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What was the best F1 racing game? (92 posts)

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Lin1876 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

F-1 World Grand Prix was one of my personal favourites. It was a genuine, tough and satisfying sim on a console which didn’t do racers that well. Perhaps the best feature, though, was the Challenge mode, which challenged you with real scenarios from the 1997 season. It was an awsome mode, and would be very welcome DLC for F1 2011 (hint, hint, Codemasters). I think the rarer sequel (F-1 World Grand Prix II) is actually a marginally better game. The AI is a bit better, and it’s slightly more up to date, but a lot of content is recycled, so the two are very, very similar.

I also remember F-1 World Grand Prix II on Dreamcast being decent enough. It was a totally different game from the same developers, and was based on the 1999 season. Nothing at all special, and nothing on the N64 games, but enjoyable enough all the same.

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Scottie said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Goeff Cramonds GP2 to GP3-2000 had me going for many many years, and gets my vote.

Grand Prix Legends is a Legendary game in it’s own right and I love it… but it was quite a niche sort of game and needed many changes to race online.

They’re also both on PC… I just can’t get into a racing game with a gamepad!

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Matt Birkett said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Codemasters’ F1 2011
If you want to make a great racing game, then Codemasters are the best in the world. This also showed with Race Driver: GRID, DiRT 2 and F1 2010.

Whilst there are one or two bugs on F1 2011, overall, it is a fantastic F1 experience with DRS, KERS, Pirelli tyres, 12 teams, 24 drivers and 19 circuits, an online mode, 5 year career, split screen multiplayer, dynamic weather. It has it all, and that’s why F1 2011 gets my vote

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magon4 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

GP2 for sure.

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plushpile said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Another vote for F1 World GP.
Almost purely for the Challenge mode

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Chalky said 1 year, 4 months ago:

I’ve already commented on my best and worst F1 game, but then I had a thought. Keith never said it had to be a console or PC game. You still have arcade and possibly the consumer simulator option.
What I’m talking about is NetKarPro http://www.netkar-pro.com/ one of the best single seater simulators you can buy for your PC, but is used as a F1 simulator at PureTechRacing http://www.puretechracing.com/
I bought it after I took a trip to PureTechRacing. PTR are linked very close to BallRacingDevelopments who make simulators for race teams. Now some time back they went into partnership with the team that make NetKarPro, and they started using the base code in their simulators.
The next step for BRD was PureTechRacing, making the same simulators and custom version of NetKarPro available for the public to pop along and try out.
So, last year I went to PTR near Gatwick. I organised the event through my work as a social event. It was probably the best F1 racing simulator experience I have had. Ok, so it was in a simulator and they left traction control on and tyre wear off, much to my disappointment, but we did have some people who clearly needed it. You can always speak to PTR and have these changed or change the track etc…
So back to my PC I have NetKarPro loaded up. The most powerful single seater is a GP2 modelled car that comes with the game. The game has the best force feedback I have ever felt and it’s so much fun to drive. However, it’s a simulator, not a game. There are no championship modes or AI. It’s made for online racing for competition or offline free practice only. But, if you have a good force feedback wheel for your PC you must try it.
Not sure if it counts though. It is F1 at PTR, just not on your PC at home.

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SouthPawRacer said 1 year, 4 months ago:

I’ve never played many of the games mentioned here, having only gotten into F1 in 2007. my F1 game repertoire includes F1 05 and F1 06 on the PlayStation 2, and rFactor on the PC. F1 06 on the PS2 is in my opinion pretty underrated… it has pretty good gameplay and a very clinical feel to it, which I always appreciate. Although I’ve never played GP4 or GP Legends, I’d like to stick in a vote for them too, as well as rFactor – all three of them defined entire generations of racing simulator games.

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Keith Collantine said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Your nominations so far – are we missing anything that belongs on the list?

Revs (BBC Micro)
Formula One Grand Prix (Amiga, PC)
Formula 1 ’95 (Playstation)
F1 Pole Position ’96 (Nintendo 64)
Formula 1 ’97 (Playstation)
F1 99
F1 2000 (Playstation)
F-1 World Grand Prix (Nintendo 64)
Grand Prix 2 (PC)
F1 Challenge ’99-’02 (PC)
F-1 World Grand Prix 2 (Dreamcast)
Grand Prix 3 (and GP3-2000) (PC)
Grand Prix Legends (PC)
F1 2010 (Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
Grand Prix 4 (PC)
rFactor (PC)
F1 2011 (Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC)

@Chalky I’ve not included NetKar – let’s keep it to games people are likely to play in their own homes.

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PJ said 1 year, 4 months ago:

F1 ’98 for PlayStation but that’s generally considered to be a very bad version of 97.

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plushpile said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Again it’s not much today, but I remember having stacks of fun with Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge in the early 90s.

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taurus said 1 year, 4 months ago:

My vote goes to Grand Prix 2. It was light years ahead of anything, and the gameplay is still pretty good today, obviously graphics-wise it looks pretty dated. Also it has Adelaide/Imola/Hockenheim/Silverstone and a few other decent tracks that were neutered or dropped after 1994. I was still playing it last year til my flatmate got F1 2011 + racing seat + steering wheel…

GP3 was alright too, and have fond memories of F195 on PlayStation.

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Funkyf1 said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Pole Position (arcade! cockpit n all). I had in my garage as a kid, a really bad game to be honest, but as a kid I loved it.

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EmTheEmu said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Judgement’s being clouded by nostalgia, but it’s F1 2000 on the Playstation for me. It was a big challenge for an 8-year-old (could never get past Melbourne on career mode, even on easy :P) and great fun to play on, even for a kid who wasn’t a proper Formula 1 fan back then. Will have to re-buy it and have another crack at it I think!

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Chris said 1 year, 4 months ago:

My all time favourite has to be the original Geoff Crammond Formula One Grand Prix. I originally had the demo version, which allowed three laps around Monaco as “Robert Davies” (Mansell), battling with “Carlos Sanchez” (Senna) and “Jean Paul Cassell” (Prost).

Then came the full version, with circuits that not long after disappeared from F1 altogether (Phoenix, Arizona & Mexico City). It was truly the grandfather of the games we have today – not only was every twist and turn of the circuit faithfully reproduced, it introduced car dynamics/damage, trackside architecture and wet weather conditions. I remember putting the settings on full, for full length races and being happily engaged for hours.

Plus, it was the last season in which Senna, Prost, Mansell and Piquet all raced together – can’t ask for more than that.

Once GP2 was out, it also got a good battering from me, as does GP4 today! I echo the support for the Playstation F1 ’97 too – it was perhaps the first really “playable” game that came out on the Playstation, I think. Many happy memories!

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Keith Collantine said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@Funkyf1 Wait a minute, you had the Pole Position arcade game in your garage? You lucky thing! I’d have given you my Beano collection for half an hour on that…

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