Colin McRae Rally 2007

"Once you've snapped out of the trance that DiRT's fantastic presentation tends to lull you into, you might remember that this is a racing game and that you do actually have to play it."

DiRT, the latest addition to the "Colin McRae Rally" series from Codemasters, manages to pull off the balance between realism and accessibility perfectly.

"Colin McRae is set to steal us away from our groomed F1 tracks, our desert-rave mud-pit races and our perfect street races... again. "

"Built entirely from the ground-up, DIRT is a completely next-generation take on the series and Codemasters has literally rebuilt every bit of the experience from scratch to take full advantage of the systems. "

"DiRT is one of the coolest racing games I have ever laid my hands on. Though the framerate is sometimes suspect, there's never been a racing game with this much detail."