A peek at the Career mode menu and how some races offer branching paths.Ī feature that can help Dirt 5 sustain long-term interest is Playground mode, a track creator system that gives you the tools to wild out by making your own arenas for the more outlandish styles of play. There's supposed to be some drama between your mentor AJ (voiced by Troy Baker) and your rival Bruno (voiced by Nolan North), but at this point in the career, this story element hasn't really surfaced much yet. Folks who keep up with the real automotive world may also recognize Donut Media, who do an in-game podcast that narrates the events as you progress through the Career mode. Dirt 5 also includes Gymkhana, which is all about style as you showboat in a makeshift arena to flex your drifting, donut-making, and precision driving skills to earn points.Īll these modes, and a few others, make up the career path, which branches at certain points so you can choose which race types you want to focus on in order to progress, in case you're averse to a particular racing style (I'm always gonna pass on Sprint, but that's just me). But you'll also take part in the more off-beat competitive races like Icebreaker, which has you slipping and sliding across icy tracks as you control your drift to take first place-or Sprint, which is another drift-focused race with tiny single-gear vehicles on a small circular dirt track. Now Playing: Dirt 5 Xbox Series X 4K Gameplay - Ice Drifting And Rally Racing Career Mode And PlaygroundĪ decent variety of race types fills out Dirt 5's arcade-sim offering, such as the Ultracross with speedier cars and Land Rush with hulking off-road vehicles, both of which are circuit-based races against other drivers. So far, I've cleared what shakes out to be about a quarter of the career mode and while there's certainly more to experience as the game continues to open up, it's been fairly standard fare even if this entry represents the Dirt series breaking out of its shell.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's I've been able to put a few hours into a preview build of Dirt 5 through Xbox's Insider Hub as I continue to also preview the Xbox Series X-this is one of the first actual next-gen games we've had access to in order to put the console to the test. It's adopted an attitude in its presentation and gameplay style, and through all its flourishes and changes to become a more approachable style of rally racing game, the early hours have been a fun ride, though fairly basic. With Dirt 5, the simulation aspect has taken a backseat in what feels more like a Forza Horizon (without the open world). Dirt 5 isn't the rally racing sim you may know from the series' past no more listening closely for your co-driver's callouts for upcoming turns or carefully whipping your rally car around in nature's dirt tracks by your lonesome.
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