In addition, during rally events, a co-driver is present, constantly reading pacenotes to guide the driver along narrow and meandering tracks of up to 6 km in length. Usually involving staggered starts, each driver competes against the clock.
It is also the first and only game in the series to be available on a Nintendo home console and the last game in the series to be released on handhelds. It is the first game in the series since McRae's death in 2007 and the last to feature his name in the title.
Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (stylised as Colin McRae: DiRT 2) is a simcade racing video game developed and published by Codemasters in 2009, first for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360, and then later for PC platforms ( Windows, OS X).