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Colin McRae: Dirt

Become the king of off-road racing! Race rally and hill climb events as well as multi-car rally raid, rally cross and Corr buggy and truck racing. Unprecedented next-gen racing visuals and devastating car…

81 15 June 2007

Colin McRae: Dirt is a racing developed by Codemasters Southam, released 15 June 2007 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Colin McRae: Dirt is

Colin McRae: Dirt is a racing game developed by Codemasters Southam and released in 2007. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ego Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Colin McRae: Dirt is a simcade racing video game developed and published by Codemasters for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is the last of the series to be published before Colin McRae's death. It features new graphics, audio, physics engine, new vehicles and a new game engine called Neon which was co-developed between Codemasters and Sony Computer Entertainment. The game features a variety of off-road racing categories as well as World Rally Championship style events. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 in Europe on 14 September 2007, a day prior to Colin McRae's death. The sequel, Colin McRae: Dirt 2, was released in September 2009. A simplified version of the…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Colin McRae series

Colin McRae: Dirt is the 12th of 41 entries we hold in the Colin McRae series. It arrived 2 years after Colin McRae Rally 2005. The next entry was Colin McRae: Dirt in 2008. Its critic score of 81 is 4 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Dirt 3 at 86.

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How it was received

Colin McRae: Dirt holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 107 votes.

What it launched against

Colin McRae: Dirt launched on 15 June 2007, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma and The Darkness. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, The Darkness.

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When did Colin McRae: Dirt come out?
Colin McRae: Dirt was released on 15 June 2007 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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