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[abt]Formula 1 Game PC Detailed, Codemasters

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The last F1 game on PC was F1 Challenge 99-02 by EA Sports in 2003. It has been 6 long years. Sony had exclusive license to develop F1 games between 2003-2007 for which it paid $15 million. Thus while the PlayStation saw release of Formula 1 games, all other gaming devices were left wanting for a Formula 1 games all these years. At the end of 2007 Formula 1 demanded more money to renew its license, Sony said no. Enter Codemasters who picked up this license to add to their wide collection of racing games. After their recent successes with DIRT and GRID, and their long running and successful Colin McRae Rally series, Codemasters may just be the right people for the job.

The new F1 game will be using the EGOTech engine which was originally used in DIRT, enhanced for GRID and now will be enhanced for the new F1 game. So expect some brilliant visuals with great damage model.
The track surface module will provide unprecedented realism in the game.

Expect to see over every inch of the track, e.g. rubber from the tires, occasional stones, marbles, water (all the way from standing water through to a drying track) and all the associated properties of grip and heat, so for example running off the drying line in the wet will give you less grip and cool your tires.
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http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=4386

Oh man , its a good time to be a PC gamer. I'm getting excited !
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awesome
. Great finally, now I want GT4 and Forza on PC
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Sweet!!!
NICE!!!! all we need now is a mmo car nut game. man i miss motor city online so much.
=:)::.. forget that project torque crap. mco was a great mmo game the day that they launch something like it i will stop playing wow.
man i cannot wait for this. was actually talking to my roommate this morning about the immense lack of any PC F1
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Originally Posted by HowHardCanItBeView Post
awesome
. Great finally, now I want GT4 and Forza on PC
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QFT.

Forza/Forza 2 and the Gran Turismo series were some of the best in the racing game industry. Why won't they port to PC?! :swearing:
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Originally Posted by Drift0r View Post
QFT.

Forza/Forza 2 and the Gran Turismo series were some of the best in the racing game industry. Why won't they port to PC?! :swearing:
Maybe because the most realistic racing games already reside on the PC....
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Maybe because the most realistic racing games already reside on the PC....


I assume you are refering to GRID? If thats the case, its far from being realistic, though, more realistic than NFS and other racing games. Its not that realistic at all!
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Wow, finally!!!!

Have been waiting months to hear anything new about a new F1 game. Last time they mentioned it was like Spring of last year. Can't flippin wait!
Finally a F1 game on the PC. Cant wait for it.
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O M F G!!! FINALLY!!
F1 for PC again!
and to the news that its from the makers of GRID...



time to get a kick ass wheel and pedal setup


I had no idea it was !&@*^[email protected])!! Sony that was keeping me from f1 on the pc. I hate you Sony.
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This is epic. Sure buy for me.

this is the kinda thing PC gaming needs. More quality PC exclusives.

The sound of an F1 engine at high speeds is a thing of beauty, too...they couldn't have chosen a better grip racing franchise to make a game out of.

Now...to get it bundled with high-quality wheels...
I say MEH , forget F1 and give us our V8 SuperCars i want real racing or even
better add V8 SuperCars in with F1

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i havent played a good formula 1 game since 97
i think this will/should be very good on the GRID/DIRT/DIRT2 engine
wonder if they will add the other classes of open wheel racing aswell
like formula ford and F3 and such
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The sound of an F1 engine at high speeds is a thing of beauty, too...they couldn't have chosen a better grip racing franchise to make a game out of.

The sensation to hear the real thing live is astonishing, the smell in the air, the sound... Ah, dam i miss it.
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Is it just me or was this the only PS3 F1 game I could find?

Either way, what sheered me away from DiRT and GRID was it has too much arcade style gameplay into the game compared to the previous Colin McRae and Toca series, where these games had a nice feel of realism while still having that arcade feel. Let's see if they can actually keep up with their claim on this one though.

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-The game will be heavy on the sim elements for those who want it, along with all the structure and appeal that a more casual 'arcade' fan would expect. Codemasters realises that both camps are important to the success of game and both will get equal respect from them. Codeamsters realizes that the majority of sales are not in the sim area so the game will have plenty of options, modes, scaling and design cleverness for everyone else as well. More sales = more budget = better game for everyone.

-Tracks from GRID are not being recycled. They are all being built from scratch with the new, updated EGOtech in mind (which is much better than you've seen in DiRT and GRID) and will be fully researched, photographed, scanned, videoed etc. to ensure accuracy.

Let's also see how their PC specialist will deal with the game. Sick of all these crappy PC ports. It's like devs just don't care for the PC gamers.

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Now some good news for PC gamers battered with recent lazy console ports. All platforms have specialist groups working on them within the dev team pushing the hardware to its limits.
# Starforce copy protection system will not be used but the game will be running an on-line authentication system that most probably runs sections of non-time critical game code on our server. Not sure if this is better than the current copy protection nuisances like Securom, Rockstar Social Club App, time will tell.

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Originally Posted by aakar
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I assume you are refering to GRID? If thats the case, its far from being realistic, though, more realistic than NFS and other racing games. Its not that realistic at all!

No, GRID sucks...and I am disappointed they are using the GRID engine. As somebody said, the GTR series is one of the more realistic games and lets not forget my favorite, Live for Speed.

The one thing that these awesome PC games lack is the customizing and progressing through the game like Forza and Grand Turismo.

Has anybody played the F1 game on the PS3? The cars go crazy fast compared to GT5
, and I am sure they do in real life.
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Originally Posted by manolith
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NICE!!!! all we need now is a mmo car nut game. man i miss motor city online so much.
=:)::.. forget that project torque crap. mco was a great mmo game the day that they launch something like it i will stop playing wow.

Motor City Online was quite a cool game and idea at the time it came out.
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No, GRID sucks...and I am disappointed they are using the GRID engine. As somebody said, the GTR series is one of the more realistic games and lets not forget my favorite, Live for Speed.
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um...that's what I meant. Grid is less realistic then people give it credit for.
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Originally Posted by TaNgY
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I say MEH , forget F1 and give us our V8 SuperCars i want real racing or even
better add V8 SuperCars in with F1

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i havent played a good formula 1 game since 97
i think this will/should be very good on the GRID/DIRT/DIRT2 engine
wonder if they will add the other classes of open wheel racing aswell
like formula ford and F3 and such

have you played GRID? It has all those different classes including F3

I think (hope) this new game is F1 and F1 only with the ability to do full on SIM, or arcade variants (which it sounds like it does). I had all of the f1 sims thru the 90's into 2003 with the last one from EA (f1 2002 iirc) I was stuck playing that one until about a year ago when I built my sig rig and I had no game ports for my sidewinder setup (which was about 10 years old at that point lol). I wasnt gonna get a new wheel kit for such an outdated game, and I didnt have other racing games. When Grid came along I tried it and liked it (gamepad). Its fun but not even close to a good f1 sim imho (which its not meant to be). To hear that the makers of grid are doing a full-on F1 Sim...

I cracked a fat!
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