A demo of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 is now available to sample on the PC.

In the demo, players are able to get their hands on two events: “Trailblazer”, a time-check event set in Morocco, driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, and “Landrush”, an eight vehicle head-to-head at the Ensedena Port circuit in Baja, California, driving the West Coast Choppers Stuka TT.

Gameplanet is hosting the demo, which you can download here.

 

In the lead-up to the release of DiRT 2, releasing on September 17th, Codemasters is inviting fans to express themselves artistically in the new flash game “DiRTy Tats”.

Players can practice their tattoo artistry on an actress looking to bring some extra attention to her “assets.” You can select your tool, design and colours, and tattoo whatever design you like.

Head over to the DiRTy Tats website and give it a try.

 

Colin McRae: DiRT revolutionised the racing genre.

With some never-before-seen damage modelling it was highly acclaimed, even though it did leave sim fans sitting rather high and dry. So it's with some anticipation that we booted up our Colin McRae: DiRT 2 preview code, especially after having seen some stunning screenshots recently.

DiRT 2 centres around the World Tour mode, which will take the player around the world through a range of different events. DiRT 2 seems to separate itself even more from traditional rally, catering more to a wider off-road market. This is painful for many traditional fans of the game, as Colin McRae titles used to be the pinnacle of rally, and now rally really has just become a small part of a much larger title. The packaging of the career though, along with the menus is done amazingly in a full 3D environment, which looks incredible. The range of game modes as mentioned is vast, with many modes having been in the original DiRT, but the few new ones really stand out.

 

Codemasters have announced that Colin McRae: DiRT 2, the next chapter in the racing game series, will be shipping on September 8th in North America and the UK on September 11th.

Powered by the third-generation of the EGO Engine, Colin McRae: DiRT 2 will be published for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP. As previously reported, a Games For Windows LIVE edition will follow later this year with support for DirectX 11.

For more information, check out the official site.

 

Codemasters today announced that the Games For Windows LIVE edition of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 will support new performance enhancing features that will be available in DirectX 11.

With DirectX 11 hardware expected to ship in the second half of 2009, and DirectX 11 coming to home computers with the release of Microsoft Windows 7 on October 22, 2009, Codemasters also announced that the Games For Windows LIVE edition will benefit from an extended development program to take advantage of DirectX 11 and is now scheduled to be published in December 2009.

“While the console editions of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 will retain their September ship date, we believe that the DirectX 11 feature set is too compelling to ignore, especially considering how much more it can add to the visual experience for PC gamers,” said Bryan Marshall, chief technical officer, Codemasters.