F1 2013 is pretty much what you'd expect, F1 2012 but with a bit more and honestly I'm fine with that, mostly because that bit more is brilliant.
The game does settle into familiar territory in many aspects, the career, season challenge, tutorial, scenario mode (previously champions mode) and time trial (not that you can do much with this mode) are all identical pretty much.
As for improvements I like that if you do the tutorial well enough you can start on a top team (Lotus). The handling is once again harder than in the previous one, continuing the trend of still being a bit arcade-y but becoming more and more realistic with each game. At it's best it feels amazing to drive and certainly is the best so far, something to expect from a racing series, the driving always has to get better.
But ok is there anything new here?
Agh there's these classic cars and tracks that nobody really cares about idk i mean who wants that...
So anyway most of my time was spend on those.
Okay I gotta say whoever came up with the idea is an absolute genius, classic cars representing the 80s and 90s era of F1 is amazing, they're so fucking awesome. AND classic tracks too like holy shiiiiiiiiiiit they really went all out. And you got a separate scenario mode for these classic cars AND they got one of the commentators from that era to commentate these scenarios oh man this is a wet dream for anyone who is nerdy about F1's history.
You got the 1986 Lotus driven by Ayrton Senna (the game says it was driven by Mario Andretti though idk what's up with that), Mansel's dominant Williams FW14B from 92, also the Williams of Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve from 96. Schumacher's Ferrari's from 96 and 99. There's some more, wish they got the mclaren mp4/4 driven by Senna and Prost in 1988 which is one of the greatest F1 cars ever, winning all but one race.
I mean it is hard to not notice that it's all Williams, Ferrari and Lotus cars which I assume is in a way perhaps for continuity, seeing these 3 evolve over the 80s and 90s...except Lotus wasn't much of a thing in the 90s so its all Williams and Ferrari cars (no Benettons rip). Also perhaps just licensing.
Still even with that nitpick it's hard to argue against this selection, only one that I say shouldn't be here is the 99 Williams which was a mediocre car that didn't do anything of note really, it was driven by Michael Schumacher's brother so...it's got that...Otherwise it's no different from say this years Alpine, supremely mediocre most of the time with some good results once in a while.
Anyway what about the classic tracks? Well they're pretty much perfect picks, funny seeing Imola being seen as this legendary track that isn't raced anymore now...Well it still wasn't raced this year but it's on the calendar ig.
Brands Hatch, Jerez and Estoril are also here. Brands Hatch and Jerez are fantastic tracks that are so fun to drive, just awesome, Estoril is decent too, love how it looks, very well done but i guess it's a weird pick idk nobody really talks about that track from what I've seen.
You can play on these classic tracks with the 2013 cars too which is awesome and also the 2013 tracks can be driven by the classic tracks which is nice.
This is prb the first F1 game where I didn't spend all my time in the career but instead another mode. I mean yeah career mode is the main mode but fuck those classic cars are fun. It's one addition it has over 2012 but it's such a great addition that I'm keeping this game installed just for them haha.
That's about it, mostly more of the same but slightly better + one amazing addition, another great entry in the series.
I'll be skipping F1 2014 btw, I tried it and it was so bad I unninstalled after 20 mins lol.
The game does settle into familiar territory in many aspects, the career, season challenge, tutorial, scenario mode (previously champions mode) and time trial (not that you can do much with this mode) are all identical pretty much.
As for improvements I like that if you do the tutorial well enough you can start on a top team (Lotus). The handling is once again harder than in the previous one, continuing the trend of still being a bit arcade-y but becoming more and more realistic with each game. At it's best it feels amazing to drive and certainly is the best so far, something to expect from a racing series, the driving always has to get better.
But ok is there anything new here?
Agh there's these classic cars and tracks that nobody really cares about idk i mean who wants that...
So anyway most of my time was spend on those.
Okay I gotta say whoever came up with the idea is an absolute genius, classic cars representing the 80s and 90s era of F1 is amazing, they're so fucking awesome. AND classic tracks too like holy shiiiiiiiiiiit they really went all out. And you got a separate scenario mode for these classic cars AND they got one of the commentators from that era to commentate these scenarios oh man this is a wet dream for anyone who is nerdy about F1's history.
You got the 1986 Lotus driven by Ayrton Senna (the game says it was driven by Mario Andretti though idk what's up with that), Mansel's dominant Williams FW14B from 92, also the Williams of Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve from 96. Schumacher's Ferrari's from 96 and 99. There's some more, wish they got the mclaren mp4/4 driven by Senna and Prost in 1988 which is one of the greatest F1 cars ever, winning all but one race.
I mean it is hard to not notice that it's all Williams, Ferrari and Lotus cars which I assume is in a way perhaps for continuity, seeing these 3 evolve over the 80s and 90s...except Lotus wasn't much of a thing in the 90s so its all Williams and Ferrari cars (no Benettons rip). Also perhaps just licensing.
Still even with that nitpick it's hard to argue against this selection, only one that I say shouldn't be here is the 99 Williams which was a mediocre car that didn't do anything of note really, it was driven by Michael Schumacher's brother so...it's got that...Otherwise it's no different from say this years Alpine, supremely mediocre most of the time with some good results once in a while.
Anyway what about the classic tracks? Well they're pretty much perfect picks, funny seeing Imola being seen as this legendary track that isn't raced anymore now...Well it still wasn't raced this year but it's on the calendar ig.
Brands Hatch, Jerez and Estoril are also here. Brands Hatch and Jerez are fantastic tracks that are so fun to drive, just awesome, Estoril is decent too, love how it looks, very well done but i guess it's a weird pick idk nobody really talks about that track from what I've seen.
You can play on these classic tracks with the 2013 cars too which is awesome and also the 2013 tracks can be driven by the classic tracks which is nice.
This is prb the first F1 game where I didn't spend all my time in the career but instead another mode. I mean yeah career mode is the main mode but fuck those classic cars are fun. It's one addition it has over 2012 but it's such a great addition that I'm keeping this game installed just for them haha.
That's about it, mostly more of the same but slightly better + one amazing addition, another great entry in the series.
I'll be skipping F1 2014 btw, I tried it and it was so bad I unninstalled after 20 mins lol.