In that respect, this entry is built upon a solid foundation, and while it is certainly showing its age in places, the gameplay remains enjoyable. Last year’s entry was an enjoyable game, and offered the best F1 experience on the market. What this leaves you with, then, is a game that not only feels overly familiar – but also offers nothing new.īut let’s not do F1 2014 a complete disservice. To make things worse, this edition actually features less content than its 2013 counterpart, with the popular Classics mode getting the chop. While it’s not unexpected to see some similarity to last year’s game, there’s such a feeling of familiarity here that it’s often hard to work out which title you’re actually playing.įrom menu design, to animations, to textures – it’s all from last year’s version, right down to the Career mode which still includes the same generic e-mails from your team’s boss.
With F1 2015 promised to be an early-season release with dynamic updates, its little surprise that development focus has shifted away from this year’s entry. The cynic among you will already be pointing to the much-touted next-gen debut as the reason for this lack of change, and you would almost certainly be right. Sadly, outside of some fundamental tweaks, this is, in essence, F1 2013 plus a roster update – which itself was only a minor revision of F1 2012. So, with such titanic changes in the sport, it stands to reason that F1 2014 should also have undergone an overhaul to mirror this real-life upheaval. For Formula 1, the answer has been the biggest shake-up in a generation, with new power units, new rules, and new drivers spicing up the action both on and off the track. It’s true of not only sports games, but the sports themselves – after all, no one wants to invest time into something that stays the same every year. One of the hardest things to achieve in a yearly franchise is a hook to keep people coming back.
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