New cars, track variant, tutorials & career option being added for DiRT Rally console release

New cars, track variant, tutorials & career option being added for DiRT Rally console release
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The PS4 and Xbox One versions of DiRT Rally will feature brand new content previously unseen in the PC release, Codemasters has revealed.

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Available at launch, the console versions will introduce a full gravel version of Pikes Peak, a series of video tutorials that aim to teach players the basics of driving a rally car, three new Colin McRae liveries and seven new cars:

  • Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak
  • Renault 5 Turbo
  • Renault Alpine A110
  • Opel Corsa Super 1600
  • Peugeot 207 S1600
  • Renault Clio S1600
  • Mini Classic Rallycross

A new option is also being added to the game’s Career mode that allows players to purchase a Rallycross car from the beginning, letting them head straight into Rallycross events should they prefer to do that from the start. Up until now, the PC version had forced players to head directly into Rally events.

PC owners won’t be missing out, though. In April, the PC version will be updated to include all of the content found in the console versions and – potentially – improvements to the game’s performance, too.

“The key thing is that everything we’re doing for this console version, any fixes that we’re finding because we’ve suddenly got a larger QA team working on multiple platforms, any improvements that we’re working to do with performance that can be brought back into the PC experience to make the PC game perform better, any content, like tutorials, new cars and tracks, they’re all going to be brought in with an update when the console version releases,” chief game designer Paul Coleman tells VideoGamer.com.

“So PC players will get complete parity with what the console players are getting. We’re not leaving them in the dark. It was really important for us to do that.”

Further updates are planned for the future, too, Coleman teases, although Codemasters has yet to reveal what they may include or when they’re due to roll out.

DiRT Rally’s day one ‘Legend Edition’, meanwhile, will feature a full-length documentary on the late rally champion Colin McRae. It isn’t yet clear whether that content will also be available on PC.

DiRT Rally launches on PS4 and Xbox One on April 5.