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None of these modes particularly stand out either, as they're mostly races with some minor gimmicks. Air Time challenges players to get the most air from jumping off a ramp, and Last Man Standing encourages racers to remain in first place because each lap drops the lowest-ranked player from the race.
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Challenge mode allows racers to play a series of mini-games. You race, and occasionally you get a new place to race or a new car to race in, but that's about the extent of it, and you have little control over what you unlock. Neither involves any element of customization or strategy. These two modes are where you'll spend the bulk of your time, and while they're fine racing game staples, they're not particularly interesting. You can also choose a championship race to participate in a series of five races at once.
Arcade mode allows you to race on any track or with any car at will, and you can do time trials to improve your high score. World Tour is a sort of career mode, where you go through a series of races and gradually unlock new tracks and new cars. There are only three kinds of game modes available to players: World Tour, Arcade and Challenge. The races are fairly boring affairs, with the only excitement occurring when you deal with the wonky physics. There's really not a tremendous amount to do in Dirt 2, and it makes it really difficult to keep your attention focused on the game. The only real obstacle you need to overcome in the game is the physics. They don't run a particularly aggressive or interesting race, and they're quite unmemorable. The enemy racers are not particularly interesting, and in many cases, they may as well not be there. The only real benefit is that the opposing racers seem to have as hard a time as you do in some of the game's more poorly designed stages, so you can win if you go extremely slow and play cautiously - words that you usually don't hear in connection with a racing game. Any stage in the game that involves air time goes from mindlessly entertaining to system-breaking frustrating in a matter of moments.
At first, this does a good job of making the game feel incredibly fast-paced despite the PSP's technical limitations, but as the game wears on, it gets less fun. Everything feels weightless and overly light, and it certainly makes races frustrating when you miss a turn because your car acted like a balloon. Whatever the gravity is like in the world of Dirt 2, it certainly doesn't match up to Earth, and so the cars don't seem to move in natural ways. It's also simplistic when compared to most modern racing games this wouldn't be a tremendous problem if the game were polished enough to be a quality standout, but it feels half-baked instead.ĭirt 2's biggest problem is the bizarre and unnatural racing physics.
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There aren't any particularly innovative mechanics, the level design doesn't stand out, and nothing really encourages players to notice it over the many other PSP racing titles. On the down side, this also makes it really hard for Dirt 2 to stand out because there's nothing original or interesting about it. Players are placed on the track and expected to reach the end there aren't many controls that you need to know aside from accelerate and brake, so it's a very easy game to pick up and play. There aren't any special gimmicks or twists here, and it's fairly simplistic when compared to the console version so don't expect any plots or special abilities. On the surface, Dirt 2 is a fairly average racing game. Unfortunately, this comes at the cost of everything else in the game, and the result is a racing title that veers between mediocre to borderline unplayable. Dirt 2 does its best to give the game a sense of speed. It's not possible to make a PSP game look as good, and since the sense of speed in a racing game is crucial, that requires some clever ideas. It may seem simple enough, but the best racing games have complexity and mechanics far beyond "drive in a circle." It takes a clever developer to make a game on the PSP stand out, especially due to all the technical limitations.
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The PlayStation Portable is a great system for a lot of genres, but one of the hardest to do well is the racing game.
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