I think the 'random stages' and the AI don't mix personally. The AI are impossible to beat in some classes and super easy in others. If you want fun with the '70s cars you have to go for DR.Īgain, this is personal preference, but the career mode is so disjointed it's no fun. The cars have weight, tarmac physics are better. Stages are infinite combinations, but they're a mix of the same 20-30 corners in different orders. You can learn the stages and thus not listen to the pacenotes after a few runnings (especially useful for that one corner in Greece with completely the wrong note!). The cars have no 'weight', Finland is basically broken because the cars fly twice as far in their air as in real life. Pike's Peak and hillclimb mode (I'm happy it's not in the future ones, but it's a 'Pro' if it interests you). Prefer the career mode (IMO) - a caveat that this is very personal preference the AI is super challenging and you won't win rallies often unless you're very good, getting podia is an achievement. If simultaneous multiplayer rallying is important to you, then go for D4.īetter stages (IMO) - they're hand-crafted and iconic.īetter handling on the ground and gravel. DiRT Rally on the other hand is a very realistic Sim focusing on Rally races against the time of the AI and wheel to wheel Rallycross races. On the other hand, you might play Dirt 4 and find out that it's not fun, because of it's 'beginner-friendliness'. GRID has a very unrealistic 'arcade' style of handling focusing mostly on racetrack wheel to wheel racing. But the general idea is that if you haven't played DR1 you shouldn't buy it because the game is hard and you might end up not having fun with it. Do you prefer 70s RWD cars or modern 4WDs + FWDs? If the former, go for DR, if the latter go for D4. I think that Dirt Rally 2.0 is better, more engaging and more fun than Dirt 4. It's hard to say how you'll feel about the two very different stage systems, so I'd ask yourself the following questions:
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But DiRT 4 has better multiplayer (DR doesn't have any multiplayer for rally stages). Both are pretty good, but both have their downsides.ĭiRT Rally is the bigger challenge personally, and I would recommend this one.