Overview
Dirt Showdown represents a shift in gear for the Dirt franchise, leaning towards the arcade action of Destruction Derby or FlatOut. There are three components to Showdown's gameplay: speed, style and destruction. Speed is covered by the race events, style by the Hoonigan events (previously known as Gymkhana events), and destruction by 8 player Destruction Derby-esque arena battles. Showdown's handling is more forgiving than Dirt 3's, in an effort to attract newcomers. Showdown's presentation returns to Dirt 2's, with lasers, fireworks and hordes of spectators screaming over the now-customary dubstep soundtrack.
Dirt Showdown is the first title to be released under the Codemasters Racing label, and the first title to use Codemasters' RaceNet functionality - a cross-game online platform similar to Rockstar's Social Club.
Showdown is not intended to be a replacement for Dirt 4, but rather a new arcade take on the franchise - in a similar vein to Forza Horizon's development alongside an inevitable Forza 5.
The game was later released by Sega for arcades in 2015 as Showdown.
Music
The game features a 46-strong dubstep and rock heavy soundtrack:
| Artist | Song Name & Featured Artists |
|---|
| A Loss For Words | The Hammers Fall |
| Black Spiders | Cold Dead Hands |
| Blokhe4d | Hexagon |
| Blokhe4d | GHOST IN A VAN V1 |
| Breakage | Fighting Fire (Loadstar Remix) |
| Byob | One Way Road |
| Camo & Krooked | Watch It Burn (Instrumental) |
| Canterbury | Ready Yet |
| Danny Byrd | Sweet Harmony |
| Dot Rotten | Are You Not Entertained |
| Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux | Mother of Girl |
| Equalizers | Wide Awake |
| Far Too Loud | Play it loud |
| Far Too Loud | We Want to Dance |
| Felguk | The Funky Drama (FTampa Mix) |
| Freestylers | Cracks (Ctrl-Z Remix) |
| Grand Magus | At Midnight they'll get wise |
| Kids in Glasshouses | Animals (Hadouken Remix) |
| Kudu | Let's Finish (Sinden Remix) |
| LostAlone | Do You Get What You Pray For |
| Lower Than Atlantis | If The World Was To End |
| Malleefresh | Intuition (Darth & Vader Mix) |
| Max Raptor | The King Is Dead |
| Neelix | Disco Decay (Felguk Mix) |
| Nero | Me & You (Dirtyphonics Remix) |
| Nero | Innocence (Feed Me Remix) |
| Reckless Love | Speedin' |
| Rise Against | Help Is On the Way |
| Rise Against | Architects |
| Rival Sons | Get What's Coming |
| Rubicon Cross | Locked and Loaded Ruff V1 |
| Scott Nixon | The March |
| Skryptcha | Runnin' Away |
| South Central | Japan |
| Stanton Warriors | Shoot Me Down |
| Templeton Pek | Signs |
| Templeton Pek | Call To Disarm |
| The Answer | Piece by Piece |
| The Parlor Mob | Into The Sun |
| The Qemists | Take It Back featuring Enter Shikari |
| The Treatment | Departed |
| The Treatment | The Doctor |
| The Treatment | Shake The Mountain |
| Turbowolf | Rose for the Crows |
| We Are The Ocean | Trouble Is Temporary, Time is Tonic |
| Wolfgang Gartner | Illmerica (Radio Edit) |
PC System Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
- Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 or Intel Pentium D @3.2Ghz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: • Graphics: AMD HD2000 Series, Nvidia 8000 Series, Intel HD Graphics 2500, AMD Fusion A4
- Supported Graphics Cards: AMD HD2000 Series, HD3000 Series, HD4000 Series, HD5000 Series, HD6000 Series, HD7000 Series; Nvidia GeForce 8000 Series, 9000 Series, GTX200 Series, GTX400 Series, GTX500 Series
- DirectX®: 11
- Hard Drive: 15 GB HD space
- Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
- Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection
Recommended:
- OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7 64 bit
- Processor: AMD Bulldozer or Intel Core i7
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD HD5870 or Nvidia GeForce 470GTX
- DirectX®: 11
- Hard Drive:15 GB HD space
- Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
- Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
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