Recent reviews by Calyx

As much as I want to love this game, I cannot, and I cannot recommend it to anyone.
Pre-ordered because it was cheaper, which was nice, and it came with 5 VIP passes.

We are heading in to season 3 tomorrow, february 13th, and I have been unable to claim most of the rewards from season 1 or 2 due to the simple fact that the game wasn't very playable until the 1.5 patch about a week ago.
Performance is finally -okay- but still has many issues. For example turning on headlights drops your fps by a solid 20% and introduces microstuttering. Very nice when it's pitch black. Bloom/brightness reflections still come from the road surface, not from any actual light sources. None of this makes up for the fact that graphically it looks inferior to DiRT Rally 2.0, meaning poor performance for worse graphics is a really, really bad trade-off. This is due to reflections and mirrors needing to be turned off if you want to play this game. Turning these graphics settings up even slightly will break the game. You'll experience insane stuttering, tearing, and low fps in general.

It could have been a good game, but honestly, I just fell for slick advertising and a very long, promising build-up towards release, of which i'd like to blame a few notable YouTubers like JimmyBroadbent for never talking about any of the negatives and praising this game in to high heaven.

tl;dr overhyped, underdelivered, graphically not a step up from DiRT Rally 2.0 but with way worse performance. Lackluster campaign, 2x 6$ VIP passes that went to waste due to unplayability. 5/10 very mediocre.

Pretty good, 47/10

This game ruined my life.

11/10

10/10

One of the best series ever made!