Rally purists look away now. This is DiRT as you perhaps hoped it would never be. Shorn of all its off-road pursuits and repackaged as a balls-to-the-wall spin-off that capitalises on the extreme elements of its recent predecessors, this is DiRT Showdown and it's super gnarly. To the max.

Bringing chaos and destruction to the franchise, Codemasters is firmly in the driving seat for the first game on its newly formed Codemasters Racing label, with fireworks, crashing and oodles of globetrotting glitz and glamour. It's brash alright, but has DiRT Showdown got it where it counts?

Read our definitive DiRT Showdown review to find out.