Nobody will be walking into the living room and mistaking Dirt 5 as a real-life Motorsport Rally. Such sights are such good eye candy that I’ve often been distracted for a second too long and ended up crashing into the back of rivals.īut it’s the unnaturally colourful style of Dirt 5 that makes such sights stand out rather than the realistic graphical fidelity. Mud will flick up off the road as you spin your wheels through the jungle tracks, while the neon lights are reflected back into the glassy white ice road of the New York track, both resulting in stunning visual effects.Ĭodemasters has also done some stunning work on the background scenery, with Nepal giving you the towering Himalayas to ogle, while driving through the Norway tracks at night can see the gorgeous Aurora Borealis illuminate the road. In fact, on both consoles I was impressed by the finer details.

But do these improvements boast the wow factor as Forza Motorsport 5 did when debuting on the Xbox One? Not really. I can confirm there’s a substantial improvement between the two consoles, with the Series S seeing brightly coloured environments afforded more vibrancy and the muddy roads displaying finer detail. I was able to play through Dirt 5 in its entirety on Xbox Series S, using the Xbox One S as a compari son for the generational leap.

However, with Codemasters opting for a cartoonish visual aesthetic over the realistic graphics typically found with racers, it may not be the spectacular showcase that prospective PS5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S fans were hoping for. This means visuals appear significantly smoother when speeding around a tight bend or racing with several other vehicles on one screen. In a similar vein, Dirt 5 has become the first racer to introduce variable refresh rates to consoles, allowing you to whack the frame rate up to a dizzying 120fps if you own the compatible hardware. Dirt 5 has found itself to be the sole racer in the next-gen lineup for the PS5 and Xbox Series X, with the genre renowned for showcasing the graphical horsepower of new consoles.įrom Ridge Racer on the PS1 to Forza Motorsport 5 on Xbox One, racers have historically taken advantage of new hardware by introduce jaw-dropping features such as 3D graphics and photorealistic visuals.

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