Poll: ***Official Formula One 2010 Thread***

What version of F1 2010 did you purchase

  • Steam / Digital Copy

    Votes: 225 57.8%

  • Retail Boxed Copy

    Votes: 164 42.2%
  • Total voters
    389
Just for those who did know:

Ian Webster, Community Manager for Codemasters
Due to the nature of the game, and its layers of licensed content, it will not be possible to make a cut-down, limited content sample that would serve as a demo for F1 in 2010 within our production deadlines.
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Getting seriously impatient for this game. Still waiting on Steam, but will probably stick with shopto so I can play the game earlier. Depends how much it is on Steam I guess. (although I have known Steam to release games a day or so earlier)
 
Can see Steam being full price or at least a fiver more expensive then most high street stores for the PC version, as steam is rarely cost effective for day one release games...

Steam is perhaps the biggest rip off merchants out there for fleecing the public on games, and then knock the price down in one off sales each week - to which we all then go crazy thinking we're getting a good deal.. Which it is kinda.. Steam is excellent for grabbing a game on sale and getting it there and then, and not having to worry about installing and DVD etc...

Anyhow, F1 2010 will be with us in approx 3 weeks now.. Getting closer and closer. Lets hope this is a cracking title, but I'm somehow thinking above all those developer vids and youtube vids we've seen, this will disappoint in areas...

i've a feeling this is Grid with F1 cars with 100% race distant slapped on for good measure, the live the driver theme is a nice idea though, but to be expected with an arcade game... I wait to be proved wrong...!! lol
 
iv-tecman said:
Anyhow, F1 2010 will be with us in approx 3 weeks now.. Getting closer and closer. Lets hope this is a cracking title, but I'm somehow thinking above all those developer vids and youtube vids we've seen, this will disappoint in areas...

i've a feeling this is Grid with F1 cars with 100% race distant slapped on for good measure, the live the driver theme is a nice idea though, but to be expected with an arcade game... I wait to be proved wrong...!! lol
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I feel the same. I suspect there will be lots of areas lacking. However, I will be glad to get a decent F1 game on the PC again. Hopefully then we get yearly updates with the features lacking from this years release.
 
Overlag said:
From what I've seen you can't setup the car, you just get set options so that's a negative?
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From what I've read each car is setup to be best performance for that track but you can tweak the settings to match you're own driving style or something like that..

You won't gain seconds with these changes, they are just to make it comfortable to how you drive, and if using a pad or a wheel etc...

It is limited, and this tells me that I'm 99% sure this is just an arcade racer with the look and feel of F1, but its Grid F1. Not totally bad, Grid was a fine game, but those looking for GP4 or rfactor are going to be disappointed I feel...

Still as mentioned, its a modern F1 game, better then what we've been getting and it'll be fun. enjoy it for what it is, hopefully in a few years someone will release a full on F1 game that can match GP4 for physics etc..
 
I've been wondering if the tracks will change from year to year depending on configuration. Like Bahrain this year was a longer version but for 2011 it'll go back to the original layout. Will F1 2010 support this? Same thing for Silverstone and Spa which have changed for this year.
 
Overlag said:
From what I've seen you can't setup the car, you just get set options so that's a negative?
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From what we have seen in the last three videos, you can make basic changes to things like gear ratios, suspension setups etc. You don't HAVE to do it, but if you get the setup right it should gain you some pace. Like Codemasters have said, there are only so many things you can change at a race anyway - although they have simplified this to some extent.

This will be closer to an arcade racer than a simulation, there is no doubt. But there will be setup changes. Anyway, for those who want a simulation, there is rfactor which the majority do not want. Grid and Dirt have been excellent, so I have high hopes for this. If you don't like those games, it is unlikely you will like F1 2010.

MarcLister said:
I've been wondering if the tracks will change from year to year depending on configuration. Like Bahrain this year was a longer version but for 2011 it'll go back to the original layout. Will F1 2010 support this? Same thing for Silverstone and Spa which have changed for this year.
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Apparently so. It will be accurate to the 2010 season. We can only assume there will be yearly updates, but who knows. Unless someone has a link?
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Apparently so. It will be accurate to the 2010 season. We can only assume there will be yearly updates, but who knows. Unless someone has a link?
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Yeah I'm expecting the tracks to be to the 2010 layouts but I'm wondering if for the 2011 season onwards any known track changes will automatically take effect. I can't see Codemasters doing a yearly update pack; they'd surely just release an F1 2011 game? Changes in teams and team names, new drivers in the sport, others retiring or moving to new teams etc as well as new car graphics and "improvements" to justify a new game. Kind of like SI and Football Manager. They could just release one game every 4 years and release 3 update packs for it. Instead they release a new game every year.
 
I've tried rFactor and GTR 2 with an xbox 360 joypad ... it's pure filth. Clearly a simulator made for hardcore sim lovers.

Dirt 2 and Grid were great fun - this is what I want my F1 2010 to be like - not exactly like it, but similar. :)

After watching P1 and P2 I want this game NAOW !! :(
 
As long as the car feels good, you know, like your driving an R3 car in Forza. They were controllable but you still had to feather the throttle or risk binning it in the wall. The idea about update packs is a good one. Livery and track updates would be good but you know that's definitely not going to happen. As long as they keep it coming to PC then all is good. :)
 
I too tried rFactor with a PS3 pad emulated as a 360 controller. Its not that good, rFactor is certainly better suited to a wheel and pedals, its just the nature of the game.

Grand Prix 4 is a game you can setup and control well with a gamepad, especially if your pad has got triggers which can act as analogue throttle and brake, if F1 2010 can behave well with a pad then it won’t be too bad. DiRT 2 was very playable with a gamepad.

Still saying this, F1 2010 will have the edge above all other F1 games out there for reasons of –

It’s the 2010 season without needing to mod an existing F1 game
Its cross platform
It has realistic looking visuals – even for xbox360, all vids I’ve seen show some fantastic graphics…
Pit rules from 2010, full pit and engineers etc in virtualisation, made to feel as if they are actually guiding you out the pit etc
Career modes such as GP mode or live the driver mode
Easy accessibility – everyone should be able to jump into an F1 seat and play a race

What some are saying is that this might be a return to roots for codemasters. It’ll be toca 1 released back in oooh 1994? 1995? Not quite a sim, not really a full arcade game either, I made the term up sometime ago, I called F1 2010 a simulcader. Half sim half arcade, but I still feel it’ll veer more towards arcade…

I’m still waiting for PS3 footage, the PS3 version isn’t being widely shown which makes me wonder, has it not scaled well to PS3. A PS3 port from xbox360 rarely does well.. Normally reduced resolution, reduced fps and un-forgivable screen tearing…
 
I don't want a full on sim, in fact I would rather it be a bit more arcady. Really enjoyed Dirt2 but found Grid incomprehensively hard, even on the easiest settings. I don't want to race to perfection, I want to race to have fun and Grid was just too much like hard work.
 
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