F1 Fanatic

From my comment on Twitter:
“Hope it’s the ground effect/turbo era equivalent of Grand Prix Legends…”

Would be great to have the 1985 – 1994 season in one game, and have the NA cars behave differently from the turbo cars (and handling differences between cars with and without active suspension… Also hope they can include the era appropriate driver roster too…

@dam00r Masterpiece? Bug-ridden, more like. Grand Prix 4 is where it’s at

I think you need to play a few more racing games. iRacing has a Williams in it that I’m sure is a lot more spot-on than F12011 is.

Anyway, back to the point. This is interesting. I’m not sure how they’ll sort the licencing out for multiple seasons, but maybe because those seasons are so long ago now that it may be slightly easier.

One way they can get round it is just by using the Ayrton Senna name, and forgoing any officially licenced cars or tracks. But that wouldn’t be a very good game then, would it?

Either way, I hope they come up with a better name that what they gave their last game, Game Stock Car.

Game Ayrton Senna doesn’t sound terribly catchy.

I thought there was an Ayrton Senna game? Just play a racing game online, find some of the angry trolls who decide that if you don’t let them pass they’ll crash into you.

@dam00r agree with your last sentence *packs bags and goes into hiding*

It sounds like it could be fun.

Sounds (engine notes, over apex etc), graphics, throttle gauge and the speed understanding/estimation/judgement”sensation” (wrong word, english is not my first language so help please!) when running through corners and on straights..

F1 2011 is a masterpiece.

@Steph haha no stand here beside me. we are gonna fight ‘em! The fact that Mika Häkkinen was a third driver for McLaren and the “test driver” for Sennas car and putting in so close times as him when only driving 1/10 as much as Senna did in the car reveals alot of his actual performance. So what I’m trying to say is that Mika Häkkinen and Schumi are the best drivers in F1 there have ever been. Maybe If Häkkinen would have driven a few years more, Schumi wouldn’t had so many WDC titles on his belt.

F1 2011 wasn’t a failure, but it definetly wasn’t a “masterpiece”….

I have hope that this game will be good, since Reiza does spectacular things with such a small studio. Still, I wish they had used rFactor 2′s new engine instead of creating their own. I’m sure they can build a convincing package, but I just don’t think it will be that fantastic. There isn’t any information on what licensing they have acquired either, so for all we know we could be driving Formula Armaroli with different liveries on it (ok, I’m sure it won’t be THAT bad, but you get the idea). I won’t get to excited before they announce any more information.

And btw, if you guys want to drive an amazing sim, try their Game Stock Car, it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. If you liked F1 2011, maybe this one isn’t for you (its far more realistic and the cars are much heavier, and even their “F1″ car is very different to F1 2011). Still, if you love sims (iRacing, rFactor, GTR2, RBR, NOT Any of the Codies F1 games!), you should try this one!

Think I’d prefer there was a game covering either the 70′s or 80′s, with each year actually progressing properly with new cars and real drivers (who would enter and exit the sport) without it being attached to a specific driver- unless that driver was actually your rival who you start F1 at the same time or a year or two behind.