I'm not going to compare this to prior DiRT series games, I think that's been done enough. As a standalone game, DIRT 5 doesn't necessarily do anything bad, but it also does nothing really good or unique. It's pretty bare-bones, just pick an event, a car, and then race. There's no upgrades, no team management. No gimmicks or features to stand out from any other racer. The different car classes didn't really change the game all that much, and neither did some of the event types (after 20 hours, I still don't know the difference between Stampede and Land Rush events). As I 100%'ed the base game's campaign -- 125 events in total -- it became very grating as it just went on and on, the races all feeling very samey; I don't think I have the patience to even start the extra 100 events the DLC all together add to that. Unless an incredibly simple, straight-forward racer is what you like, I wouldn't recommend this.

I'm not going to compare this to prior DiRT series games, I think that's been done enough. As a standalone game, DIRT 5 doesn't necessarily do anything bad, but it also does nothing really good or unique. It's pretty bare-bones, just pick an event, a car, and then race. There's no upgrades, no team management. No gimmicks or features to stand out from any other racer. The different car classes didn't really change the game all that much, and neither did some of the event types (after 20 hours, I still don't know the difference between Stampede and Land Rush events). As I 100%'ed the base game's campaign -- 125 events in total -- it became very grating as it just went on and on, the races all feeling very samey; I don't think I have the patience to even start the extra 100 events the DLC all together add to that. Unless an incredibly simple, straight-forward racer is what you like, I wouldn't recommend this.