Platinum Difficulty Rating - 7/10 As with the previous DiRT game, the Single Player trophies are mostly emphasised around the World Tour mode, with the vast majority of the trophies on this list all awarded for completing races and challenges throughout the main story.
The "From DiRT to Glory" trophy, awarded for achieving first place finishes in all DiRT Tour events, is the most difficult trophy in this list, and although there are nowhere near the same amount of events in the World tour in comparison to DiRT 2, it's still a lengthy journey that will definitely test your driving skills to the maximum, particularly into the latter stages of the game.
You can expect to beat the Tour mode in around 25-30 hours, though achieving a first place finish in every event, along with the Platinum medals in the Tour challenges, you can expect alot of replay value which will add anywhere between 5-10 hours onto the overall timescale. Some of these events will guarantee multiple attempts, especially the multi-tiered championship series in the latter stages of the game, and given the fact most of these are about 30 minutes in length, you'll want to beat them with as few retries as possible.
Most of the other trophies attached to the Single Player portion of this list will be unlocked along the way to winning every event, and there is a heavy slant of progression injected into the list.
The "Platinum Performance" trophy, awarded for achieving Platinum medals in all DC challenges, requires you to beat the top target time for all 26 DC challenges scattered throughout the World Tour, and although most of them can be beaten within a couple of attempts, there are a few that can be incredibly frustrating, and will require alot of practice to understand the best routes in order to beat the Platinum times.
The "Cool Running" trophy, awarded for beating the Bobsleigh in the Norway Speed Run DC challenge, is actually one of these challenges, and turns out to be one of the hardest individual trophies in the list. It will require complete perfection of the route and has absolutely no margin for error.
Sticking with the theme of Platinum medals, the "Teacher's Pet" trophy, awarded for achieving a Platinum medal in all of the Gymkhana Academy tutorials, is the exact same deal as the DC challenges, and again, even though most of the tutorials are easy enough to obtain a Platinum medal in, there are a couple where you'll need to practice heavily in order to achieve a high enough score to meet the Platinum criteria.
Away from the DiRT Tour mode, the "Battered Battersea" trophy, awarded for completing 100% of the Battersea compound missions, is centered around a free mode where you drive around a selection of open areas completing various challenges, and this trophy requires you to beat every single one of these challenges. They vary extremely, involving jumps, performing powerslides and also include collecting a bunch of hidden packages, and although there's only a few that are genuinely challenging, they add about 3-4 extra hours onto the overall list.
There are also a small handful of Multiplayer trophies in this list, but there is arguably one that stands way above the rest, and ends up being the sole focus of this list, regarding the online game modes.
The "Super Star" trophy, awarded for earning enough fans to achieve the Superstar title, which effectively requires you to reach Rank 35 online, and is one of the longest online grinds in any game available to date. It takes a fanbase of 250,000 to reach the title of Superstar, and you'll probably average around 500-700 fans per race, which means you'll mostly like be playing in excess of 250 races to hit Rank 35. It's also worth noting that this game has some horrible continuity between races, and lobby loading times are seriously long, which is definitely something that exasperates the grindy element of this trophy.
You'll probably spend around 30-40 hours trying to achieve this trophy, and it ends up working out to about half of the overall time of this list, which is a big ratio for an individual trophy across an entire list.
The only other trophy that's really worth mentioning is the "Honourable Driver" trophy, awarded for completing an online Multiplayer race with a 'Cautious' rating, requires you to race clean for a consistent length of time. Your rating will either rise or drop based on your conduct during races, and if you're constantly aggressive, your rating will plummet and make this trophy harder to achieve, so it's best to just be careful for 4/5 races in order to steadily boost your driver rating but the longer you go with a bad rating, the more races you'll need to complete cleanly in order to move yourself back up to 'Cautious' so you have to make sure it doesn't slip away from you too much.
Along with the sizeable element of skill required, you're looking at around 60-80 hours to Platinum this game. It's a list packed with trophies that will require you to get the very most out of the game, and you'll need to beat practically everything on offer to achieve the Platinum trophy, which combines a genuine challenge along with a solid time commitment.
Notable Trophies -
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| From DiRT to Glory - Achieve first place finishes in all DiRT Tour events Platinum Performance - Achieve Platinum medals in all of the DC Challenges Cool Running - Beat the Bobsleigh in the Norway Speed Run DC Challenge Teacher's Pet - Achieve a Platinum medal in all of the Gymkhana Academy tutorials Super Star - Earn enough fans to achieve the Superstar title |
From DiRT to Glory
Achieve first place finishes in all DiRT Tour events
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