What can I say other than i'm incredibly disappointed with Dirt and Snow
. However, my main complaint about Dirt and Snow is not the AI, but the near disappearance of Dirt and Snow tracks as well as their neglect
GT4 was the last time Dirt and Snow was properly implemented and well done. Under the Special Conditions section, there were events for all 7 Dirt and Snow Tracks, as well as 3 city ones and a wet version of Tsukuba:
Dirt & Snow
- Cathedral Rocks Trail I (Used sections of the El Capitan Track, which has also disappeared
)
- Cathedral Rocks Trail II
- Chamonix
- Grand Canyon
- Ice Arena
- Swiss Alps
- Tahiti Maze
City Courses
- Citta di Aria
- Costa di Amalfi
- George V Paris
You had to race on each track six times-three times forward and three times backward-and raced for 2 laps, 3 laps and 5 laps respectively and competed against rally base model cars, modern WRC cars, Group B cars, even LMPs on the road tracks. There were also driving missions and several license tests devoted to dirt driving...
Also, although GT3 had fewer Dirt and Snow tracks, such as Smokey Mountain and Tahiti Circuit, there was a requirement to complete a rally license before doing the events (I forgot how the events were composed. I believe though that it was similar to GT4). GT2 had a section of Pikes' Peak (also, Red Bull leaked an article about Pikes' Peak being in GT5, which never happened) and GTPSP had all of the GT4 tracks plus another version of Cathedral Rocks: Trail III.
Unfortunately, GT5 ditched all of that, and brought the Dirt and Snow track count back down to 3 (along with one dirt and one snow course maker theme). On top of that, compared to the 7 tracks x 6=42 events you did in GT4, there was not one single event offline besides the special events-which were the WRC special event, which used Course Maker generated themes (that were not used in any other event), the Sebastian Loeb Rally Challenge special event and one race within the Grand Tour special event (bear in mind I don't include the Seasonal events in my argument)
Similarly, GT6 only had one race event devoted to Dirt and Snow-although we'll have to wait and see about three things:
- The Course Maker: If there are any Dirt and Snow themes
- DLC: If any Dirt and Snow themes are offered
- Sebastian Loeb (spoiler alert
): In the ending credits under celebrity voice actors, it mentions Sebastian Vettel along with Sebastian Loeb
One of the only improvements was the weather and day/night transitions as well as the increased number of (slow) opponents. Other than that I'm very disappointed with Dirt and Snow in both GT5 and GT6
. I hope that their DLC plans include bringing back at least a few of these tracks as well as including more course maker themes (once added), adding more snow tracks (as the old Charamoix, the new Charamoix and Ice Arena are the only Snow circuits in the GT Franchise in comparison to 9 Dirt circuits), and maybe taking advantage of the snowing Nurburgring glitch by adding it as a weather variation.
PLEASE BRING THESE OLD TRACKS BACK PD!
rant over...
not a bit of sideways amongst the lot of 'em!
plus my Scoobie had one of those sun shields that blocks off the upper third of the windscreen...
