I don't say that lightly. Dirt has been one of my favourite franchises of all time, but I did express my concerns about the drop off this series has gone through in my Platinum Difficulty review with it's latest instalment.
DLC can often bring about an opportunity for titles to redeem themselves, but the Energy pack raises more questions than it does solve the flaws of the main game.
Here's the summarisation of what you get in one sentence. A total of 4 new cars, 25 new career events and a sense of confusion that the audacity to slap a price on this even existed in the first place.
There are no new tracks or environments, nor any new race types or modes. It's essentially just an extension of the main career you've already been through if you have acquired the Platinum trophy. The only new additions are a couple of new cars added to the existing catalogue. It's so uninspired and shows no desire to put in any level of reasonable effort to offer something genuinely exciting to the player. As a long-standing Dirt fan, it really is disappointing to see such a lack of passion towards producing exciting content for a game that dropped the standards of the series.
In regards to the trophies, there are 5 on offer here, which mostly span across the handful of new career events you have available to progress through.
The main goal is the "Extra Energy" trophy, awarded for earning all 75 stamps available in Energy. This spans across the 25 new careers events. In the main game's list, Stamps for events were awarded for in-race objectives, and there was no pressure to actually win the event. Within this DLC pack, Stamps are now awarded for placement in races, so this time round, you will need to win all 25 events in order to collect all 75 stamps. This is a big change in comparison to the main game.
However, even on Hard difficulty, it's still fairly easy to win races. A small handful of events took a couple of tries at worst, but the majority I found could be beaten on the first attempt.
You'll unlock the other trophies as you progress towards earning all 75 stamps, and the only trophy you'll potentially need to go out of your way for is the "Full Charge" trophy, awarded for Driving 30 miles in the Porsche Taycan. For me, this was just a matter of replaying a Sprint event over multiple times until I reached 30 miles. A fitting trophy for a piece of generally uninspired content.
You can unlock all 5 trophies within 4-5 hours. It's just a shame that is feels very shoehorned. Even the trophy tile artwork is duplicated, which is essentially the cherry on top.
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