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Let's see how this game excells itself in a way that makes its contestant jealous. You can change your vehicles speed, handling and you can also test them before each race. The animations are professionally done, the sounds and graphics are high quality, and the interface is intuitive and nice.
Unlike Grand Prix, F1 has sexy ladies at starting grid. The camera angles aren't so numerous, but they are carefully planned and elaborated, so is the rendering of the tracks. Once you're ready to ditch KITT and turn professional, it's a good idea to read the straightforward "default controls" and "cockpit overview" sections of the instruction manual, then play a few rounds at the driving school, gradually toggling the assistance features off as your skills improve.
Basic controls, from acceleration and general movement to gear shifting, can be handled with any standard joystick, gamepad, wheel controller, or keyboard. Force feedback support is also available, a first for this series, and a definite bonus for owners of the appropriate hardware. More advanced controls such as sorting through various difficulty and display settings are designated to the keyboard by default.
There are far too many control features to detail here, and they are all well catalogued in the instruction manual. Advanced players will appreciate the option to adjust controller rates, which serves to fine-tune your controller's input sensitivity, making for a smoother, more intuitive racing experience.
The driving school serves as more than a simple tutorial session, as you'll be competing with your own best times from the get-go. Colored lines and flashing cones on the driving school circuit indicate the best paths, key braking points, and key acceleration points for each section of track.
Should you happen to dramatically spin out or drive off course, you'll need to start your current lesson over from scratch. It's tough at first, but this is the best way to learn the differences between handling a hairpin turn and a double-apex corner without getting distracted by other drivers. After you've completed a few lessons at the driving school, it's time to move on to the test day game mode. Once you've selected a circuit and weather conditions for this challenge, it's a good idea to start learning how to tweak your car in the vehicle setup area.
Again, there are too many options to catalogue here spanning eleven pages in the instruction manual , but the straightforward interface, which utilizes sliders to adjust everything from gearing ratios to springs and ride height, ultimately proves less daunting than it may appear at first glance.
As you make adjustments, your estimated top speed, grip, and acceleration stats will alter accordingly onscreen. Spending a bit of trial-and-error time in this mode will make for a smooth transition into the race mode, which consists of four practice sessions, one qualifying round, one warm up round, and finally, a full-fledged race. It is, of course, still possible to skip straight ahead to the race itself, bypassing all of the preparatory rounds.
In fact, you can skip ahead to a championship season or multiplayer session via LAN or Internet if you feel up to the challenge.
But easing into things is the best method for truly mastering a game of this nature. Tweaking your vehicle in accordance with the nuances of each track becomes as rewarding a challenge as racing itself, over time. Those familiar with this series will be pleased by the improved framerates, enhanced graphics, wheel-to-wheel collisions, and more authentic feel of the cockpits, which are based on the actual cockpits of each and every team in the season.
Advanced players of the obsessive variety will also enjoy the telemetry utility, which provides a thorough analysis of where you are gaining and losing time on any given lap, and why.
This is by far the best edition of a topnotch series, but there's still considerable room for improvement in a number of areas. The lackluster sound and weather effects are a mild disappointment. Crowds still appear as static pixelated blotches.
Side-view mirrors do not accurately depict your full surroundings, rather opting to filter out details in a somewhat surreal fashion pass a row of trees and you may see only track and sky in the side view mirror. Overall, the graphics are excellent, but they pale in comparison to Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 4, which takes pains to be as breathtakingly photorealistic as possible.
Even with the reality settings on high, the physics are considerably unusual at times. On more than one occasion, I found that a high-speed crash resulted in a weird sort of suspended sequence of flipping over directly in place, as if a trans-dimensional vortex had been partially opened by the impact.
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