F1 2011

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

i think the game is really good but i wouldn't suggest turning on the safety car. Every time a safety car is deployed it will auto brake you every single time and your not allowed to pass people in a safety car but every one else will overtake you IT'S NOT FAIR! And if someone overtakes you in Melbourne they will speed ahead of you and you can't catch up with them because they're driving at literally driving at a billion miles per hour! I recommend you be careful with what track you pick! I'll give it a 6!

I am not at all even remotely interested in F1. To me it's more about the car and technology and track conditions than it is about the driver. I got this game purely to drive fast around world-renowned famous tracks. But there's too much additional rubbish that stop me from doing so. Laptop, email, interviews, qualifying, practice, long/short race weekend etc. I don't want all this. I don't even want to race against AI. I just want time trials. Luckily, you can put the AI on Amateur, skip qualifiying and start last but reduce rules and flags, turn collisions off and get into first place after the first couple of corners. You can also adjust the length of the race, even setting it to 3 laps rather than the full 56. A game like this couldn't have been done by anyone but Codemasters. On the track, the game works reasonably well. It takes time to get used to the unpredictable handling, as the car can suddenly spin out with no gradual warning at all. But it's that edge which makes the game freightening and instense- especially at lower speeds when taking tight bends. Since car setup is such a huge part of F1, you can adjust just about everything, which is good for getting the best lap times in optimal conditions. Unfortunately, my lack of interest in the sport means this game isn't as enjoyable as I'd hoped. The game doesn't have a tutorial for all the rules of F1, yet they have included driving assists. The game's graphics are possibly the most outdated I've ever seen in a racing game. But that doesn't really matter. Cckpit view is where this game is experienced best. My biggest problem with this game isn't the god aweful career mode or the archaic graphics, but generally the whole package. The time attack scenarios, for example, couldn't have possibly been any worse. The developers have picked the worst possible tracks, rubbish cars and to make matters worse, half of them are in the rain. There's only 6 too. Cars all handle the same imo, just straight line speed is different. It's also that F1 cars are generally not fun to drive. You can't powerslide around corners, and you can lose grip so easily. The only technical issue this game suffers from is corner cutting detection. On one hand, you can completely miss out a corner if you angle it exactly right and escaped undetected, whilst placing a wheel an inch within the apex could land you a WARNING: CORNER CUTTING - LAP TIME INVALIDATED. The tracks themsleves aren't great either. Whoever designed Montreal and Monaco clearly never tried driving round it. It's these two tracks which have the biggest corner-cutting issues. Even the Nurburgring F1 circuit, which is normally alright on other racing games- is poor on here. The game is still quite expensive so if you're after bang for your buck, F1 2011 will be very dissapointing. I can see the appeal of the game only to people who are quite happy to spend their entire life stalking F1 drivers, engineers, teams etc. If you're not obsessed or don't center your life around F1 seasons, just don't bother getting this.

If this were the first version of this game I would say it is worth a 7 or an 8, but taking it as what it is, a fixes&update version of another game I already bought (F1 2010) I have to say that it's not worth the average 60â

A glitchy, broken mess. CM learnt nothing from F1 2010 and simply replaced one set of glitches with another. Although handling has been improved, any semblance of competence has been ruined by the catastrophic multiplayer. Decent online play is ruined by constant lag and unequal cars.