tickler136

I really wanted to like this game, I've been a fan of Formula One for many years, and I enjoy football management games, despite not even liking football. Yet the best game thus far for a budding F1 manager is Grand Prix World, which was originally released on Babbage's analytical engine some time in the 1950s. It was, therefore, with a huge sense of excitement that I opened the game, having waited up all night for it to download from Steam. (Other digital downloads are available, and to be frank if you really MUST try the game, I'd suggest one of the less "acceptable" ones.) Straight away, I was confronted with one of the most awkward, slow user interfaces I've ever used. It pays to be a coffee drinker if you play this game, you have enough time to make another brew while waiting for the computer to register mouse clicks. The gameplay itself is no great shakes, either. Repetitive micromanagement is fine, if it's detailed micromanagement, but you have very little control over what's going on in your team. You'll arrive at the first race, and lose. By that point, unfortunately, any desire to carry on has withered away. Formula One fans don't necessarily need the big licenses (Hence the "comical" names, the likes of which haven't been seen since Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge), but seriously, we deserve better than this tripe.