DX11 Dirt 2 is ‘best-looking racing game ever’

PC gamers will ‘see the superiority of DX11’, says Codies.

DirectX 11 has enabled UK game maker Codemasters to create the ‘the best-looking racing game that has ever existed’, with the PC version of Colin McRae: Dirt 2.

While the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Colin McRae: Dirt 2 are due out on September 11, the PC version was officially delayed to this December to make the most of DirectX 11’s release in October.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at a recent event in London, game design manager Ralph Fulton said DX11 made the delay worthwhile.

“Without going into a graphical feature list, which I'm probably not best equipped to do at the moment, I can say that you will really see the superiority of DX11 in terms of the graphical fidelity it offers.

“And that was a decision we took, to delay the PC version, to take advantage of DX11, purely because we weighed it up and said, look, what it allows us to do is make the best-looking racing game that has ever existed. Not just of the year or on PC, but has ever existed, because we were the first with an already cutting-edge game to take advantage of this technology, so it would definitely be worth putting it back.”

Head over to our recent hands-on preview of the game to see why Colin McRae: Dirt 2 should be on every racing fan’s radar.

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