DiRT (Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

DiRT
Also known as: Colin McRae: DiRT Developer: Codemasters Publisher: Codemasters Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows Released in US: June 19, 2007 (Windows/360), September 11, 2007 (PS3) Released in EU: June 15, 2007 (Windows/360), September 14, 2007 (PS3) Released in AU: June 29, 2007 (Windows/360), September 27, 2007 (PS3) This game has unused sounds. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article

To do: There's definitely more to talk about than this. Talk about Hummer DiRT Experience

Initially a spin-off in the Colin McRae Rally series turned into a beast of its own. Featuring Travis Pastrana from the Race of Champions series and Christian, your fellow co-driver.

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Prototype Info

Unused Cars

In the /cars folder, there are 3 codenames for unused cars, namely cmp, sko and ply. All of them are empty except for ply, which has camera, suspension and performance data for the car, but no models, textures or anything to give an exact clue as to what it would've been.

Unused Audio

To do: There's a ton of commented lines in speech.xml. Making a separate subpage just for this extra narration is recommended.

Greeting Lines

These are lines that would play when you bootup the game. There's 5 of them with 2 of them being used and the rest being here, using early names for the game. These lines were also translated into other languages.

Demo Leftovers

To do: How many of these are actually used in the demo?

Judging by these sounds, the demo of the game was gonna be a lot more than just 3 races in a few disciplines. Some of these are used in the demo, but they still count as unused content due to them being left in the final game. Ones that aren't commented off in speech.xml are indicated with a star. (*)

Filename	File	Notes
1_01
1_02
1_03
bad01*
bad02*
bad03*
buy_car		Buying cars isn't possible in the demo.
buy_livery		All liveries are unlocked in the demo.
carsel_intro01*
carsel_intro02
carsel_intro03		Buying cars isn't possible in the demo.
car_viewer		Not in the demo nor the final game.
diffsel01*		The only selectable difficulties in the demo are Rookie and Amateur.
diffsel02*		The game sometimes refers to difficulties as "classes."
exit01*		Possible that there was gonna be a video preview instead of a release date for the game
exit02*
exit03*
exit04*
exit05*
good01*		Made it where?
good02*
good03*		Was probably gonna be used for when the player gets a podium finish.
nobuy_car		No need to buy cars...
nobuy_livery		...and liveries in the demo.
service01		Service area tutorial
serive02*		Some disciplines have this line along with an explanation of the chosen discipline.
welcome01*		European version.
welcome02
welcome03
welcome05*		Referred to as an "USalternative" to welcome01 in speech.xml

Version Differences

Following McRae's unfortunate death on September 15, 2007, Codemasters had to disassociate the DiRT franchise from McRae's name. This led to every subsequent release of the game simply being renamed to DiRT and every game after DiRT 2 not having Colin McRae's name in the title. Before this though, America already had the game be called that name. DiRT 2 was allowed to have Colin's name in the title because it was more of a memorial for him. And a damn good one at that.

The major differences in this version are the aforementioned different branding and Travis' narration being changed to accommodate the different title. The car select explanations for the 1995 Subaru Impreza, Colin McRae R4, Colin McRae MK. 2 Escort and the Nissan Pickup Dakar were changed. Same also went for any line mentioning Colin McRae. They were either made easier to understand for people that didn't know Colin or had his name removed from a line if it wasn't that needed.

In addition, the US release appears to be slightly easier, as the file ai/difficulty_settings.xml is set to lower AI difficulty by two points (on a scale of 100) across all difficulty levels when the game region string is set to "usa".

Before change/Europe	After change/North America

Unused Text

Contained within the game's English and French "languagedata" files is the following exchange from Act 1, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's "Much ado About Nothing". Bizarrely, at the end, it seems to contain a button prompt.:

  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:]
  I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon 
  comes this night to Messina. 
  
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off 
  when I left him. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:]  
  How many gentlemen have you lost in this action? 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  But few of any sort, and none of name. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:] 
  A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings 
  home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath 
  bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by 
  Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the 
  promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, 
  the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better 
  bettered expectation than you must expect of me to 
  tell you how. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:] 
  He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much 
  glad of it. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  I have already delivered him letters, and there 
  appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could 
  not show itself modest enough without a badge of 
  bitterness. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:] 
  Did he break out into tears? 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  In great measure. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:] 
  A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces 
  truer than those that are so washed. How much 
  better is it to weeat joy than to joy at weeping! 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the 
  wars or no? 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  I know none of that name, lady: there was none such 
  in the army of any sort. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:] 
  What is he that you ask for, niece? 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Hero[m:]  
  My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged 
  Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading 
  the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged 
  him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he 
  killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath 
  he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:] 
  Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much; 
  but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  He hath done good service, lady, in these wars. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: 
  he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an 
  excellent stomach. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  And a good soldier too, lady. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord? 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all 
  honourable virtues. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man: 
  but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:] 
  You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a 
  kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: 
  they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit 
  between them. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last 
  conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and 
  now is the whole man governed with one: so that if 
  he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him 
  bear it for a difference between himself and his 
  horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, 
  to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his 
  companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  Is't possible? 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as 
  the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the 
  next block. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray 
  you, who is his companion? Is there no young 
  squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil? 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he 
  is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker 
  runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if 
  he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a 
  thousand pound ere a' be cured. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  I will hold friends with you, lady. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  Do, good friend. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Leonato[m:]  
  You will never run mad, niece. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Beatrice[m:]  
  No, not till a hot January. 
   
  [p] [m:actor]Messenger[m:]  
  Don Pedro is [o:controller_icons.xbox_a] approached.