I was fairly critical of the Energy pack for it's lack of new content, and whilst the Super Size pack doesn't exactly drastically alter the course of this, it at least made Dirt 5 feel a little bit fresher.
Since the Energy pack, and bearing in mind this is actually the third piece of DLC in the timeline, the game has finally included some new track variants and event types to tackle them on.
Time Trial, Gatecrasher and Smash Attack are all newly added event types. Time Trial has you racing ghost variants in an attempt to better their lap times. Gatecrasher has you negotiating a course through a set number of gates to the finish line. Smash Attack has you destroying a certain number of objects within an allotted amount of time. Simple but a much needed injection of freshness.
The package also adds 4 new "Super Sized" vehicles to race, as well as a few new tracks. There are 2 different variants in Brazil added and the Nevada arena is a completely new setting altogether.
There are 5 new trophies to tackle, and these follow the exact same path to progression as before.
The extension to the Career mode sees the addition of 27 new events. This is 2 more than any other pack, and contains a decent mix of the new elements mentioned above. The new event types are well represented across the 27 events, as well as a balanced array of the old favourites, and you'll also get your chance to race at the new track variants a few times too.
Progressing towards the "Main Course" trophy, awarded for Earning all 81 stamps available in Super Size career, is the main goal, and as before, stamps are simply awarded for winning races, with each event being designated 3 stamps for crossing the line in first place. You'll need to win the event to unlock all 3 stamps, and the variance in challenge feels exactly the same as it did in the Energy pack - Most events can be won fairly easily, with the odd one that may give a slightly greater degree of challenge.
You'll unlock the other trophies as you progress towards the main event, with the "Travelling in Style" trophy, awarded for Driving 30 miles in the Bentley Continental GT Ice Race Car, as the only outlier. You can actually use this vehicle in a few of the career Time Trial events, so it's easy to just repeatedly lap one of these until the trophy pops.
Full package completion is around 4-5 hours in length. Could be quicker if you're not precious about an artificially heightened challenge like myself, who opted to stick to the hard difficulty setting.
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