Codemasters have posted the first work-in-progress gameplay footage taken from DiRT Showdown, an aracde-ish spin off of the DiRT franchise.
The Nevada 8 Ball trailer is set in the sun baked Nevada desert and features a variety vehicles jostling for position whilst making jumps and smashing into each other.
‘Pyrotechnics, lasers and thousands of fans give each venue a vibrant sports entertainment atmosphere, with the player taking centre stage,’ say Codemasters.
The game will feature – woohoo! – split-screen multiplayer! Plus eight-player online racing, on and off-line quick-fire party games and YouTube integration and will hit the shelves this May.
Source: YouTube
Tomhlord
Provided a rally focussed Dirt game & Grid 2 haven’t been shelved (which there is no indication of) and this is very clearly a spin-off that has been developed alongside and not in lieu of, then I will not write it off just yet. Very reminiscent of Destruction Derby so looks like mindless fun for multiplayer, less fun for anyone called JamboGT ;)
tonyyeb
This.
Lol
cc_star
Destruction Derby meets Motorstorm, what’s not to like.
wasn’t interested in anything dirt related, am now.
Blayney
Give me GRID 2 instead
RudeAwakening
Class reminds me of destruction derby!
AshGraham99
I’m still interested. It might not be exactly what i want from codies but at least its now sepearte from the proper stuff. I ignored all the online party stuff from Dirt3, just wanted to race cars and not fart around with them.
freezebug2
It’s basically what The Run is to the NFS franchise, just a gap filler really, and it will probably end up being a PSN title for £70 :P
HeliosCM
Just to clarify a few things!
Alongside DiRT Showdown which as you might have gathered is a more arcade style offering, there will also be a future rally focused title from the Codemasters racing studio.
Finally, we all know how popular GRID was with the community and I can confirm we have a GRID 2 planned for the future :)