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Why Formula One Shouldn’t Have A Videogame

If the experience is too technical to replicate, why bother?

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Dailynch5350d ago

Because I want to drive a formula 1 car dammit!

Biglet5350d ago

No you don't, you just think you want to. You actually want to go really fast and not crash, the opposite of what would happen if you actually drove an F1 car.

ProjectVulcan5350d ago (Edited 5350d ago )

Errrr hands up who doesn't want to drive a Formula 1 car? No hands? Thought so... If i only wanted to go really fast and not crash i would get on a jet airliner. However i can't say its nearly as exciting a prospect.

I would love to drive one, AND have the skill to drive one. These are the fastest things ever built that can get around a proper circuit. If you like cars and turn down a chance to drive one of these for real you must be dead.

Being able to drive one of these is nearly as rare a privilege as walking out onto the field to play in a champions league final. I would imagine there is a massive amount of people wanting to do that too!

So that being the case, a game is as close as most of us will ever get to driving one of these machines....

Biglet5350d ago

Formula One: MarioKart Edition - now that's an idea. Maybe not a good one, but I'd like to play it.

iamnsuperman5350d ago

"Could you imagine anything more dull" your just not the target audience. A lot of people enjoy racing a formula 1 car with it being hard to over take. Its fun to some. I do not like racing games but i can see the audience it caters for.

DaveX3605350d ago

The point is Codemasters' game doesn't really simulate the sport in an accurate way. I'd be happy if it did, because then I wouldn't have to play a neutered racing title.

Apocwhen5350d ago

An interesting piece, but I think ultimately they try their best to balance as much simulation of the sport with entertainment.

It offers enough realism to make the game enjoyable. For example, if I was playing the career mode and I was on the 5th race of the season. I'm was traveling at 300kph and drove straight into a wall, chances are my driver would probably be dead in real life.

Obviously in the game I wouldn't want this to happen or else my entire season would be over and I'd need to restart again :)

DaveX3605350d ago

Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. The fact that the line between easy and difficult is essentially the one that turns traction control on and off also grates.

Either commit to simulating the sport entirely, or offer us some kind of imaginative spin-off that doesn't make victory terribly, terribly easy. You can't have CPU racers acting to the rules and everyone else racing recklessly..

aman84r5350d ago

Why?F1 2010 was one of the best racing title i played last year.

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A Look at All of the Racing Games Available on Vita

VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "The racing genre has always felt like a perfect fit on handhelds, thanks to offering bite-sized sessions and being able to hide technical flaws behind blistering speeds and enclosed environments. It provides a large amount of variety too, from immersive sims to light-hearted kart racers (and my personal favourite, drift-heavy arcade racers!), meaning there’s usually something for everyone to enjoy.

Anticipation was high that the Vita would follow in the PSP’s footsteps as a handheld offering an unrivalled selection of racers, from muddy WRC titles to the clean racing lines of Gran Turismo. Beyond the initial months things didn’t quite pan out like this, but there’s still a nice spread of games available to cater to anyone’s tastes – and thanks to the addition of backwards-compatibility with PSP and PS1, the Vita ends up with possibly the largest selection of any console in the last 10 years, even if it's not all running natively on the hardware."

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F1 2011 vs F1 2015 Singapore comparison

TeamVVV writes: "We put F1 2015 up against F1 2011 in our very latest side by side comparison video.

F1 2011 is running on the Xbox 360 and F1 2015 is the Playstation 4 version. We take a couple of laps at the floodlit Singapore, one of the jewels in the Formula 1 crown, and we are using the now dominant Mercedes.

ShottyGibs3839d ago

F1 2013 is the pinnacle of the series. They newer ones are arcady and watered down

Bass_fisherman3839d ago (Edited 3839d ago )

i had no idea that codemasters did a F1 game so that explains why it was so ahead of its time.

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F1 2010 vs F1 2011 vs F1 2014 vs F1 2015 comparison

Team VVV writes: "To follow up on our recent F1 2011 vs F1 2015 video, we decide to go one step further and put four iterations of Codemasters' F1 titles side by side for comparison purposes and for a little fun too.

We have F1 2010 running at the top left for the Xbox 360, F1 2011 at the top right also for the Xbox 360, the bottom left is last year's F1 2014 for the Playstation 3 and of course F1 2015 running on the Playstation 4 completes the foursome in the bottom right video."

ps5fanboy3968d ago

Gonna have to be a big f1 fan to purchase, as PCars has f1 racing?

ABBAJESUS3968d ago

There is career mode and all the teams, tracks and drivers so yeh this gets my money cos im big f1 fan

deklore3968d ago

There is no career mode. You get to play as one driver for one season as often as you like. I think its called championship mode.

ABBAJESUS3968d ago

@deklore, it's pro season mode or something like that.

jay23968d ago

Mate this is a proper F1 game, all the teams, drivers, tracks, rules etc. so get the real thing over the amazing porject cars for a true f1 experance.