Dirt Rally review – an authentic and rewarding new era for rally sims

Codemasters has been making rally games since the original PlayStation era, but it is now closer than ever to perfecting its craft

There have always been racing games that sell themselves on numbers. The dozens of circuits, the vast atlases of exotic locations, the garages crammed with authentically detailed vehicles. Other titles, meanwhile, push their glitzier production values; the lush menu systems, the licensed soundtracks, the trackside pizazz.

The excellence of Dirt Rally, though, lies not in breadth, but in depth.