Colin McRae Rally and more recently; Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Colin McRae Rally and Dirt 2 have since been developed and published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.
Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. The series is named after the World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae, who provided technical advice during development.
Despite McRae’s death in September 2007, Codemasters retained the use of his name on their rally games until the release of Dirt 3, where the moniker was dropped.
Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. The series is named after the World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae, who provided technical advice during development.
Despite McRae’s death in September 2007, Codemasters retained the use of his name on their rally games until the release of Dirt 3, where the moniker was dropped.
Colin McRae Rally features the car and track list from last year’s top selling mobile title and features THIRTY amazing rally stages in three environments taken from the PlayStation classic Colin McRae 2.0. for this PC and Mac edition. With a combined distance of over 130km, go flat out through the dirt and the dust of the Australian outback, take on dramatic climbs through the mountains of Greece and get sideways on the tight and twisty roads of Corsica.
Get behind the wheel of four legendary rally cars, the Subaru Impreza, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI, Lancia Stratos and Colin McRae’s Ford Focus. Pace notes read by professional rally co-driver Nicky Grist help you fully commit through each and every stage.
Feel the thrill of putting pedal to metal across different surface types and blast through beautiful, challenging environments. Race with a range of pads, including Xbox 360 and PS3 controllers.
Take on different game modes including quick races, full rallies and Championships, post your best time to the leaderboards and unlock achievements.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Pentium III or Athlon equivalent | Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2200+ |
| CPU SPEED | 1 GHz | 2 Ghz |
| VRAM | 64 MB | 128 MB |
| RAM | 256 MB | 512 MB |
| OS | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (NT & 95 not supported) | Windows 2000/XP |
| Graphics Card | 64 MB 3D video card (NVIDIA GeForce 3/Radeon 8500 or better) | nVidia GeForce 7300 GT / AMD Radeon 9600 Series |
| Direct X | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | Required (Sounds best with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 series) |
| HDD Space | 3 GB | 3 GB |
| CD-ROM | 2X DVD-ROM | 2X DVD-ROM |
| Game Analysis | The 2005 installation of the McRae franchise has over 70 stages spread over nine countries: Australia (loose gravel), Japan (tarmac), Finland (gravel), Greece (rough rocky gravel), UK (tarmac, mud, and gravel), Spain (smooth tarmac), USA (gravel/dusty tarmac), Sweden (snow and ice), and newcomer Germany (abrasive tarmac/light gravel). There are over 30 cars available, including Ford Focus WRC '01, Subaru Impreza WRX Sti '04 (which is featured on the front cover), Citroën Xsara WRC '04, Peugeot 206 WRC2003, and Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VIII (8). There is also a revised graphics / damage engine that enables paint scratches on the car, and a new 'career' mode where the player starts out in the lower club leagues and works their way up to compete with Colin McRae in his 2004 Dakar Rally Nissan Pick-Up. In 'Championship' mode the player competes as Colin himself competing in 6 Rallies using any 4WD car. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Note | Supported Graphics Cards ATi Radeon 8xxx, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, X800pro GeForce 3, GeForce 4 (not MX), Geforce FX 5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950, 6800 | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
