{"id":24891,"date":"2012-05-05T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=24891"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:50:09","slug":"dirt-showdown-is-destruction-derby-for-a-new-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dirt-showdown-is-destruction-derby-for-a-new-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"DiRT Showdown is Destruction Derby for a new generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24895\" title=\"DiRT Showdown\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/dirty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"139\" \/>Codemaster&#8217;s have excellent pedigree for racing games, and with <a href=\"http:\/\/dirt-showdown.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>DiRT Showdown<\/strong><\/a>, they&#8217;ve resurrected the ghost of 1995&#8217;s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Destruction_Derby_%28series%29#Destruction_Derby_Arenas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destruction Derby<\/a>. You can play the <a href=\"http:\/\/dirt-showdown.en.softonic.com\/\">demo<\/a> now on Windows via <a href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\">Steam<\/a>, which features one race and a multiplayer arena event.<\/p>\n<p>DiRT Showdown comes out 24th May and as well as the derby events featuring fictional old bangers, there will be Gymkhana events like those seen in DiRT 3. I&#8217;m not sure if these will fit with the rough and tumble of the derby events, but we already know how much fun they are.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some gameplay from the multiplayer mode &#8216;Rampage&#8217; after the break below &#8211; it&#8217;s a demo and still need some polishing, but you&#8217;ll see how much fun it is. I think DiRT Showdown could be the multiplayer racing game of the year:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codemaster&#8217;s have excellent pedigree for racing games, and with DiRT Showdown, they&#8217;ve resurrected the ghost of 1995&#8217;s classic Destruction Derby. You can play the demo now on Windows via Steam, which features one race and a multiplayer arena event. DiRT Showdown comes out 24th May and as well as the derby events featuring fictional old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dirt-showdown-is-destruction-derby-for-a-new-generation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DiRT Showdown is Destruction Derby for a new generation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-24891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333824,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891\/revisions\/333824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24891"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=24891"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=24891"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=24891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}