Codemasters: 2009 F1 Game Will Be Sim

Way t’go Codemasters!

I’ve always liked what these guys have produced, and had high hopes that the upcoming Grand Prix game, that would be the officially sanctioned Grand Prix game,would be better then the crap turned out by EA et al for the past however long.

So far, I think I’ve owned every thing that CodeMasters has put out, and I was very impressed with their WRC/Colin McRae line of releases. As someone who has rallied in the past (and no, not at the WRC level, not even close), they came pretty close in a number of respects to what a rally car feels like, especially on loose surfaces … that whole, “Pitch it into the corner and then put in all of the opposite lock you got” was pretty damn close, and the “Oh my God – here we go!!!” feeling was sickeningly accurate; the knowledge that you got the turn-in about a foot too late, and now your tail is quickly drifting WAY beyond 90 Deg., and here comes that stand of trees or that cliff edge …

That’s what I like about racing sims, it’s easy to be brave when you’re digital. When there’s a reset button, I’m braver than Gilles Villenueve and more suicidally competitive than Tazio Nuvolari; “That’s enough of a gap-oops, no it wasn’t!” In the real world … I was mediocre on a track or a rally stage, I’m much better in a virtual world.

So, CodeMasters seem to be taking on the F1 contract with great seriousness.

It’s easy to make a sim run like and arcade game, but virtually impossible to make a game as realistic as a sim.

Source: F1Fanatic

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