{"id":92,"date":"2007-05-25T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/dirt-demo-review\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T19:52:00","slug":"dirt-demo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/dirt-demo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DiRT Demo Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/media.teamxbox.com\/games\/ss\/1464\/1180027656.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.teamxbox.com\/games\/ss\/1464\/1180027656.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not sure why I thought I should try the demo for DiRT.  After trying the Forza 2 demo I was very quickly reminded of how badly I suck at racing games.  I gave the DiRT demo a try anyway and found that I&#8217;m better at it than I am at Forza 2.  I can at least make it around the track&#8230;on the easiest setting at least.  I tried all three of the available cars and found that I stink with all of them.  The game itself looks great, but I was a little disappointed with how little my car would get dammaged when I run it into a wall.  Yes, there was some damage to both the car and the many obstacles I hit, but with all the times I hit stuff going full speed my car should have wrecked long before I got through the two laps.  Maybe it was because I suck at racing games, but to me it felt like the cars were really light.  I&#8217;d try to slide around a corner and end up spinning 270 degrees; even if I just tap the hand brake. Oh well, at least I don&#8217;t have to try and make time for racing games in my busy schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I thought I should try the demo for DiRT. After trying the Forza 2 demo I was very quickly reminded of how badly I suck at racing games. I gave the DiRT demo a try anyway and found that I&#8217;m better at it than I am at Forza 2. I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,5],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}