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DiRT 3

Get ready for DiRT 3! Race through the snow, rain and dirt and experience dramatic night races with the most amount of rally content in the series yet.

User reviews: Mostly Positive (2,922 reviews)

Release Date: 23 May, 2011

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"Possibly the best MP racing game on Steam. Certainly the one we've enjoyed most."

About This Game

Get ready for DiRT 3! Race through the snow, rain and dirt and experience dramatic night races with the most amount of rally content in the series yet.
Express yourself in the stunning new Gymkhana mode, inspired by Ken Block’s incredible freestyle driving event, and upload your best runs direct to YouTube! Compete in iconic rally cars representing 50 years of the sport, from the classic Audi Quattro to the 2011 Ford Fiesta WRC, and take on all game modes in split-screen and competitive online multiplayer. Competing as a professional rally star you’ll enjoy intense racing across three continents – from the forests of Michigan to the infamous roads of Finland and the national parks of Kenya.
Powered by Codemasters’ award-winning EGO Engine, DiRT 3 features Flashback to rewind time and genre-leading damage. DiRT 3 is the ultimate off-road racer

System Requirements

Minimum

OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 2.8GHz, Intel Pentium® D 2.8Ghz
Memory: 2GB
Hard Disk Space: 15GB
Video Card: AMD Radeon™ HD 2000 256MB, NVIDIA® GeForce® 8000 Series 256MB
DirectX®: DirectX® 9
Sound: DirectX® compatible soundcard

Recommended Specifications: Enhanced for DirectX 11

OS: Windows Vista® or Windows® 7
Processor:AMD Phenom™ II or Intel® Core™ i7
Memory: 3GB
Hard Disk Space: 15GB
Video Card: AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
DirectX®: DirectX® 11
Sound: DirectX® compatible soundcard

© 2010 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ("Codemasters"). All rights reserved. "Codemasters"®, “EGO”®, the Codemasters logo and “DiRT”® are registered trademarks owned by Codemasters. “DiRT 3”™ is a trademark of Codemasters. All other copyrights or trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are being used under license. Developed and published by Codemasters.

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451 products in account

Not Recommended

10.5 hrs on record

Posted: 2 August

In 2013 Codmasters promised they would ditch GFWL (Games for Windows Live). Here we are in mid 2014 and nothing has been done. This is the BEST DiRT game. PERIOD. The problem is many people can't save their games. Outside of that many people would love to purchase the DLC and finish the game. Until Codemasters makes good on their promise none of that can happen and the game is essentially worthless. We've seen Codemasters release and update DiRT Showdown, GRiD Autosport, and Colin McRae Remastered but yet DiRT 3 remains untouched!!!

Codemasters says they are listening to the community. Well, I have created an unofficial "petition". Click thumbs up to tell Codemasters that we are holding them to their promise and we want to see an update.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=284771981

Regretfully until I see an update to this game I cannot recommend it on any level.

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76 products in account

Not Recommended

6.3 hrs on record

Posted: 30 October

Games for Windows Live totally ruined this game. You have to be logged in to xbox live to be able to save your game, and it tells you that you are NOT logged in (EVEN IF YOU ARE) nd therefore, you cannot save your progress. Minus 10/10 rating thanks to Microsoft.

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45 products in account

Not Recommended

3.0 hrs on record

Posted: 24 October

This game on its own is really nice, but... windows live...

...games for windows live...

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174 products in account

Not Recommended

1.5 hrs on record

Posted: 27 August

I can't even play it thanks to Micro$oft's GFWL.
Even Hitler couldn't come up with something as evil as Games For Windows Live.

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170 products in account

Not Recommended

8.2 hrs on record

Posted: 12 October

GAMES FOR WINDOWS LIFE

Thats all you need to know for my review. Codemasters said they would remove it a year ago.

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77 products in account

Not Recommended

10.5 hrs on record

Posted: 5 November

Do not buy DiRT 3 until GFWL (Games For Windows - Live) is removed. It has essentially made the game unplayable with the latest update, or something. One day I could sign-in and play, the next I couldn't due to a network error; I manually opened the required ports and set up custom rules for GFWL to try and get the network connectivity back, but eventually gave up after an hour or so of messing around with settings and stuff.

GFWL aside, DiRT 3 is/was an awesome game, would recommend - if I could sign on.

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122 products in account

Not Recommended

2.6 hrs on record

Posted: 28 October

The game will not let you save SINGLE PLAYER progress without signing up for two accounts with MS. No thanks.

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86 products in account

Not Recommended

0.6 hrs on record

Posted: 7 November

Even AFTER all the Games for Windows Live gripes (which I had dealt with before and thought I could handle), I bought the game on sale... Only to find out that me paying the money for the game wasn't enough... I get to the second set of races, and I can only play 6 out of 7 of the races because, guess what, Windows Live expected me to BUY the last race. Not only that, but I can't use whatever sponsers I earn by coming in first place because Windows Live expected you to BUY that, too.

So... Basically, you sold me 3/4 of a game and expect me to buy the rest by not allowing me to play what I thought I had already purchased? ♥♥♥♥ you, you greedy ♥♥♥♥ing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥s.

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127 products in account

Not Recommended

9.5 hrs on record

Posted: 21 December

DiRT 3: 10/10

DiRT 3 with GFWL: 0/10

Steam pls remove GFWL.

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112 products in account

Not Recommended

15.6 hrs on record

Posted: 5 September

WARNING - This is still dependant on GFWL which has been shut down by Microsoft. Therefore, you cannot save your progress in anyway as of this writing (and the past year by the sound of it). There is a way to create an offline profile but it too fails. Multiplayer needed GFWL and therefore is also gone. All you can do are single races with the handful of cars that are unlocked from the start.

Do.Not.Buy.

UPDATE: After multiple attempts and making an Xbox account of all things, I now have a profile that works. I still cannot get any of the DLC cars from the LIVE store. Not even the free car pack. Which sucks because it has the 1995 STi in it. The whole GFWL thing is still a Byzantine maze of painful obfuscation and Codies really needs to address this.

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451 products in account

Not Recommended

21.0 hrs on record

Posted: 18 December

"We're removing games for windows live!

...

eventually..."

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106 products in account

Not Recommended

0.2 hrs on record

Posted: 5 December

DO NOT BUY UNTIL YOU SEE GFWL REMOVED.

CODEMASTERS HAS BEEN "WORKING" ON REMOVING IT SINCE JANUARY 30.

YEP, ALMOST A YEAR.

MEANWHILE THEY PROCEED TO PUT IT ON SALE AND PROMISING IT WILL BE FIXED "SOON"

YEAH, RIGHT.

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179 products in account

Not Recommended

6.7 hrs on record

Posted: 20 October

This game requires GFWL whiuch is no longer supported. This means you can no longer save your game. This makes the game broken. There is a workaround (see link) that allows somepeople to continue to play the game, but this is not something that you as a customer should be required to do.

If you can be bothered to jump through the hoops to get the game to work the game is fun a satisfying rally game. But unitil the GFWL has been stripped from the game I cannot reccomend it.

Workround:

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-other-devices/windows/troubleshoot-games-for-windows-live-connection#f3ff1237b30440e3a52a1f2386eb5f68

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76 products in account

Not Recommended

0.2 hrs on record

Posted: 14 December

Get rid of GFWL, it is a load of crap. It takes a stupid amount of time to make an account, and not to mention you have absolutely no choice or else you can't save any progress.

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20 products in account

Not Recommended

14.0 hrs on record

Posted: 7 November

Although the game play and features of this game are terrific; there are short comings that screw it over like a streetwalker who accepts competitor's coupons.

The Direct X bug... or at least, running it in full screen causing random crashes... while loading... while in the menus, but more frustratingly (and more commonly) while racing. This is unacceptable. One should not have to force DX9 or run in window mode to play this.

The long awaited removal of GFWL... Get rid of it. Just do it. Stop dangling the carrot and do it. Thanks to the buggy garbage this is it has corrupted yet another saved profile. The last time at 120+ saved races it wrecked a profile. Out of boredom and reinstalling thankfully it only corrupted a profile with 2 saved races. That served as an ample reminder of why this is a waste of space and time on this gamer's computer.

Great game, if it would ever work properly.

Better luck with Dirt 4...

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10 products in account

Not Recommended

5.1 hrs on record

Posted: 14 October

GFWL (Games for windows live) Stops you from even saving this game. Its been 1 year and its still not removed. This game is pointless untill they fix this

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Ol' Melanski [2098]

65 products in account

Not Recommended

0.5 hrs on record

Posted: 12 October

Seriously, read the other reviews. GFWL makes me want to punch people really hard in the face.

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152 products in account

Not Recommended

0.7 hrs on record

Posted: 10 October

This game has GFWL. If it gets removed, I'll play the game and edit my review.

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23 products in account

Not Recommended

18.8 hrs on record

Posted: 8 October

Most cars are locked and the only way to unlock them is to BUY them. And even if you want to buy them (which I tried to do with the peugeot 205 gti) you cant, because the in game market doesnt work.
There are no maps, meaning you will have to play a track over 10 times just so that you can remember the patterns...
Multiplayer is hard to set up, even an account which is required in order to save your progress is even harder to set up.
The game is dead, and it should stay dead.

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352 products in account

Not Recommended

5.2 hrs on record

Posted: 29 December

How does this game have a "Mostly Positive" Rating when you can't even save your progress & unlocked cars?

I love this game to death but GFWL ruins it, the developers promised in January 2014 that they'll remove it, yet nothing has happened so far.

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Title: DiRT 3
Genre: Racing, Simulation, Sports
Developer: Codemasters Racing Studio
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: 23 May, 2011

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