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Best F1 game, but not the best racing game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love racing games, and this is the best F1 game you can buy. It will deliver many hours of fun F1 racing for all racing fans as myself. EA Sports will never let you down with a poor quality game. I expect EA will improve the racing experience in future versions of the game, because in my opinion, the GT3, has taken the experience and fun of racing games to another level. So, my advise is, if you have the GT3...buy this game also, but if you have the money for one game, take first the GT3.

F1 Championship 2000

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. I watch F1 every season and it seems that just like in real racing the drivers do better if they are better in real life. Crashes are highly detailed but the only thing i dont like is after a crash u can be brought out of the race do to damage but the car u hit even if u hit the same car like a million times it stays in the race. I find it not fun that way. Otherwise i rate this game 4 stars for its outstanding crashes,graphics,multiplayer and performance. This is worth ur money. A great racing game and lots of action. You can also choose ur car and work on it such as moving ur front and rear wing up and down to provide better wind flow and more speed. If ur not sure rent this game you'll be suprised.

Pretty good for F1 fans, but there are better driving games.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this game when I first got my PS2. Now, I'm sure I liked this game more than most and forgave it for its flaws because I'm such a F1 fan. It is a fun game and the tracks are very realistic (when watching an F1 race I would know the track perfectly when watching an in-car shot after playing the track on this game). The graphics are nice as well. The crashes are a little absurd, but amusing nonetheless. I do say the Gran Turismo 3 is the best driving game on the PS2 or any other system.

(...)Anyway, if this gets through... Grand Prix 3 and the Thrustmaster on a PC makes for the best racing/driving sim game I've ever played. See my reviews on amazon for those items as well.

SOLID GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Good racing game!! Realistic!! Good graphics and good game play!! A Good Buy!!!

F1 takes actual skill to play well

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Read _Going Faster_ before you judge a game such as this.

Unlike GT3, which I also have and have completed, this game takes real driving skill, not always found in a game. The lines are there, but aren't obvious, and if you are not on the line, you will go slow, and get passed. The starts are very realistic -- spin the wheels and you can forget about the race, assuming you qualified near or at the top.

The handling is superb, and the feel of the game is very good. Unlike GT3, if you go bashing off of other cars in the corners, or anywhere for that matter, you can once again forget about the race.

The graphics are excellent, nothing gets in your way, and nothing is over done. If you are truly focused on the game, the only graphics that matter is the track directly ahead. It does have rear-view mirrors. Learn to use them -- they are realistic and don't take up a quarter of the screen. The weather creates very different scenarios. From dry to damp to wet to pouring, they are all there. There is no on/off weather.

The settings make enormous differences, if you are qualified to play the game, you will notice *major* differences between all of the settings.

Unfortunately, the average game player doesn't have any real-world skills to back up his/her personal ability assessment with video games, and games such as this suffer in their reviews.

Wait until you are able to beat the field by 1.5 seconds on *every* track, in the hardest setting, with damage, penalties, fuel use, tire wear, no assists of any kind (including arrows), and failures on. Win the Championship hands down. Then rate the game. It will be positive.

If you are looking for a fun bash-em-up racing game, save your money and stick with GT3 or some other racing toy game. This is the real deal, and can be extremely frustrating, particularly if you have never driven in real life. F1 teams use games such as this to get more familiar with new tracks. Doesn't that say enough?

My Opinion = Two Thumbs Down!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game to add to the racing fun of the GT3 bundle with my PS2. I was sorely dissapointed with F1 from the graphics to the game play. First I thought it was just GT3 overshadowing the game but after time I realized that in my opinion the game is not worth keeping. Sold it on Ebay for cheap.

Almost There!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

EA Sport did a fairly good job with this game. For a true F1 fan like myself I'm glad to have the opportunity to enjoy the difficulties of F1 racing without busting my bank account.

The game has some really cool feature. Great graphics, cool sounds, and multiple angles. In addition, the color scheme of each team is authentic to the driver's gloves and helmets. In short, it's visually gratifying.

It does have some shortcomes. The weather is either sunny or pouring. In addition, the AI opponents never make mistakes, and can take corners so fast at times that you'd definitely spin out trying to stay with them. In addition, the change in transmission settings do not seem to effect the top speed a great deal.

I do like this game, and I'm looking forward to the next one already. Although it's not perfect, but it's fun, and very realistic in many ways.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played F1 simulations of eidos interactive in my PC.I bought the PS2 mainly to play this F1 game. The graphics are very good and it seems weirdly real in cockpit view. Unfortunately graphics is the only plus for this game. The gameplay is really very disappointing.There is not even a REARVIEW mirrow..How am i supposed to block somebody trying to pass me ???? There is very little talk from the pit ..and i have to wait for the TV display (which appears occassionally)to know whether somebody's gaining on me or not ...or where my championship contender is!!!! Even psygonesis PSX game had better gameplay. If somebody is planning on buying this game..my advice is wait for F1 2002..maybe EAsports will come up with something better. ppl who are planning to buy PS2 for playing F1 sims..stick to ur PC.

GReat Game WHAts UP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

OK this game is the greatest. you people just have no imagination period...i am dissapointed in the players not the game keep on ps2 maker gamews

Neither Simulation nor Arcade

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is an average F1 game, at best. The problem for those of us looking for an F1 sim is that the game plays like an arcade. However, for those looking for an arcade game, this game may be a little too much "sim." It's like EA couldn't figure out what they wanted from this game.

A large positive are the very cool pit stop & stop-and-go penalty visuals. On the stop-and-go penalties, you can actually see the pit crew checking the car for damage w/o touching it (per FIA rules). Very cool. However, it would be nice if there is some variability to the duration of each pit stop, which would be more realistic. Also it would be nice if the game displayed a timer to show how long each pitstop takes.

However, there are many, many unrealistic characteristics in this game. First and foremost is the fact that the lap times in this game are usually ~7-12 SECONDS faster that what was possible during the 2000 season.

The braking, acceleration, and direction controls could be improved substantially if EA took advantage of the analog controls on the PS2 controller... unfortuantely braking and acceleration are basically either on (full brake/throttle) or off (no brake/throttle).

Also, you can't really play the game with full damage ability because the other cars compeletely lack any intelligence, so they continually run into you. Even the backmarkers run into you! In addition, it seems like your car will immediately have damage, but the computer driver will have no problems, and will keep going. Speaking of the computer drivers, on some corners, they practically come to a stop, while they take others at speeds which are physically impossible.

Some other problems: no yellow flags and/or safety car; weather isn't variable during a race; no commentary during qualifying or race (it would be great to have the SpeedVision commentators in this game, a la Madden football); can't compare sector times with other cars (in general qualifying needs substantial improvement); no pit conversations, frame rates drop quite a bit when there are many cars on track, etc, etc, etc.

Overall, a pretty poor effort by EA. Unfortunately, this is the only game in town (er... country). Hopefully EA will fix these problems with the next release, or perhaps Sony will import Formula One 2001 to the US.

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