series goes next-gen.

All new, next-gen Colin McRae named, formats and simultaneous launch confirmed.

Colin McRae: DIRT™ is today revealed as the title* for the next generation of the genre leading, 8-million+ selling rally racing series. Codemasters also confirms the game will launch for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC simultaneously in 2007. A special edition for mobile phones will also be available from Codemasters Mobile.

Colin McRae: DIRT™ is set to be the most diverse and exhilarating off-road racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world over. Events will include the series’ intense point-to-point races and then take players further off-road than ever before.

Race in challenging heavyweight 850bhp cars, drifting on the loose gravel and high-speed blind corners of Hill Climb events along perilous cliff edges. All 12.4 miles of the world famous Pikes Peak International is included, with over 150 precarious turns to negotiate through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

How about engaging in multiple car races with Dakar-style trucks and super-powered 4x4s on the toughest desert terrain in Rally Raid competitions? Then there are Rally Cross events, switching between dirt and road racing, where the competition is always tight, fast and collisions with your opponents are inevitable.

With more off-road racing styles to be revealed, Colin McRae: DIRT™ will also offer a dedicated mode for European, International and Global rally championships featuring official 2WD, 4WD, Classic and RWD rally cars.

Colin McRae: DIRT™ will deliver the wheel-screaming exhilaration of off-road racing with the next generation of the series’ sublime car handling and physics system and a devastating new damage engine that ensures players experience every bump in the track, every loose rock, every inch of shifting dirt through the reactive environments.

With an incredible range of off-road vehicles, thrill-packed tracks, modes that make the most of online multiplayer, and more varied events than any other single-championship rally game, Colin McRae is being reborn as a bigger, faster, wilder racing experience.

Get ready for total mud splattering, gravel churning, handbrake turning, off-road racing in Colin McRae: DIRT™, coming 2007 for PlayStation®3, Xbox™360 and PC. Sign up for the drive of your life and receive advance race briefings online at www.codemasters.com/dirt

NOTES:
Game titled “Colin McRae: DIRT™” in PAL territories. In the U.S.A, the game is titled “DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road™”.

[Goronmon]

Maybe I'm way off base, but those look like screen captures from an intro movie.

[Psykoboy2]

Bout time. A friend of mine who worked on Burnout (and then who quit not long after EA bought Criterion) now works for Codemasters. He's been telling me about this thing ever since. That and the PS3 and Wii devkits. From his talk, he's very happy with what they have done.

[Kamalot]

Sensational gravel, mud and dirt?

Oh, I'm so there! They know my kryptonite!

[KidCactus]

Sensational gravel, mud and dirt?
Sensational [gravel, mud and dirt] events. ;)

[Morratut]

Impressive screens. I wonder if these are in game. Never played the Codemasters rally games. This could be my first.

[Lunar Blue]

At least you can see the polygon edges on the cars, can't say how ingame that scenery is but it's shit hot.

[Slack3r78]

Screens certainly look great, but I'll withold judgement. The CMR series has always been on the more arcadey side of the spectrum and has drifted more and more in that direction the last few iterations. Richard Burns Rally is still the pinnacle of offroad driving simulation, though I've not heard anything about what's going to happen to the series since we lost Richard Burns to a brain tumor last year.

[absolut taco]

WTF? Did they do some market research and were told that Americans like the name of the game first, then the name of the series, but in Europe it's the other way around. CodeMasters need to start naming their games the same all over. It's fucking confusing!

[Wyrm]

Yeah, the names of these games continue to get more retarded over time.

[LilEvilFish]

Screenshots? Don't make me laugh. Yeah I too can make screenshots by pressing print screen when the intro is running.

Sorry I'm just distrusting of Codemasters after the screen shots they released of Toca3 were a blatant lie and then buggered the toca series with the bug stick.

[Kamalot]

Sensational [gravel, mud and dirt] events. ;)
*shh* (I know that!) :)

[KidCactus]

Sure you do. :p Anyway, why not make it a sensational dirty racing game instead; DIRTY: Girls Gone Off-Road? Now THAT would sell!

[Slack3r78]

WTF? Did they do some market research and were told that Americans like the name of the game first, then the name of the series, but in Europe it's the other way around. CodeMasters need to start naming their games the same all over. It's fucking confusing!
It probably has more to do with Colin McRae not being a household name in the US.

[Kamalot]

Sure you do. :p Anyway, why not make it a sensational dirty racing game instead; DIRTY: Girls Gone Off-Road? Now THAT would sell!
You know, you are so right.

[absolut taco]

It probably has more to do with Colin McRae not being a household name in the US.
He's a better name than DIRT. Besides, anyone with a passing interest in rally knows who he is, even in the US.

[Kamalot]

But... I know what DIRT is, and I wouldn't buy a DIRT game.

[Slack3r78]

But... I know what DIRT is, and I wouldn't buy a DIRT game.
You misunderestimate the perception of all Americans being backwoods rednecks. :-P

[Kamalot]

I suppose people buy water, why not dirt too?

[Sensei-X]

I suppose people buy water, why not dirt too?

Why not call it Mud, satisfy two demographics at the same time.

[Thenetcase]

Why not call it Mud, satisfy two demographics at the same time.

Well they also buy canned air...
So I guess you could call it Flying Mud and bring it all together. Then throw in bikini girls and some "racing" and call it "Bikini Girls Flying Mud Racing" and then it would sell like there was no tomorrow. It might even out sell The Sims 2 for a while.

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