I have played the game for like an hour or so, and here is my initial impression. I mainly bought Dirt 3 because of dissatisfaction with EA's Shift 2 for not bringing the DLC to PC. I want those classic cars.

The game looks awesome. It's probably the most beautiful Codemaster Racing game ever. The water droplets on the car, that vibrate on the surface as you drive. The beautiful Kenya landscape that is in the game, where it is one of the most beautiful environment i ever seen in a game. The damage have also improved a lot, with more realistic dents and parts coming off when you crash.

The driving physics, well, Dirt 3's cars still feel pretty unique from each other, but not as good as how Shift 2 did. There are still a lot of distinctive difference between cars, like a Group B rally car would handle a bit different from today's rally cars. Sound wise is also very very good. The car classes are varied, but the amount of cars in each class is a bit lacking which is only like 2 to 5 cars per class, which is a bit disappointing. Overall, i guess the game does have pretty decent amount of cars. Also, Rally have taken a huge chunk of the car list, which is like 30. If you are looking for Rally Cross or Dirt 1's lol worthy dump truck, you'll be disappointed. However, if you wanted more Rally content, you would love DiRT 3 a lot.

What i dont really like is, the game feels like it is lacking of some content, or something is just missing from the game. The amount of content in the game isnt as much as say, GRID or Dirt 2.

I would still recommend this game a lot, with my initial impression. It would be a great game to play along with Shift 2, as they both cover different racing disciples.

will dirt 3 only be released in steam or is it available already in retail?

hahaha need 2 wait few days 4 retail i guess

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will dirt3 in our region or will not?

IINM, anything tat use GFWL, basically would not include our region "Malaysia", so u gotta get from DD.
n i notice tat recent games tat use GFWL, din bring in to our soil
awaiting 50% for this game....after few mths sure got discount  

I hope not in STEAM and Retail. 

Fixed for you

@Cheesenium
is the rally longer, better n more maps than dirt 2?
i like dirt 2, but too bad d rally track is juz too few 

Finally a game that we can Lepas Geram from all the Glitches in SHIFT 2 
I hope in STEAM and Retail. 
Harap2 ASAP 

I cant say much yet, but as far as i know initially, the tracks are rather short. 2 to 3 miles only.

The whole game is pretty much filled with Rally.

Gameplay still same like DiRT 2?

Yeap. It's the same.

dirt3 - more smooth then dirt2 ,.,