Okay hear me out on this one, its still not good, or decent, but I think it's more enjoyable than 2010.
Firstly the handling and physics have been overhauled completely and the cars are much easier to handle...maybe too easy. Def too easy, you can just throw these cars around without issue and it feels very arcadey. Though its not like last years game was realistic, just hard, bad racing games often think that hard=realistic.
Is the other extreme any better? Some would say no, I say thank god cuz I couldn't handle having my car spin around with maximum traction control over pretty much nothing.
Safety cars, red flags, slipstreaming (can't believe this wasn't in the last one) are all introduced to the series alongside the kers system (little boost for 6 secs in every lap you can choose to use whenever). Also first year with DRS, technically in 2010 there was the F-duct that certain teams used but the game didn't feature it.
Other big improvement over f1 2010 is that you have more options for starting teams, you got the 3 awful ones and now also Williams and Force India, good additions. Both midfield cars, well irl the Williams was a backmarker then but the Force India was def a strong lower midfield car. I don't think there's any difference between the 2, it wasn't until 2015 that the cars got team specific traits so it's tier based I think. So HRT, Lotus and Virgin would be tier shit. Williams, Torro Rosso, Sauber and Force India would be tier whatever. You get the point, Red Bull and Mclaren top tier.
I choose Force India, started on the 2nd easiest difficulty and dominated, increased the difficulty a bunch till the 2nd hardest where I was still fighting for podiums.
I played until I got bored, didn't take too long, still it look longer than with 2010 so that's a plus. So what makes this ultimately mid? It's got nothing.
Career mode is here sure though I don't think it's very replayable unlike with the newer games, seems like it'll be the same experience everytime. Heard every season your car goes to the next tier but its not worth playing a 20 hour career mode like 4 times so your shitty ass Virgin car can fight with Red Bull.
Oh right there's upgrades in this (and last one tbf) but they aren't that interested, every once in a while during practice you have an objective, usually...well...all of it is just you doing a couple of laps trying to get a specific time. Then boom upgrade, it's whatever. Little motivation to keep going for me.
Outside of career there's time trial, grand prix mode, multiplayer ofc and...agh...the settings?
Not much interesting, which sucks cuz the next one has a lot of interesting modes and features. Oh well...guess this one's just mid.
Firstly the handling and physics have been overhauled completely and the cars are much easier to handle...maybe too easy. Def too easy, you can just throw these cars around without issue and it feels very arcadey. Though its not like last years game was realistic, just hard, bad racing games often think that hard=realistic.
Is the other extreme any better? Some would say no, I say thank god cuz I couldn't handle having my car spin around with maximum traction control over pretty much nothing.
Safety cars, red flags, slipstreaming (can't believe this wasn't in the last one) are all introduced to the series alongside the kers system (little boost for 6 secs in every lap you can choose to use whenever). Also first year with DRS, technically in 2010 there was the F-duct that certain teams used but the game didn't feature it.
Other big improvement over f1 2010 is that you have more options for starting teams, you got the 3 awful ones and now also Williams and Force India, good additions. Both midfield cars, well irl the Williams was a backmarker then but the Force India was def a strong lower midfield car. I don't think there's any difference between the 2, it wasn't until 2015 that the cars got team specific traits so it's tier based I think. So HRT, Lotus and Virgin would be tier shit. Williams, Torro Rosso, Sauber and Force India would be tier whatever. You get the point, Red Bull and Mclaren top tier.
I choose Force India, started on the 2nd easiest difficulty and dominated, increased the difficulty a bunch till the 2nd hardest where I was still fighting for podiums.
I played until I got bored, didn't take too long, still it look longer than with 2010 so that's a plus. So what makes this ultimately mid? It's got nothing.
Career mode is here sure though I don't think it's very replayable unlike with the newer games, seems like it'll be the same experience everytime. Heard every season your car goes to the next tier but its not worth playing a 20 hour career mode like 4 times so your shitty ass Virgin car can fight with Red Bull.
Oh right there's upgrades in this (and last one tbf) but they aren't that interested, every once in a while during practice you have an objective, usually...well...all of it is just you doing a couple of laps trying to get a specific time. Then boom upgrade, it's whatever. Little motivation to keep going for me.
Outside of career there's time trial, grand prix mode, multiplayer ofc and...agh...the settings?
Not much interesting, which sucks cuz the next one has a lot of interesting modes and features. Oh well...guess this one's just mid.