Colin McRae: DIRT Preview - PlayStation 3

If you like your driving games, really like them, then you'll be waiting with barely contained excitement for the arrival of Colin McRae: DIRT on the PlayStation 3. Not long to wait now - it'll be out in August - but in the meantime, check out our mega Colin McRae preview. We've had a play and we can tell you about the cars, the tracks, and how it all looks on the PlayStation 3. But don't just take our word for it - we've got multimedia content so you can see clips of in-game action. Download the new issue of P3Zine to read the Colin McRae: DIRT preview now! Click here to read the Colin McRae: DIRT preview for PlayStation 3!

Colin McRae: DIRT Preview for PlayStation 3
Rally games have always suffered from a suffocating adherence to rules and real life physics. Like real world rallying, there was always a timer, a forest and zero competitors as you went head to head with a previous high score at the top right of the screen. Colin McRae: Dirt throws all of this out of the window, along with the co-driver, track map and any sense of civilised sportsmanship.
Cars, bikes, trucks and skeletal beach buggies race round tracks so fiendishly designed, you’d think the devil had melted his Scalextric set and created roller coasters for suicidal speedsters. Following the mud splattered tracks of MotorStorm, Colin McRae: DIRT races towards the classic PS3 debut with such force, it might just barge the fun but limited racer off the track altogether. It’s like the developers of Colin McRae have ditched their history teacher outfits, forgotten about real physics and fallen in love with the Burnout series while pissed.
There’s little to complain about. Stuffed with the kind of visuals that have teased PS3 owners in the downloadable Gran Turismo HD demo, the tarmac tremors with the weight of gorgeous vehicles. There are 40 cars to choose from, ranging from trucks without cabs, to the traditional Subarus and then on to cars which look so ugly and American, they’re best described as four wheel drive refrigerators. But don’t let that put you off – get all the weird and wonderful cars on the track and it’s like a fantasy Mad Max sequel.

P3Zine is the world's first free PlayStation 3 magazine. Written by the best PS3 journalists from the UK, it offers free PS3 previews, reviews and developer interviews. It's your ultimate PlayStation 3 resource. The third issue has a massive previews section of the hottest games coming up on the PlayStation 3. This month we have a huge Colin McRae: DIRT hands-on preview, including a full and frank interview with Colin McRae producer Alex Grimbley of Codemasters. Also in previews, we've looked at The Darkness, Stuntman: Ignition and Dark Sector. In reviews, we've been playing the biggest release of the moment - Spider-Man 3: read our review to see how we rate it. And check out our new section for PlayStation 2 reviews, our PlayStation 3 community section, news, letters, opinion and much more. And it's all enhanced with video multimedia. Just click to download the full magazine now and you can read it and all the other articles too.