DiRT 4

Last good Dirt game. Good luck buying them anymore since EA is removing all older games so people are forced to purchase the latest one even though they are trash

This is the first time I ever played DiRT 4, so bare with me. The career mode is interesting, because there are team management aspects, where you have to hire members to your team, manage your sponsors and upgrade your facility which gives some good change in the gameplay. Driving felt a bit off at first, I can't really describe why but I didn't have much fun with it for the first time, but I got the hang of it and it's a pretty decent driving model, not the best but not the worst either. Sounds are good and soundtrack is surprisingly on point as well, there are some weird track choices but fits the game and the atmosphere perfectly. Rally tracks are alright and the additional game modes are fine too. Graphics for 2017 look good too. The game tries to please simulator enjoyers and arcade players with the different ways to adjust difficult and driving style, which is a good addition.
If you compare this game to Dirt Rally (which came a year before Dirt 4), you might feel sour about it and think it's a backwards direction on the series, which is understandable to think if you like simulators. Car model here could have been like in Dirt Rally or the progression could have been different indeed. Also, later career tracks the game gets difficult all of the sudden and in some cases I can't really understand the physics at certain sections, like how I lose so much time compared to the AI. Not even mentioning the grind like career mode, especially from the middle part.
If you try your best to understand the game and give it a chance, I'm pretty sure it can be fun to play. There are certain aspects which make it hard to like, but I do enjoy my time with this. I can recommend getting this game, however finding a key for around 10€ max (which I think the amount would be fine for Dirt 4) is close to impossible, otherwise you should skip it, doesn't worth that much overpay.

During an intense fog, my co-driver said to go hard left so I did exactly as instructed - turns out the track actually went right and I ended up in a tree
10/10

This game comfortably calculated the worth of a human life, and it's a 4 second penalty...

Well worth for the thrill of the kill

My favorite of the Dirt games, and indeed my favorite Dirt rally racing game all together.
Good physics, and the levels/stages/rounds are randomly generated each time you drive, ensuring you don't get too comfortable and just start memorizing the courses.

The best DiRT game. DiRT 5 is some cartoony unrealistic fairy tale compared to this game.
Shame you can't buy it anymore and shame that they didn't release all the DLCs if they ditched it like that...

Kinda pointless to write a review considering you can't even buy this anymore, but it has the Quattro S1, so it's automatically 10/10
Since I'm bored, I might as well update my review after more or less completing the main campaign. The game is fine, it's a nice mix of both realism and arcade racing.
You probably won't play this game for more than around 30 hours (unless you're me and you still find it fun to go through the same corner you've already went through four times in the same stage), because the tracks are procedurally generated and lack any real uniqueness. Once you're about mid-way through the campaign, no track or corner will ever surprise you, because you've already seen them all.
The AI is incredibly inconsitent and it doesn't actually "race" with you, the times of your opponents are calculated based on the already pretty janky track generation. You can win some stages by literal minutes, but others can be downright impossible on the higher difficulties.
Another thing I hate is the lack of customization, as you get almost zero options for the many vehicles' livery. They bothered to put in the Lancia 037, but you can't put the absolutely legendary "Martini Racing" livery on it? Just kind of sad. It doesn't help that modding support basically doesn't exist.
One feature that stands out is the Team management as it is pretty in-depth and cool to mess around with.
Overall, I would recommend it as I've had a lot of fun with this game, just don't expect anything revolutionary. It is kind of hard to get now that it isn't on Steam anymore and keysites are either charging the original release price (around 50€) or they're just blatant scams *cough* G2A *cough* but the game is simple enough to obtain through other means.