Then again, it’s a way to involve the non-purists for whom Dirt Rally is too overwhelming, I suppose. In a game that is mind-blowingly good at the simulation aspect of rally racing – right down to stellar audio which really comes to life when hearing headphones over your VR headset – co-op felt a little out of place. The way it’s implemented made me say “I’ll stick to driving” though – navigating is reduced to a series of quick time events somewhat resembling the gameplay of your average rhythm-based music game like Rock Band or Guitar Hero. In co-op, the player not wearing the headset acts as your navigator – which in theory is a great thing. I’m actually a little sad to return to my Xbox One again after having playtested the VR version now.Įxclusive to the PSVR version of Dirt Rally is a two-player co-op mode, though I’m sure it’s nothing like what you would expect. And experience it, you should – the immersion is great and even though I’m an experienced Dirt Rally player I never had my heart racing as much as it did when I was approaching some of those all-too-familiar tricky turns in virtual reality. There was a VR update for Trackmania, but it only gave you limited access to VR – Codemasters is delivering the entire game to you in virtual reality if that’s how you choose to experience it. What’s important to note is that Dirt Rally in VR is ‘content complete’. In other words: it’s the perfect race experience for VR in its current (early-ish) state. That being said, Dirt Rally was never the audiovisual powerhouse that Driveclub was intended to be – the focus of Dirt Rally is on excellent gameplay, and the rally setting lends itself well to keeping the visuals relatively simple in terms of not having to render a lot of sprawling vistas and animated backdrops.

Sure, the visual quality takes a bit of a hit, but it never feels like the game suffers for it. Having played the base game at length – even though most of that was on an Xbox One – I was very pleasantly surprised with how good the game still looks in VR.

Its base game has been out for a while, but the VR-upgrade comes with Playstation 4 Pro support included – which is what we used for our test. If you didn’t jump on the VR bandwagon until after you got a Playstation 4 Pro then this wasn’t that big of a problem due to the optimizations for Sony’s upgraded console – but the damage was already done.Īlthough the timing helps, Codemasters is taking a better approach with Dirt Rally. There was just one problem: the transition to VR caused Driveclub’s visuals to take a significant hit, taking away much of the appeal. When Playstation VR came out, one of its flagship titles was Driveclub VR – merging one of the PS4’s best looking racers with the chance to experience it from the driver’s seat. Dirt Rally gets a VR upgrade for Playstation VR and becomes the top virtual reality racer on Playstation 4 at the moment.

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