Game news F1: 9 games to vibrate to the rhythm of the race with the 2022 Formula 1 season
As the 2022 Formula 1 season kicks off this weekend with the Bahrain Grand Prix, JV invites you to look back and take stock of the games in the sport that have shaped the video game. Here is our pick of the 9 best F1 games in history.
Summary
- pole position
- Vroom
- F1 race of champions
- Virtual Racing
- formula 1
- F1 Challenge ’99-’02
- F1 2013
- Motorsport Manager
- F1 2020
pole position
A true monument of the ’80s, Pole Position is a 1982 Namco game released on arcade terminals but also on consoles and computers such as Atari, Amstrad, Commodore 64, etc. The title was a true marker for its time its graphic quality, handling and animation. However, the principle remains the same as most racing games of the time, with an endless road lined with cars to avoid. A principle that we will find again years later in HangOn, OutRun or even in Gran Turismo 7’s Rally Music mode. The game is now playable on PC thanks to the DOS version now considered abandonware.
Vroom
When Vroom was released on Atari computers in 1991, the success was immediate and the game’s reputation quickly made it the benchmark of the hour. In addition to the depth effect achieved by shifting the vanishing line, The graphics engine integrates an unprecedented management of reliefs and simple 3D objects
F1 race of champions
1992 is a blessed year for the F1 game. Whereas Megadrive players enjoy Ayrton Senna Super Monaco Grand Prix 2Super Nintendo owners have a choice of Nigel Mansell’s World Championship, a classic but successful bitmap game and F1 Race of Champions, a title that exploits the famous Mode 7 the Nintendo console. And the latter is characterized by a gameplay never seen before on the console, reminiscent of another title of the machine that exploits Mode 7: F-Zero. Here, the precision of the handling and a certain dosage of the gas pedal are required in order to manage to connect the curves in a closed circuit without setting the wheels in the gravel bed.
Virtual Racing
When Virtua Racing made its debut in Japanese arcade machines in 1992, the world of gamers was divided into two categories: those who saw it as graphical regression versus more detailed bitmap techniques, and those who saw the future of video games with its unprecedented effects saw depth. Of course, the future gives reason to do so Sega signing the first full 3D Formula 1 game here, with its three original circuits. The publisher will also capitalize on Virtua Racing’s worldwide success to make it a standard for the 32X, but also for the Megadrive and Saturn consoles on which the title will be brilliantly adapted. Today we have to turn to the Switch to play the latest version of the title.
formula 1
The licensing revolution took place on PlayStation 1 and 1996. Not only does Formula 1 offer a game entirely in textured 3D with graphics at the pinnacle of what was made back then, but also offers players the opportunity to explore the current season with the real names of the drivers, their image, their team and their car to experience for a championship that competes on real circuits that have been digitized for the occasion. In order to, Even if Formula 1 remains accessible in terms of gameplay, it manages to offer an unprecedented level of immersion to the general public, believable racing events like engine failure or punctured tires and a fairly high level of challenge for those who want to push themselves. It’s also the first in a long line of high-quality F1 games across Sony’s range of home consoles.
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F1 Challenge ’99-’02
While the F1 series has remained untouchable in terms of prominence on PlayStation and PlayStation 2, the PC world welcomes a challenger of a very high caliber in F1 Challenge ’99-’02. Published by Electronic Arts, the game, also accompanied by an FIA license, offers a very high level of performance, an AI that knows how to defend itself and, above all, a gameplay that is still quite entertaining and coherent today. Although accessible to beginners due to the presence of numerous driving aids, The title is still missing a real career modereplaced only by the ability to run an entire season.
F1 2013
With the PS3 and Xbox 360 systems at the end of their careers and ready to welcome their successors, Codemaster brings us one of the best installments in the F1 series to date. HD graphics, full career and physical progression are accompanied by a very significant bonus this season: the presence of historical drivers with their legendary car
Motorsport Manager
If you are passionate about racing with its strategic side, take a look at Motorsport Manager. This most complex little brother is available on many current platforms including Nintendo Switch, Windows PC and iOS or Android systems F1 Manager or Grand Prix Manager 2 puts you at the heart of the industry that governs F1 racing. Engines, technologies, investments, drivers are all points where you have to position yourself and make decisions, hoping that in the race they will be better than those of your competitors. A great way to experience the whims of this mechanical sport not from the driver’s side, but from the side of the team around them.
F1 2020
Every episode that comes out is better than the one before it, given the ongoing F1 series. So of course, with season 2022 beginning, it’s next year’s episode that we’ll have to jump for when it comes out. Meanwhile, in our eyes, F1 2020 will have been the most successful episode of its time, with a simultaneous release on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Top quality graphics, excellent gameplay, career completed and worked through, Notably, F1 2020 adds a “My Team” mode, translated to “My Team”, which gives you the opportunity to integrate a significant part of management into your driver development. Consideration of your teammates, technical and strategic decisions during practice, qualifying and race to ultimately offer the player real emotions when you succeed or narrowly lose. And always with a nice integration of shuttlecocks for players who can use this accessory.
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