![]() ![]() However, that’s a very minor gripe – after all, this was just a preview and not the full game!Īll-in-all, Dirt 5’s Playgrounds Preview has me excited for what the full game has to offer. Which leads me to my next point – whilst I completely understand the focus on Playgrounds, I feel the preview would have benefited from showing off what the game will have to offer in terms of the career mode, by letting the player test out some standard tracks, rather than player-generated ones. Also, the colors, whilst initially impressive, became nauseating and I yearned for the more natural tones of courses that are just on dirt. It was good for a few short bursts, but the novelty wore off for me. For one, making it exclusively about the Playgrounds mode got tiresome after a while. There were a couple of things I didn’t like about the time I spent in Dirt 5’s preview though. I look forward to tweaking my car in more depth in the full release through a career mode – something that isn’t possible in the Playgrounds preview build. Controls are intuitive and the cars feel really nice on the back end, perfectly tuned for some flips and tricks, drags, and turns. One stand-out was the Skoda Fabia that someone had selected as the vehicle of choice to complete their course with. It was a colorful and eye-catching experience. It seemed really well optimized and ran like a dream, whilst also looking top-notch. That’s a point I would like to hover on – the game looks amazing! I was playing on a PC equipped with 16GB RAM and 1080ti – so by no means up to date, but definitely a solid PC. ![]() This second option was by far the most fun for me, as I simply didn’t have the creativity or imagination to create a course that I would be proud to share with other players. I had two options: I could create my own courses in one of two arenas and publish them for others to try or, I could try my hand at courses that others have created. “Smash Attack”, where you’re given a target score to reach within a certain time limit by crashing into inflatable objects and there is of course a “Gate Crasher” mode – a frantic rush through obstacles and terrain changes to make it through checkpoints and set a blistering time. The “playgrounds” preview features three modes: “Gymkhana”, where you are given the chance to showcase your skill and prowess at the game by pulling off as many tricks and combos as possible in an allotted time. What is clear is that it’s a fun, exhilarating, and highly customizable preview, packed with content and it gives a good impression of what the full release will feel like. Whether this will be in the final version, or how much this reflects the content of the full game, is not clear. With Dirt 5 due to release in a couple of months on the 6th of November 2020, I was given the opportunity to test out an early version of the game which was centered around its “playground” mode. ![]()
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