Was a PC head for many years, but always pushed my machine for F1 and Flight Sims (remember X-plane anyone?). But when Sony won the bidding war for F1 and the PS3 finally launched, I was sold. So now drive my coffee table round the lounge to F1 Champ from Liverpool Soft.

Really wasn’t sure at first, but with a good wheel/pedal setup and a rather fun big TV, have got some damn good racing in.

Was sad to see the franchise leave Liverpool, but Codemasters have been generally excellent in producing top end racing games – TOCA & TOCA2 being a good case in point. Yes, I know they have produced pure gamer orientated titles, but there IS a market for those products too.

I for one am intrigued by the end result. I don’t expect the Wii version to be representative of the highend console release, so am unfazed by the rather worrying 15fps Wii pre-release vid. But hells, Wii fans are allowed to enjoy some racing fun too…

Best racing game ever? GP4.
Should have been best racing game ever? LeMans 24heurs.
Worst F1 sim? Monaco F1 Racing.

“Multiple control setups: Five fully customisable control schemes, including Wii Wheel and Logitech steering wheel support.”

“Ego” was never developed for the Wii, so presumably they had to start from scratch as this game looks appalling compared to GRID!

Just the squared off corners are making me a bit sick, without mentioned the hideously simplefied physics =/

luckily though, I think the Xbox and PS3 releases will be much much much better!

For the most part F1 fans are real fans. They want as close to a replicated experience as possible. I don’t think a casual gaming console like the Wii can do that, nor will the casual gaming market uptake a game like this en masse.

On the flip side, I guess I can sort of see why however, casual gamers are the fastest growing market right now. They probably want to capitalize on it, which is a business and $$ driven decision. THere is probably a technical reason since developing for the PSP and Wii was probably a much simpler proposition than the PS3, and done in order to bring the game to market under time and budget constraints.

I personally think this is a bad move on codemaster’s part, even thought I can understand why they did it. I will keep playing the 2006 game on my PS3 with my G25 wheel setup until it comes out and I am possibly proven wrong.

Comparing it to rfactor is a joke. Its an amazing game but its not for everyone – playing online is too hard because whoever has the best car setup and wheel are the best and some people just aren’t into going that much into it

ITS NOT TRYING TO BE RFACTOR! STOP COMPARING IT TO RFACTOR!

- buy the maximum traction control upgrade for your car.
- use autogears.
- play around with the steering, accelerator and brake sensitivity until it suits you.

It’s not a big problem… it adds 1 or 2 seconds to your laptime, that’s all. This can be compensated for by turning down the AI strength to 95% or so.

jeje and for those who complaint about the complainers, it’s supossed to be an official product from F1, not a mod made by fans, and even those mods, are hundred better than this crap

It looks worse than rFactor. Not only is rFactor several years old, but moreover the tracks and cars are designed by amateurs and given away for free.

This game looks far too arcade style. Cars look terrible, handling looks truely horrible, a friend of mine is actually working on the game…hope he doesn’t come on this website!