I was first introduced to the Colin McRae series back with the ’04 version of the game, and I was instantly hooked. Despite having to play it at very low settings on my old PC, it was great fun, and I used to like seeing how hard I could push a car before smashing it into a wall and losing a wheel or two, and a bumper, and possibly the windscreen, mirrors, doors, boot, lights, and every other part of the car before eventually passing the finish line with a scrap metal cube with one wheel*. 
Anyway, just five years on, Codemasters have released Colin McRae: DiRT 2. I enjoyed the original DiRT, but it was nothing special – sure, it looked nice, and was fun to play, but the cars seemed to be unrealistic to drive – for example, they seemed to accelerate too quickly, and they slid around on the road. A lot.
DiRT 2, on the other hand, is MUCH better. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that DiRT 2 is one of my all time favourite games. I’ve only had it four days now, but it’s insanely fun to play, and looks amazing. When you jump into the game for the first time, you’re greeted by…well, it can’t really be described as a menu, because a menu is a static boring list of options. In DiRT 2, you’re basically greeted by a pretty amazing interior of an RV, and when you go outside, you’re greeted by a pretty detailed festival-like environment, with the background of whatever country your last race was in. Honestly, the menu alone is worth buying the game for.
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