Codemasters has announced that the playable demo of the DirectX 11-powered Games for Windows LIVE edition of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 has gone live. A full list of mirrors, plus gameplay and tech videos, is now available at www.dirt2game.com. The full game releases on December 4 in the UK.

The playable demo enables gamers to compete in two of Colin McRae: DiRT 2's events. In the Trailblazer event, players take on the ultimate test of rally car against the challenging Moroccan terrain on a point-to-point track filled with flat-out straights and hair-raising hairpins in the Mitsubishi Eclipse GT. In the second event, gamers compete in a Landrush race at the Ensenada Port circuit set in Baja California, where players go wheel-to-wheel in an 8-vehicle race over lethal bumps and killer jumps in the heavy duty West Coast Choppers Stuka TT.

Colin McRae: DiRT 2 Games for Windows LIVE edition releases on December 4 in the UK. Editions for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP are available now.