Games

Guide to the games of 2017;

It is said that you only get one chance to make a first impression. Capturing an audience in the first scene of a film, the reader in the opening sentences of a book. For a reviewer — and gamer in general — that first play session with a new title is often as important. It can be indicative of the direction of the review. 

Headlines are written, taglines are formed, and general thoughts are gathered. At the end of my first session with DiRT 4, there was only one thought, "They are going to love this." Over 20 hours later, ears having been battered again by a cacophony of engine noise, rattles and stone chips assaulting the car and the odd pine tree seemingly jumping out from nowhere. Despite a recently healed broken wrist feeling all but broken again, that thought remains unchanged — "they are really going to love this" — because with Dirt 4, Codemasters has created a rally game for all players, inexperienced gamer or sim racer. No one is left out. 

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