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Will it be better, worse or the same with last year’s game?

About that, Im not sure of. But it would have been great, if they had released it this week, or a week ago. That way everyone could “enjoy” the 6 weeks without F1.

They need to rehaul it and put in a challenge mode or something alongside the Championship.

Add historical tracks and cars, so see if you can Match Senna’s performance in Donington, or try and take Ligier to the Monaco win.

There are so many great tracks and cars that they could add into the game, and the licenses for old seasons must be cheaper now?

Interesting – there’s going to be a demo this time:

A little bit of #F12012 news for you from #Gamescom: there will be a demo this year (hopefully out the week before release)

— Andy Gray (@AndyGray_) August 15, 2012

It’ll be on PSN, Xbox Live and Steam around the 14th September.

— Andy Gray (@AndyGray_) August 15, 2012

being that i skipped f1 2011, i’m looking forward to it as an upgrade to f1 2010

One of the things I want more then anything else is more setup settings.
Similar to the spreadsheet of settings we saw in the F1 2006 CE.
It would be good if there was, like now, an easy setup feature where you can choose from a set of presets, but give the option to other players to change a lot more things on the car to get it, just right.
I think that is something that all CM games lack. I was also genuinely disappointed with Dirt 2 because the setup feature was so basic compared to the one in the previous game.

I like the sound of “Champions Mode”, but I’m concerned that it is going to be under-developed. One of the things that I really liked about F1 2011 was the challenge mode, where you were given a pre-determined car to drive around a pre-determined circuit to try and beat a pre-determined laptime – but there were only half a dozen of these challenges, when the selection of twelve cars and nineteen circuits gave thousands of potential combinations. Codemasters really could have put a lot more effort into this, so I’m worried that “Champions Mode” is going to go the same way with a limited gameplay mode that only explores a bit of its potential.

And would it have killed them to get the drivers to do a bit of voicework when you accept the challenge? Right now, it’s just Kimi Raikkonen glowering at you. Maybe the licence with FOM limits it – Codemasters apparently have to use the helmets for F1 Race Stars instead of showing the drivers’ faces during the game. Perhaps the same applies here, though if FOM have any sense, they’ll let Codemasters go for it next time. Anything that makes the game more accessible to the player can only be a good thing. It’s a bit like David Croft referring to the player as “[Raikkonen's] team-mate in the second Lotus” rather than by name, which strikes me as a bit odd because in the past they have programmed the game and recorded dialogue that allowed the in-game commentators to refer to the player by name.

@briggerz

Hes not Grosjean so why would croft mention him as Grosjean?

I’m afraid you’ve completely missed my point. When I said I was disappointed that I was disappointed that Croft referred to the player as “[Raikkonen's] team-mate in the second Lotus” rather than by name, I meant that I was disappointed hat Croft referred to the player as “[Raikkonen's] team-mate in the second Lotus” rather than by the player’s name.

I don’t know if you’ve ever played it before, but when you start a new game in Dirt 3, the game asks you for your name and allows you to set things up so that the commentators in the game will refer to you by name. There is a limited selection, but they cover most of the common names. Codemasters programmed it so that all the names were recorded, and they could be seamlessly inserted into the dialogue depending on the nme the palyer chose. I don’t see why they couldn’t do the same here so that instead of saying “And here is Kimi’s team-mate in the second Lotus”, the commentary would say “And here is Kimi’s team-mate Paul in the second Lotus”.

It’s personalising the game, making it more accessible to the player, and that can only be a good thing.