DiRT Rally 2.0 - Year One Pass + Colin McRae: FLAT OUT Pack (DLC)

I've spent a lot of time watching rally games try to have it both ways - arcade thrills with a sim veneer - and DiRT Rally 2.0 never falls for that trap. It is a proper, unforgiving rally simulator, and the Year One Pass bundles every post-launch season alongside the Colin McRae: FLAT OUT Pack, making this the most content-complete version of the game short of the full GOTY edition. The 24 additional cars span genuine rally history - the Citroen C4 Rally, Lancia 037, BMW M1 Procar, Peugeot 208 WRX - and the 11 new track locations push the stage count from "enough" to "genuinely substantial." Seasons 3 and 4 alone add Finland and Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina Circuit for Rallycross, which fills in gaps that early adopters were loudly vocal about. The centerpiece is the FLAT OUT Pack, and it earns its reputation. Forty scenarios retrace Colin McRae's career from 1984 through 2006, starting in a Mini Cooper S and working up through the Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500, the Subaru Legacy RS, and finally the Impreza S4 Rally - the car that was on the original Colin McRae Rally box cover. Scotland's Perth and Kinross provides 12 new stages, and they are good ones: fast, narrow, punishing on the exits. The scenario structure is clever too. Specific moments from McRae's real-world race history become in-game objectives, so you are not just time-trialing, you are recreating a damaged-car run from Wales in 1988 or chasing a stage win in New Zealand. It gives the DLC a narrative texture that most racing add-ons skip entirely. The honest criticism, and it is fair: a large chunk of the 40 FLAT OUT scenarios run on stages borrowed from DiRT Rally 1, DiRT Rally 2.0's base game, and even DiRT 4. If you have been playing Codemasters rally games since the beginning, some of this terrain will feel like a repeat tour. The 12 Scottish stages are genuinely new and genuinely excellent, which makes the recycled content slightly frustrating by contrast. For someone coming in fresh, or picking this up after a sale, none of that reuse registers as a problem - you just have a massive amount of rally to get through. The base game itself sits at 89 percent positive across nearly fifty thousand Steam reviews and an 84 on Metacritic, and those numbers hold. The vehicle handling remains among the best in any rally game, with a physics model that demands real commitment from the driver and pays it back with satisfaction when a stage clicks into place. Wheel and pedal setups are well supported, and the game can push telemetry data to SimHub and motion platforms if your setup runs that deep. Career mode does require an internet connection, which is worth knowing up front. Who should buy this pass: anyone who already owns the base game and wants everything, or a new buyer who knows they are going to sink serious hours into career and custom championships. Casual or passing racing fans are better served by something with less of a learning curve - this package does not soften the sim at all. But if the base game already had you replaying stages to shave two seconds off a split, the Year One Pass is the straightforward way to double your mileage.

Alex · Scout Team

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