Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
Legendary British game developer whose career spanned a 20 year period and included groundbreaking simulations of Formula Three and Formula One, including arguably the first ever racing sim: Revs (1984).
Most famous for his Grand Prix series that were published under the MicroProse label until 2000, his career unceremoniously ended when his studio was shut down by Infogrames and the Xbox version of Grand Prix 4 cancelled just prior to release.
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With the recently announced new title the team is working on, Codemasters today pushed out what is probably the second-to-last patch for DiRT Rally 2.0 (1.15 will be released late 2020).
This update includes a number of good quality of life changes.
Content:
Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 – Made “Petter Solberg – 2019 Wales Rally” livery available to all players.
Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 – Made “Oliver Solberg – 2019 Wales Rally” livery available to all players.
Mitsubishi Space Star R5 – Made “Festive Livery – Wandering Star” livery available to all players.
Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 – Made “Festive Livery – Merry Cosworth” livery available to all players.Cars:
Ford Escort RS Cosworth – Updated engine audio based on new recordings of real car.
DS Automobiles DS 21 – Resolved issue where rear-view mirror view was inverted.
SUBARU Legacy RS – Improved lighting of instrument cluster.
SUBARU WRX STI NR4 – Changed transmission type in menus to Manual (Previously Manual Sequential).
SUBARU Impreza 1995 – Resolved issue where exhaust would clip through bodywork after sustaining damage.
SUBARU Impreza S4 Rally – Adjusted gear change animation.
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X – Adjusted gear change animation.
Resolved issue where multiple rallycross cars were missing a texture on front left window.Locations:
Perth & Kinross, Scotland – Adjusted co-driver volume levels.
Perth & Kinross, Scotland – Made some adjustments to co-driver calls in French language.
Hawkes Bay, New Zealand – Made some adjustments to co-driver calls.Colin McRae Scenarios (difficulty):
The following Scenarios have had their difficulty adjusted based on player data to provide a smoother difficulty curve:Scotland 1988 – Slightly easier.
Wales 1988 – Slightly easier.
Sweden 1989 – Slightly easier.
New Zealand 1989 – Slightly easier.
Scotland 1991 – Slightly easier.
Scotland 1992 – Slightly easier.
Greece 1994 – Eased damage criteria for passing Scenario.
New Zealand 1994 – Slightly harder.
Australia 1995 – Slightly harder.
Wales 1995 – Slightly harder.
Argentina 1998 – Slightly harder.
Germany 2002 – Slightly harder.
Scotland 2004 – Slightly easier.
Australia 2005 – Slightly harder.
Scotland 2006 – Eased damage criteria for passing Scenario.Colin McRae Scenarios (miscellaneous):
Refined grammar on several Scenario descriptions and objectives.
Resolved issue where some retired AI times were appearing incorrectly in Scenarios.
Added missing Rival icon to specific AI drivers in some specific Scenarios.
Adjusted mechanical damage criteria so that bodywork damage doesn’t affect pass/failure of relevant Scenarios.Achievements:
If in doubt… – Improved unlocking logic.
…Flat out – Improved unlocking logic.Rallycross:
Resolved issue where race wouldn’t restart if AI driver jumped the start of a race.
Adjusted AI driver allocations so that they would now appear in the correct FIA World Rallycross Championship year.UI/UX:
Added post-Stage notes for drivers who retired from a Rally.My Team:
Resolved issue where some players could not access DLC cars they had purchased/owned in-game.Miscellaneous:
Corrected several team colours in Service Areas to match livery colour on player’s car.
Resolved issue where menu music would play for a split-second when a player Restarted a Stage.
Resolved issue where some players would lose access to cars in their Garage after resetting their profile.
Adjusted PlayStation Store link in Japanese versions of the game to go to the correct page.
Made minor bug-fixes throughout title.
Made minor stability improvements throughout title.
DR2 is a racing video game developed and published by Codemasters featuring a mixture of Rally and Rallycross content from both historic and modern era.
The game may be considered the thirteenth title in the Colin McRae Rally series, and is the seventh title to carry the Dirt name. The publisher confusingly released DiRT Rally, DiRT 4 then Dirt Rally 2.0 all with a similar concept and content between 2015 and 2019.