#F1 2017 game review series#

What’s notable is that all the tracks appear more vibrant and realistic than ever, and the desaturated tones that have defined Codemasters racing games for many years seem to have been finally trashed. Four of them do have new short routes we can use in custom GPs and time trials, but their effect on the overall package isn’t really seismic. Track AttackThere have been no new circuits added to the 2017 calendar so we have to make do with the same tracks we had in F1 2016. I think it’s a clever and credible way of getting these old cars out on modern circuits, but the limited, greatest hits-style approach results in copies of the same car out on track whenever they’re all out racing. They’re a bit like the Showcase Events in Forza Motorsport 6.

#F1 2017 game review series#

This Ferrari still holds a host of current lap records, 13 years later.F1 2017’s classic cars are weaved through the career mode in a series of invitational events, which vary between overtaking challenges, checkpoint challenges, and handicap and multiclass races.

They also sound fantastic, but I don’t know whether or not that’s just because contemporary F1 cars sound like an angry blowfly trying to escape from an upturned bucket in comparison. They do feel very distinct from the modern cars, and each other, and it’s fun to compare and contrast them.

“Also featured is a smattering of retro rides from yesteryear, with 11 (or 12, with the special edition) extra F1 icons from five teams included (from Senna’s championship-winning 1991 McLaren to Schumacher’s beastly 2004 Ferrari).