Loading times between sessions aren't great, but that's typical of a game that extracts a decent amount of the graphical juice that the current crop of consoles possesses.į1 2011 derives a lot from this year's Formula One rules, which equip cars with DRS – a switchable rear wing flap making your car more slippery on the straights – and KERS, which gives you a finite speed-boost which is regenerated every lap. There's a pretty meaty single-player game in which you have five seasons to chisel out a drive at one of the top teams and win a world championship, and you can choose whether to participate in all the sessions, or truncate the race weekends and the races themselves.Īfter each session, you're interviewed by a virtual version of Radio 5 Live's David Croft (looking considerably more bewildered than he does in real life), and the game's contract machinations are quite fun.Ĭodemasters has tidied up all the game's off-track episodes. Although you do need to hone your throttle control. The joy of exploring maximum mid-corner velocities along with the stability of handling and the cars' general predictability is enough to encourage even the least talented wheelmen to start turning off the driver aids.Īnd while the traction control (of which there are two levels, neither of which robs you of cornering speed like Gran Turismo's does) makes a big difference, you don't need the talent of a Jenson Button or Lewis Hamilton to compete with all assists turned off. The cars feel incredibly planted and prodigiously grippy, and the superbly detailed and crisp graphics convey a startling sense of insane speed. The first thing you noticed is that the car handling has received attention.
But F1 2010 served up an impressively convincing simulacrum of the pinnacle of motor sport, and developer Codemasters Birmingham hasn't stinted with its successor. Formula One's relentlessly commercial nature adds a layer of complication when you try to turn it into a game, which may explain why the official licence has pinged around the publishers – EA and Sony have owned it in the past.
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