F1 Race Stars by Codmasters

'Wes · 6 Nov 2012 at 10:41

I'll give this a bash, looks fun.

wnb · 6 Nov 2012 at 10:46

I thought it looks fun, My son who is 5 thinks it is cool, I just need to decide if I will buy it for the PC or the PS3.

Johnz0r · 6 Nov 2012 at 11:17

Game is great fun. Graphics are decent too.

4T5 · 6 Nov 2012 at 11:32

over-the-top "racing theme parks", littered with loop-the-loops, short-cuts, ramps and speed boosts.

Drivers such as Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel have been transformed in cartoonish caricatures.

Power-ups include KERS, which is used to gain a speed boost, safety car deployment to hold up other drivers, summoning wet weather to spin out rivals or calling down a rain cloud on the race leader

Sounds ace, Wish i was ten years old.

sketchytom · 6 Nov 2012 at 11:40

the big kid inside me says 'cool'

Kosmiche · 6 Nov 2012 at 11:43

Does it have pit stops

Gimpymoo · 6 Nov 2012 at 11:45

Frenzy said:
Demo is up on steam

Thanks for the heads up.

Downloading.

maxilive · 6 Nov 2012 at 12:17

Eames said:
Does it have pit stops

Kind of, it has pit lanes that you drive through that fixes your car, think F-Zero

Gimpymoo · 6 Nov 2012 at 13:44

This seems really shallow?

Am I doing it wrong?

pearce64 · 12 Nov 2012 at 01:09

simple & fun to play -

Kosmiche · 12 Nov 2012 at 01:11

Gimpymoo said:
This seems really shallow?

Am I doing it wrong?

Its for the kids, did you expect to brake upon entering corners, clipping the apex and accelerating on corner exits?

chid76 · 12 Nov 2012 at 01:11

It's sooo unrealistic... I mean Bruno Senna was in 2nd place.. come on codies

Purdy · 12 Nov 2012 at 01:15

Could've been more like Mario Kart, looks nice though.

Skeeter · 12 Nov 2012 at 09:48

The difference between the PC and Console threads on here is lol. This is getting slated on the consoles, yet seems quite popular in here.

Personally its nowhere near as good as Mario Kart which means its missed the point.

Gimpymoo · 12 Nov 2012 at 10:23

Eames said:
Its for the kids, did you expect to brake

Fixed.

Skeeter said:
The difference between the PC and Console threads on here is lol. This is getting slated on the consoles, yet seems quite popular in here.

Hardly, just a few people saying it looks good and the artistic style is commendable.

The demo stinks from a gameplay perspective.

Purdy · 12 Nov 2012 at 10:26

Gimpymoo said:
Hardly, just a few people saying it looks good.

The demo stinks.

Did you get NBA 2k13 this year

?

Got it the other day but my CD key is invalid, been waiting 3 days for steam to reply now

Gimpymoo · 12 Nov 2012 at 10:32

Purdy said:
Did you get NBA 2k13 this year ?

Am waiting to see if multiplayer is fixed and see what other issues they have created.

I dont know if there are enough improvements to warrant their £24.99 asking price. Seems over priced in my opinion, especially as it is only $29.99.

If they fixed problems, I may have ponied up but from the previous 4 releases, what is broke at release generally stays that way so I am voting with my wallet.

Jono8 · 12 Nov 2012 at 10:37

Looks fun, but i would rather they devote dthe resources to fixing the mess that is F1 2012...

Gimpymoo · 12 Nov 2012 at 10:40

Jono8 said:
Looks fun, but i would rather they devote dthe resources to fixing the mess that is F1 2012...

Codemasters are very much a "release and done" company as in their games do not get a great deal of support post release, they put resources into the next years upgrade, sorry, full game.

barmyllama · 12 Nov 2012 at 12:50

Gimpymoo said:
Codemasters are very much a "release and done" company as in their games do not get a great deal of support post release, they put resources into the next years upgrade, sorry, full game.

Which is exactly why I only bought F1 2010 and non of the so called new ones. I only bought Dirt 3 because I got a Steam version for a fiver.

Wasted a fiver.