The equivalent of hitting the lottery for a die-hard race game fan may just be the 2007 lineup of Xbox 360 moto titles. Forza Motorsport 2 has the tarmac twisters covered, NASCAR 08 is shaping up to satisfy the left-turn experts, and the latest additions to the Need for Speed, Burnout and FlatOut franchises will surely have arcade racers in a tizzy.

Even though the famed Rallisport series is nowhere to be found in 2007 (or any year thereafter, at this point), off-road mongers should fear not. Racing-game guru Codemasters decided to go big in ’07 with DiRT; a semi-continuation of the long-running Colin McRae Rally series.

With Colin out trying his hand in other facets of off-road driving, and with Codemasters wanting to expand the scope of its racing series, it only seemed fitting to shake things up a bit, starting with the title’s name. It doesn’t get much simpler or more appropriate than DiRT; this is, after all, a game dedicated to almost every aspect of four-wheeled off-road racing.