The curbs are not your friend as I quickly found myself spinning out fairly easy. It’s all about grip and maintaining speed. As for the car handling, the tyres play the biggest part. These would be the tyres to set your qualifying speed on. Ultrasoft tyres will get you the best grip and speed, but are short on life. Just like the real sport, there are four dry tyres to choose from and the rules are enforced in the game. On the track, the big focus in Formula One this year have been tyre management. Setups in qualifying are carried over to the event, so you need to decide on how well your car feels prior to race day and not on it. If you want more speed and less grip, there are varying presets to choose without having to be a real engineer. There are presets geared towards how you want your car to feel. As for the pre-race car element, the car setups have been made more user-friendly in 2017. This also includes podium celebrations after the race complete with champagne showers.
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Everything from the pre-race graphics and track overlays to the drivers and teams in the pits or on the grid makes it feel like you’re truly gearing up for a real event. Never has a pre-race broadcast in a Formula One game been represented this greatly. One of the most eye catching elements of F1 2017 is the pre-race and post-race. Also, if you start with a lower tier team, you’re flat out not going to win races. That adds a lot of pressure to the player, which relates to the Mercedes drivers in real life. The problem is with that is that you are expected to win every single race, not just be in contention.
Sure, you can go to a team like Haas that has modest hopes in just being competitive, or you can replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes. As mentioned earlier, the game includes the 2017 storylines, so the expectations need to be met based on the team you are on. In F1 2017, you can literally go to any team that you would like, but there are stipulations. Gone are the days of starting from the bottom or competing in the rookie testing. The approach to the career mode is new in F1 2017. The career mode fully authenticates what is currently being done in today’s Formula One and it’s masterful. These points can be applied to a development tree to improve the performance of your car, giving players a better idea of just how much goes into a Formula One team. Completing goals such as tyre management and braking points will reward R&D points. Mini-games have been included that tie into the R&D directly. Practice sessions are now more than just getting acclimated with the circuit. This has to be managed throughout each season, leading to engine and part failures during the season if not managed correctly. Following the strict rules of the sport, each team is assigned a number of parts to use such as power units and engines. Appearing for the first time is research and development.
The sport is truly represented in what the teams are doing this year. While there has always been a career mode in the series, it has never been as in-depth as 2017. Codemasters has taken a different approach this year with what the game offers to its racers.
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With F1 2017, Codemasters has delivered on its deepest version of the series.į1 2017 features every track, race team and driver of the current season, including the storylines. This developer has engineered an excellent representation of the sport on a yearly basis for nearly ten years. So it is safe to say there is a fanbase out there that wants to experience the true essence of the sport for itself.
One grand prix garners more viewership that an entire season of NASCAR or even the Super Bowl, and this is weekly. The motorsport known as Formula One is the largest viewed racing spectacle in the world.