Driving cleanly, setting good lap times, keeping to the racing line, and achieving high speeds are all factors that add to the driver’s experience earned during the race. Players will continue to earn experience not only from completing races, but also performing certain actions on the track. The dual-experience system has been thankfully ditched in favor of a single driver XP progression. Events range from drift, to time attack, to regular lap races across the similar set of tracks from the previous game. Players are still able to progress through the events at their own pace, with the ability to play races that are unlocked in any order. Not alot has changed in the career mode of the game. It gives the game at least a little more personality to grab on to, compared to Shift where a faceless instructor was instructing the player before each race. At least this time around, there are real world drives who help guide you along (as in Dirt 2), and actually have live action movies instructing you on the events. The narrative is still thin, providing little reason to advance from one race to the next except for making money and earning XP.

Much like the original, players are once again tasked with starting their career as a pro race driver and working their way to the top, through various tiers and competition disciplines, in hopes of reaching the World Cup.

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