I've Bought Half A Game ....

albert · 5 Jul 2011 at 01:36

DiRT3. I thought I'd bought the full game but the amount of DLC they want you to download and buy is now ridiculous. Even on the single player you are required to buy events. It feels like I've only bought half a game.
Is it possible to play this game without buying anything and should i just ignore all the DLC options because I'm quite tempted to uninstall .....

BobbyBBB · 5 Jul 2011 at 04:07

Sounds as bad or worse than black ops :eek:

Shamikebab · 5 Jul 2011 at 07:17

I played the game fine without buying anything :confused:

gropingmantis · 5 Jul 2011 at 07:33

There aren't extra Singleplayer events?

All the DLC are more tracks and cars and the game has plenty of cars in it to begin with. If you could only have a Dirt2 amount of cars to begin with I could see your point but the game comes with something like 30 Rally cars, 8-10? Rallycross cars, 6 Trail Blazers, 4 Raid Trucks, 4 Gymkhana cars, Stock Buggies and Trucks

orderoftheflame · 5 Jul 2011 at 07:43

Shamikebab said:
I played the game fine without buying anything

gropingmantis said:
There aren't extra Singleplayer events?

All the DLC are more tracks and cars and the game has plenty of cars in it to begin with. If you could only have a Dirt2 amount of cars to begin with I could see your point but the game comes with something like 30 Rally cars, 8-10? Rallycross cars, 6 Trail Blazers, 4 Raid Trucks, 4 Gymkhana cars, Stock Buggies and Trucks

This tbh. Which events DLC do you mean? :confused:

There's a ton of content in the standard game. There's been one track pack, and that was only released a week ago or so.

FeFiDoh · 5 Jul 2011 at 07:44

sig is to big albert

gropingmantis · 5 Jul 2011 at 07:47

FeFiDoh said:
sig is to big albert

That too.

Single player is pretty long as well. What 4 seasons of 4 series of events each comprising of 5-6 events made up of 2-4 stages AND the "world series" in each discipline not enough?

phatboy · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:12

you can happily just play through without dlcs. I got the free car pack and mcrae charity pack for 1.20 but that's it.
the extra courses etc do give you bonus events though by the looks of things. i just think that's quite cool as it extends the seasons if you want

jakspyder · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:16

less gymkhana crap and more rally imo!

gropingmantis · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:29

jakspyder said:
less gymkhana crap and more rally imo!

Agreed. We've moved away from Colin McRae Rally and now we are into Ken Block Rally(This should be line through but isnt working

) Gymkhana. Trouble is Ken Block doesnt do Rally so good

CaptainRAVE · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:36

Shamikebab said:
I played the game fine without buying anything

Same here!?! Think the OP is exagerating just a little.

I do greatly dislike the gymkhana tho.

Shamikebab · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:36

The Gymkhana is really good though and adds something different to enjoy, love the free roaming round Battersea. There is plenty of Rally and similar.

phatboy · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:01

same here. Gymkhana is pretty cracking

gropingmantis · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:22

Gymkhana should have been DLC

Devrij · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:41

There is a SP that's only aailable as DLC if you have the monaco pack, it's in the last triangle. As others have said, I don't need DLC to enjoy the game, it's still good

rjk · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:41

Gymkhana is good but could have been implemented better.
the gymkhana videos you see online are all in interesting and diverse places. perhaps a few gymkhana arenas similar to Battersea would have been better than these 'staged' Gymkhana arenas with the same 5 obstacles repeated over again.
the French autodrome from Gymkhana 3 for example?

there is plenty of rally and a nice variation of other events so gymkhana is a decent addition albeit not implemented well enough. obviously there is no WRC pc game so there is still nothing for the purists, but for what it is, I am glad they included Gymkhana.

in reference to the OP. I do understand where you are coming from, there is a lot of DLC available and it does come across as a lot of content missing/restricted. but the game has more than enough to do without the DLC. having played through the first half of the game, I can honestly say that I don't feel short changed by the content yet. I may feel differently once I have completed the game, who knows.

MeddlE · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:55

rjkoneill said:
obviously there is no WRC pc game so there is still nothing for the purists

WRC 2011 is due out in October published by Ubisoft. WRC 2010 was released last year although it appears to have sunk without trace.

rjk · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:09

MeddlE said:
WRC 2011 is due out in October published by Ubisoft. WRC 2010 was released last year although it appears to have sunk without trace.

the wrc game from last year was diabolical. i played it on my ps3 and got rid straight away.

the fact that ubisoft are developing it means it will be prone to all the other ubisoft related rubbish.
they may as well make it GFWL whilst they are at it

Supervast · 5 Jul 2011 at 11:05

I agree albert, its a complete rip of what codemasters have done, they pumped out half a game with the other half sitting ready to go on DLC, 30-40 quid for a game plus another 22 quid for the DLC's that should have been in the game in the first place.

MeddlE · 5 Jul 2011 at 11:30

rjkoneill said:
the wrc game from last year was diabolical. i played it on my ps3 and got rid straight away.

the fact that ubisoft are developing it means it will be prone to all the other ubisoft related rubbish.
they may as well make it GFWL whilst they are at it

Ubisoft are publishing, developer hasn't been announced although this late in the day you'd expect it to be the same one that developed 2010.