Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (known as Dirt 2 in the Americas and stylised, DiRT 2) is a racing game released in September 2009, and is the sequel to Colin McRae: Dirt. This is the first game in the McRae series since McRae's death in 2007. It was announced on 19 November 2008 and features Ken Block, Travis Pastrana, Tanner Foust, and Dave Mirra. The game includes many new race-events, including stadium events. Along with the player, an RV travels from one event to another, and serves as "headquarters" for the player. It features a roster of contemporary off-road events, taking players to diverse and challenging real-world environments. The game takes place across four continents: Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. The game includes five different event types: Rally, Rallycross, "Trailblazer", "Land Rush" and "Raid". The World Tour mode sees players competing in multi-car and solo races at new locations, and also includes a new multiplayer mode.

Colin McRae: Dirt is the first PC video game to use Blue Ripple Sound's Rapture3D sound engine by default. Also it was one of the first video games to implement the then newly released DirectX 11 graphical standard on ATI 5000 and NVIDIA Geforce 400 series chipsets.

A demo of the game was released on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace on 20 August 2009. The demo appeared for the PC on 29 November 2009; it features the same content as the console demo with the addition of higher graphic settings and a benchmark tool.

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 is an official sponsor of Ken Block, Travis Pastrana, Tanner Foust and Dave Mirra of the Subaru Rally USA. The game also features former rally driver Mohammed ben Sulayem.

The sequel Dirt 3 is scheduled for release on May 24th 2011.

Alternative Titles

DiRT 2, Colin McRae: DiRT 2

Platform

Xbox 360

Developer(s)

Codemasters

Publishers(s)

Codemasters

Genres(s)

Racing, Simulation, Sports

NA Release Date

September 8, 2009

JP Release Date

November 5, 2009

EU Release Date

September 11, 2009

AUS Release Date

September 17, 2009

ESRB Rating

Teen

PEGI Rating

PEGI 12

CERO Rating

CERO A

ACB Rating

PG

MVGL User Score

8.1 by 36 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

2.0000

Composer(s)

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This game also exists on:
PlayStation 3 PC Nintendo Wii Nintendo DS Sony PSP Mac

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