Why Gravel is Better Than DIRT 5

After being let down by DIRT 5, I hesitantly tried out Gravel. It's a game inspired by the DiRT series, and it actually surpasses DIRT 5 in many ways, despise being made with a lower budget. This video dives into why I feel Gravel is a much better game than DIRT 5

Sections
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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Presentation
2:33 - Race Courses
4:29 - Vehicle Physics
6:31 - Ending

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Music
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Spiked - Simon Painte
Pushing the Chains - Thomas Hirschmann
Steel Hammer - Pierre Gerwig Lagner

[Otherface]

Gravel is by far one of the most underrated racing games ever.

[rodracer]

Seeing how good Gravel is and the fact it was on sale for about the same amount of money as a bag of fruit gummies, it was a no-brainer for me 😎

[shona]

Gravel was £1.59 on the store, so i bought it.. and it's safe to say, it's the most fun I've had on an arcade racing game sice Dirt 3.

[qasderfful]

I think that it's the first time I've heard of Gravel and WHY IS IT THE FIRST TIME I'VE HEARD OF GRAVEL?!

[Abel_Unstable]

Know Gravel for quite sometime but I was hesitant. But watching this makes me wanna get it. Also, Milestone defeats Codemaster? Holy !

[tropixx_xlr]

I enjoy DiRT 5 for what it is as it reminded me of Gravel, but I honestly will say that Gravel is a lot better! Gravel's graphics are nice, and the gameplay is solid, only thing it lacks is vehicle customization, I would have been happy with just, more paint jobs and accessories. In terms of Car Variety, Gravel wins by far, going as far as including unorthodox vehicles like the Armored Operation DLC is one of the most interesting additions ever. Milestone, please greenlight Gravel 2, it has SOOO much potential for being a straightforward off-road racer focusing on pure racing fun! DiRT 5 was probably mistaken upon as being another successor to DiRT 4, but I can understand why it changed because of DiRT 4's commercial failure, to take the series in a new direction. It's a disappointment how DiRT 5 didn't include replays after the race.

[VincentDeLuca]

Gravel is so underrated. I got it around the time it came out, when I was looking for something new to play, and I came across it on the Xbox store. I highly recommend it over the complete disappointment of Dirt 5.

[andrewpoints]

Great video. I put a fair bit of time into Dirt 5 as it was free for PS5 on PS Plus. I had some fun with it but the issues didnt take long to appear. Gravel on the other hand has been amazing, one of my favourite racing games in recent years. I've blitzed through every career race/DLC. Loved every second.

[Artificeral]

Great video! I've always felt Gravel doesn't get enough credit for feeling like a good Dirt 2 follow up. It has the same attitude, fun vehicle physics, and unique track design!

[danspencer]

Dirt 3 and 4 were very different games, but both worth experiencing still. I just don't like the looks of Dirt 5 and I'm glad I discovered Gravel, because I needed more variety!

[magnuskevinsen]

Totally agree. Got platinum in both games, Gravel is a much better experience and even feature some of the legendary group S cars and the legendary Estering track which is in the same town that I live in and next week I'm gonna go there to watch!

[RCR]

After today i bought Gravel. I cannot wait to play. I love Simcade rally games and the cars and vistas look superb. Special edition is 2.48 on PS Store

[christianwurm]

Dirt 2 and 3 were so great. Dirt 5 shouldnt be called „Dirt“

[mountveggie]

Great job, you’ve just sold a copy of gravel - just purchased it after watching your video and looking forward to trying it out!

[philipford]

Dirt 5 wins in the graphics department - no contest. Some of those tracks looks absolutely stunning - an unforgivable tragedy that Codemasters refused - yes, refused despite countless requests from players - to include a camera replay mode (despite clearly having built one in, as can be seen in the immediate after-race menu display; it's just never made accessible to the user).

Gravel is a perfectly competent racer with a nice variety of good-looking tracks (bolstered by a strong DLC line-up), but it never quite reaches the visual beauty of Dirt 5.

Both games illustrate how frustrating things can get for the racing fan. Each has major plus points; each is undermined by baffling, often frustrating flaws. I honestly can't decide which of the two is 'better' in any meaningful way.

[dylansandoval]

I found out about this game around launch with the demo on xbox. I thought it played decently but didn't pick it up until years later. I bought a Logitech wheel and shifter and started getting more racing games to play. This ended up being one of my favorites to use with a wheel and just about have fun. This is also considering I had played a bit of dirt 5 but got bored so quickly and thought the car list was so lackluster compared to Gravel. Truly an underrated racing title

[luxerhusku]

Gravel and Dirt 5 both are fun to play but Gravel has the better selection of cars in my opinion. Overall, I feel that both games are really good but Gravel's got a very Sega Rally vibe to me that I had been missing for a long time. But Dirt 5 is the most active of the two and is still very fun to play to this day.

[JVC]

I got both and enjoy them but if I only could keep 1 it have to Gravel. I glad I go it on day 1 with all of it DLC even the army cars feel different and the location are perfect. Don't forget Gravel has real world tracks even if the Speedcross (Rallycross) don't have the Joker Lane to the tracks!

[citizenx]

i never liked racing games until i met Dirt 5. What a game, it looks and feels so amazing

[starshape]

1:20 meanwhile Dirt 2 managed to make very conving conversions of cars that never even hit the dirt. I was shocked when I first played the game and discovered the Eclipse was never a rally car. Not to mention the Rallycross and Trailblazer versions which I'm pretty sure we're enterly fictional on every car, but still no less convincing.

The SUV's fared well too, even the most stock looking ones (like the hummer hx concept) were modified in a manner that a manufacturer would go about doing it for promotion, keeping it as close looking to stock as possible (kinda like how Ford did with the Raptor they used for the baja 1000)