Basic controls, from acceleration and general movement to gear shifting, can be handled with any standard joystick, gamepad, wheel controller, or keyboard. Force feedback support is also available, a first for this series, and a definite bonus for owners of the appropriate hardware. More advanced controls such as sorting through various difficulty and display settings are designated to the keyboard by default. There are far too many control features to detail here, and they are all well catalogued in the instruction manual.
Advanced players will appreciate the option to adjust controller rates, which serves to fine-tune your controller's input sensitivity, making for a smoother, more intuitive racing experience. The driving school serves as more than a simple tutorial session, as you'll be competing with your own best times from the get-go. Colored lines and flashing cones on the driving school circuit indicate the best paths, key braking points, and key acceleration points for each section of track.
Should you happen to dramatically spin out or drive off course, you'll need to start your current lesson over from scratch. It's tough at first, but this is the best way to learn the differences between handling a hairpin turn and a double-apex corner without getting distracted by other drivers. After you've completed a few lessons at the driving school, it's time to move on to the test day game mode.
Once you've selected a circuit and weather conditions for this challenge, it's a good idea to start learning how to tweak your car in the vehicle setup area.
Again, there are too many options to catalogue here spanning eleven pages in the instruction manual , but the straightforward interface, which utilizes sliders to adjust everything from gearing ratios to springs and ride height, ultimately proves less daunting than it may appear at first glance.
As you make adjustments, your estimated top speed, grip, and acceleration stats will alter accordingly onscreen. Spending a bit of trial-and-error time in this mode will make for a smooth transition into the race mode, which consists of four practice sessions, one qualifying round, one warm up round, and finally, a full-fledged race.
It is, of course, still possible to skip straight ahead to the race itself, bypassing all of the preparatory rounds. In fact, you can skip ahead to a championship season or multiplayer session via LAN or Internet if you feel up to the challenge. But easing into things is the best method for truly mastering a game of this nature.
Tweaking your vehicle in accordance with the nuances of each track becomes as rewarding a challenge as racing itself, over time. Those familiar with this series will be pleased by the improved framerates, enhanced graphics, wheel-to-wheel collisions, and more authentic feel of the cockpits, which are based on the actual cockpits of each and every team in the season.
Whatever your thoughts about Formula One, F1 is a game of such quality that it actually makes you care. It's so immersive, detailed and entertaining that you actually want to try really hard in qualifying, in order to secure a decent position on the grid, where split seconds can make the difference between the contenders and the also-rans.
It's so much fun that you won't even want to restart every race when your car picks up any damage. You can even safely play full-length races, and carefully judged pitstops can give you a huge advantage.
It's almost unheard of from an F1 game, and as with its predecessor you can customise each race to either anally-hardcore proportions or simply play from a more arcadey behind-car viewpoint. Buy F1 and you'll be able to live the dream, in whatever way you may envisage it. However, if you want to play the game as realistically as possible, you're going to have to prepare yourself for some extensive car tweaking.
It's easy to dismiss this as essentially a typical EA Sports wash-and-brush-up of the last version of the game, but on closer inspection you'll soon find that this year's model comes with far more features see boxout , catering for F1 lovers of all abilities from Richie Shoemaker to Michael Schumacher. With all the aids switched on, it's virtually monkey proof, enabling you to tear round the tightest of tracks with aplomb.
However, simply switch the autobrake off and you realise you haven't actually been playing the game at all, rather that it's been playing you.
There are so many driver aids - brake, steering, shift, clutch, invulnerability, stability - that finding a happy medium is almost impossible, unless of course you're content to play the game as a glorified destruction derby. Worse still, all of the aids can be altered ingame, so you often find yourself switching off the autobrake in an attempt to make up time, and then flicking it back on as you approach a tricky chicane.
It's tantamount to cheating. And that's before you've even started tinkering with the Al drivers' ability and aggression. It's a minefield, but to be honest that's the only real quibble with what is a superb Formula One game. Made by Image Space Inc. Screenshots from MobyGames. Alex F1 2 points. George Groid -1 point. Martian BOO 0 point. Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like.
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