It's the perfect solution to the projected racing line that's become ubiquitous in the racing genre, a feature that I feel is anathema to the simple pleasure of discovering a track on your own.
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Anthony Davidson, a driver whose mediocre F1 track record betrays the intelligent, methodical driving style that's held him in good stead as a test driver and in sports cars as well as Sky's analyst, provides animated and insightful guides to each of the 20 tracks. Some of F1 2012's best additions are smaller ones and, in one particular case, cruelly shoved to the side. As a way of catering for the casuals, it's smart and well integrated. It's a tutorial by another name, albeit an endearingly authentic one - stick around for a few hot laps once you've been told where the stop and go pedals are and what exactly some of those buttons on the wheel do, and you'll be up against the likes of Sam Bird, Alexander Rossi and other real-life F1 hopefuls. Where F1 2012 takes you first is a departure too, as you're placed directly into one of the young driver tests that have become a part of the sport in recent years. Again it's a great feature - providing you can find a like-minded player to see through a season with you.
Co-op Championship returns, and again is playable both split-screen and online. There's a premium feel to F1 2012, one that's befitting of a sport that breakfasts on champagne and caviar. A virtual showroom that highlights the cars in all their gleaming glory, the menus are now more Forza than Formula One, though it certainly works. Gone is the virtual paddock of the past two HD F1 games, on loan from Dirt and Grid, and in its place is something far more pleasing.
Judging from the front-end alone, F1 2012 is a radical departure. Last year's game was no worse, though it was only marginally better, a handful of extra multiplayer and some small aesthetic tweaks resulting in what felt like a minor update.
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F1 2012's foundations are certainly strong enough to help it in its cause: when Codemasters took over the license it delivered, in 2010, one of the finest F1 games for generations. And who knows - 30 years on and maybe the championship could still be won by an unconventional Finn whose sole win comes at the tail-end of the season.Ī vintage year for the sport, then, and one that's worthy of a standout tie-in game. Seven winners in as many races and a radical shuffling of the order has lent an air of unpredictability that's been absent in recent years it's as wild as anything the sport's offered up since Prost, Lauda and Rosberg duked it out in 1982.
F1 hasn't been short of some sparkling campaigns since it slowly awoke from its Schumacher slumber, but 2012's has been truly special.
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