I thought that too because it didn't support FFB, but now they have released the patch for download. Try it again, it is actually almost as good as Grand Prix 4 used to be. For the first time? Hmm, a bit of an overstatement: It might be true for the European/Japanese market, but not for us in the US: We haven't had an update since....Grand Prix 4 years ago. Then came F1CE, which is based on the 2006 version. So if we have to miss a year, well, ahem, that'd be an improvement as a time gap compared to GP4 to F1CE. I sure hope not: They would ruin the game with that ridiculous XBox wheel and the whimpy FFB they gave us for Forza 2. Face it: Microsoft doesn't know how to do FFB. Simple as that. PS: I'm not a PS3 fan/XBox360 hater. I have both systems for its own purposes. PS3 is made for racing, XBox360 runs AceCombat 6 and Rockband .
So, is this game going to be based on the 2008 season since it will be released in 2009? A release of May 30, 2009 wouldn't give them a whole lot of time to get all of the new specs/looks for 2009 would it?
09 May 2008 Codemasters has revealed they've got access to the coveted F1 licence, and will use it to develop a title based on the 2009 F1 season. The game will be released on 360 and PS3 as well as unspecified handhelds and PC. They boast their game will be the first to have Lewis Hamilton make an appearance in it. "Formula One is ambitious in expanding its reach with more circuits planned beyond recent additions in the Middle East and China. It is also ambitious in expanding its reach via technology" comments Rod Cousens, chief executive officers of Codemasters. "The digital communities that computer and video gaming creates will play a key role in further growing the F1 audience and connecting them globally. As a world-leading creator of driving games, this alliance with F1 is the jewel in Codemasters' racing crown and creates an undisputed segment champion." Chris Denning, chairman of Codemasters, added: "Codemasters' success and recent innovations in the racing game space makes the company more than appropriately tuned for the challenge. The combination of F1's new momentum of expansion and Codemasters' contemporary technology and past experience is the breaking of a new dawn for the sport, on the track and on the HD game screen." Work on the game has apparently already begun with 350 people already working hard on the project. An updated version of the EGO Engine from Colin McRae: DIRT and the upcoming Race Driver: GRID will used to build the game.
I'm glad Sony lost the license, their F1 game attempts were pretty poor and being available on playstations only didn't really help. Will be interesting to see what Codemasters do, but they might make it abit arcadey, wait n see
I still wish Bizarre had a chance to re-claim the rights. The game has never been quite the same since the title left the Bizarre/Psygnosis studios. I still think that F1 '95 is the best game of the genre, graphics not withstanding.
