Sweeping in-game shots of many of the tracks appear in the opening video, calmly and gently luring you into the game. It’s not like racing it’s more akin to a maths test. Traditionally, Formula 1 games can be frightfully hard to play and certainly if you favour arcade racers all the micromanagement that’s needed to set the gear ratios, ride height, aerodynamics and fluffy dice position before you even set foot into the car can be somewhat overwhelming. The last race of the season, this year in Abu Dhabi, will see the driver and constructor points awarded for that race, doubled, a tad controversial. Amongst a number of other changes to there is one sticky one that many people are at odds over. There has been some tinkering with the weight, size and height forcing teams to design their cars differently from last year.

There have been some major change to this years competition, perhaps most notably is the engine size, now1.6 litre turbos rather than the massive 2.6 litre engines from last year causing some die-hard Formula 1 fans to moan that the cars were not loud enough. In some cases a yearly update perhaps as DLC would be cool enough, but Codemasters like to give us a full game to showcase and why not? I personally enjoy watching every race and love the way the drivers all misbehave or some scandal occurs as the season progresses.įormula 1 sees to it every year that there are some new rules to fox the teams and us with in an attempt to make the races fairer, perhaps more efficient and environmentally friendly and for the race goer hopefully more exciting to watch.

Racing in F1 is as exciting and at times, as boring, as you want it to be, because it all depends on your point of view as to whether F1 is as exhilarating to watch as it is to play.

We lap them up every new season simply because we are so in love with the given sport that it makes sense to us. Yearly updates are the normal way sports based games like to play the field.

F1 2014 video game review