DiRT Rally 2.0: Colin McRae - Flat Out Pack Review (Voodoochile)
Amazing tribute to the most fearless rally driver of all times.
However, Scotland has a few issues:
The location
Design is very poor and borderline infuriating. it's not the difficulty from the tight roads, it's the roadside objects that they went overboard with. On some sections there are literally rocks or logs on the road it self. Co-driver gives you a "no-cut" warning but little do you know, the rocks are actually covering the road it self and their "hitbox" is HUGE, shooting you in the grass where the next trap awaits - waist high baby pines which magically stop and damage your car from 150 to 0km/h in an instant. Absolutely comical stuff. First time I even backed up and drove them over a second time to make sure it's wasn't something else I missed.
Going of the road even slightly you are met with ditches that flip your car, logs hidden in the mud that flip your car or the tiny pines on the grass which you can't even spot as they blend with the bushes. All of this artificially makes the track more challenging than it actually is, so much so that you start wondering if the stages would cover FIA regulations on what is considered safe for rallying.
The performance
This is the only location with terrible frame timing and micro-stuttering (at least on my machine). The only fix is to limit the FPS far lower than what my monitor and system are capable of, making this stage extra unpleasant in contrast to the rest of the game.
The AI
Most inconsistent AI of all locations. I am currently playing on Elite difficulty. On other locations I am pushing top 3 consistently. Here the AI is either 20 seconds ahead of me when I stay perfectly on track or I do a barrel-roll and still finish first.
Bottom line: I recommend this for the 2 Subaru's alone. The location is just a non-remarkable frustrating version of Wales.