Dirt 3 - 5/24/11

[Pikarya]

I have a RL friend who works at codies, sadly his last game was red river trololololol.

Hearing mixed reviews, initial reaction good, prolonged reaction not that much content?

Depends what you mean on long term content.

Online can be extremely fun, my personal favorite is team vs. team Transporter (Capture the flag). On the DC Compound it requires a decent amount of skill to shine.

With Cat & Mouse, it also comes down to team work and playing with friends. You need 1-2 people blocking the opponents mouse, along with 1-2 people fighting off cats on the other team to prevent them from messing with your mouse.

As for Zombie mode, its extremely hard vs. good drivers. I've seen some amazing people pull off some wins. I think I've only did it once doing cheap tricks in tight/narrow passages to get out alive lol.

Then you have Gymkhana, where you can go online and compete vs. other drivers which is great (if you're into that thing.)

Buggy racing seems to be really popular, since the cars are identical for stadium spec so everything is fair game.

Either way, I'm sure there will be DLC cars & maps down the road. Not sure thought if Codemasters has anything officially planned.

[*Shinzon*]

Well, content is going to be limited by it's nature. But in my case, I loved the Gt5 rally races and wanted more. This kinda fills that void for now. Something to keep me busy when I'm bored at any rate. I wont try to over play it and maybe work on it slowly. It has DLC content so maybe stuff in the future?

[Pikarya]

Well, content is going to be limited by it's nature. But in my case, I loved the Gt5 rally races and wanted more. This kinda fills that void for now. Something to keep me busy when I'm bored at any rate. I wont try to over play it and maybe work on it slowly. It has DLC content so maybe stuff in the future?

I would think so. It seems they went with the whole Gamestop cockblock route this time to lower the games used resell value with the "VIP codes". On my pre order I got an extra code for some extra cars but I didn't throughly read what it was all about.

Anyways yeah, I'm sure we'll see something crop up in the near future. I would love to see some of the classic cars they didn't add which didn't get the cut for launch to pop up.

[Pikarya]

Little late but tons of DLC on the way confirmed.

http://www.codemasters.com/press/upl...3newsthumb.jpg

http://www.codemasters.com/news/inde...warticle=13348

Today Codemasters® announced that the Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack is available for DiRT® 3™ from Xbox Live Marketplace and Games For Windows Marketplace for 160MSP; all profits from the sale of this download content pack are being donated to the Colin McRae Vision Charity.

The Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack features a Ford Escort Mk II, the iconic 1970s Rally car made famous by Colin McRae, plus five liveries. The pack marks the first in a series of weekly downloadable content that will become available for DiRT 3, featuring new cars and tracks. Information about the content and release date for forthcoming DLC will be made available at twitter.com/dirt3game and facebook.com/dirt3game.

To mark the launch of the Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack, Codemasters today released the final DiRT 3 developer diary. The video features DiRT 3 technical consultants Ken Block and Kris Meeke, WRC driver Mikko Hirovonen and key development staff recalling their own memories of the late, great Colin McRae. Viewers are also taken behind the scenes at Battersea Power Station, which was turned into a real life level from DiRT 3 for Ken Block’s latest Gymkhana driving video – DiRT 3 Battersea. The developer diary is now playing at youtube.com/dirt3game.

DiRT 3 is out now for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC Games For Windows® LIVE.
ENDS
Notes to editors:

• The Colin McRae Vision Charity Pack for PLAYSTATION 3 will become available pending the resolution of issues affecting the PLAYSTATION Network. The pack will be priced at £1.19 / €1.49 / $ 1.99.

• Further announcements about the availability of DLC for the PLAYSTATION 3 will be made at twitter.com/dirt3game and facebook.com/dirt3game

• The Colin McRae Vision Charity was established to honour Colin’s name and achievements and raise funds for charitable and worthwhile causes. Details on their activities and how they make a difference for good causes in regions throughout the world which were close to Colin’s heart can be found at colinmcrae.com/.

[Gryffes]

Good/bad/still playing/etc?

[Pikarya]

Depends on what you mean by good/bad. I know some people that still play Gears/Halo 3 like it never got old (did for me n_n).

Depends on what you like I suppose.

[*Shinzon*]

Stephen Totilo — U.K.-based publisher video game Codemasters e-mailed its customers today to tell them that the publisher suffered a major online security breach one week ago.

The breach has exposed gamers' personal information, though Codemasters, the publisher of the recent Dirt 3 and Operation Flashpoint: Red River says payment information was not obtained.

"Unfortunately, Codemasters is the latest victim in on-going targeted attacks against numerous game companies," the company said in an e-mail to customers today. "We assure you that we are doing everything within our legal means to track down the perpetrators and take action to the full extent of the law."

In their e-mail to its customers, the company detailed the types of information that was accessed. "We believe the following have been compromised: Customer names and addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted passwords and order history. Please note that no personal payment information was stored with Codemasters as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion. "

The publisher says that, "on Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any further intrusion."

The hacker gained access to the Codemasters.com website, the web page used to redeem VIP codes for the recently-released racing game Dirt 3, the Codemasters Estore and the database for the publisher's online fan club CodeM.

The CodeM part of the breach has exposed the following: "Members' names, usernames, screen names, email addresses, date of birth, encrypted passwords, newsletter preferences, any biographies entered by users, details of last site activity, IP addresses and Xbox Live Gamertags are all believed to have been compromised. Whilst we do not have confirmation that any of this data was actually downloaded onto an external device, we have to assume that, as access was gained, all of these details were compromised and/or stolen.

Apologizing for the incident, the company recommended that users change their passwords and says anyone with concerns should send an e-mail to [email protected].

Codemasters has taken its website offline, redirecting it to its Facebook page. It says a "new website will launch later this year."

Those wondering if they were affected in the breach should look for an e-mail from Codemasters. The publisher is saying that they're "contacting all customers who may have been affected directly."

If you had entered your personal information, it's been obtained.

[Nitsuki]

If you had entered your personal information, it's been obtained.

Thank god i didn't bother w/ anything online. Lolol

[*Shinzon*]

All I did was activate my code, but yeah I didn't enter anything important lol. I didn't see a reason to.

[Pikarya]

Doesn't affect Youtube login information for replays. All I entered was the code for VIP so I'm in the clear.

[aurik]

Still playing this game.

So it's been well worth the purchase price.

Anyone picking up the game used and wanna buy my vip code for $5?

[Pikarya]

New DLC cars are out.

Monte Carlo Track pack comes out next.